Ce livre retrace l'évolution du mouvement agraire depuis les années 1970 en dégageant quatre phases ou dynamiques distinctes : autogestion, réclamation, résistance et autodétermination. Dans la première, les paysans luttent principalement pour la terre à travers la colonisation des terres publiques et l'occupation des terres de grands propriétaires. Dans la deuxième, ils se mobilisent pour revendiquer des investissements publics dans la...

Get the Summary of Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Yuval Noah Harari's 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is a probing and visionary investigation into today's most urgent issues as we move into the uncharted territory of the future. As technology advances faster than our understanding of it, hacking becomes a tactic of war, and the...

Los autores de este libro decidieron investigar cómo se vive la felicidad en los extremos sociales del Perú y qué variables la afectan. Es así que el objeto de estudio de este libro se reduce a dos grupos muy delimitados de peruanos: los habitantes de los cinco distritos más pobres y de los cinco distritos más ricos, según una escala de pobreza monetaria del INEI. Entre estos dos Perúes existen no solo distancias monetarias sino también geográficas,...

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. socialism, right vs. left, indigenous vs. mestizo,...

Centrada en la industria papelera, esta publicación es fruto de la colaboración entre la Universitat de València y el Instituto de Estudios Comarcales Hoya de Buñol-Chiva. Con este estudio, Federico Verdet se plantea un doble objetivo: dar una visión multisectorial de la industria papelera y sintetizar la historia de la industria del papel en el conjunto del País Valenciano. Verdet presenta su obra desde los dos componentes tradicionales, el...

The devaluation of the CFA franc and the early 90s mark the second wave of privatizations recommended by international financial institutions. The transition from a system of "social goals" to that of private capital becomes more and more evident. From the peoples' point of view, the ongoing reforms imposed from outside often do not take into account the specific situation of each country. Therefore, the question posed by privatization is: how can...

Development-induced displacements may lead to loss of land, livelihoods, shelter, property, and access to social facilities, natural resources and cultural heritage, if the affected people are not cushioned by appropriate compensation and social support mechanisms, as well as integrated rehabilitation programmes to mitigate negative impact. As a result, communities often resist relocations and in some instances the emerging conflicts between the responsible...

Poverty is stubborn. Since World War II an estimated 2.3 trillion dollars has been spent on international aid, yet half of the population of the world survives on less than on ten dollars a day. In fact, one billion people, eek out a living on less than one dollar a day and 22,000 children die every day from the effects of poverty. Despite the best efforts of governments, the U.N., NGO's, nonprofits, and private enterprise, the numbers of poor are...

People around the world are suffering of issues we in rich countries consider banal. Many of the challenges facing tens of millions of people daily could be solved with relative ease. But we lack will. There are no short term economic gains. Besides, giving poor countries a slice of the pie reduces the size of our slice, right? Wrong. The pie grows.

International development is a contested territory. As emergencies grow in number and scale, international aid is increasingly unable to respond to the desperate need arising from them. In spite of the objectives established by the United Nations in 2000, global poverty persists, and worse still, the gap between "North" and "South" is widening nearly everywhere. Meanwhile, the challenges posed by climate change have been turning everything upside...