Agents of Change: Studies on the Policy Environment for Small Enterprise in Africa

Business & Money

IDRC Books

Smoke and Mirrors provides a detailed account of Canada’s continuing battle against the devastating effects of cigarettes. As an historical analysis, it consistently takes us behind the scenes in the tobacco war and is sure to interest Southern stakeholders who wish to learn from the Canadian experience. Author Rob Cunningham, lawyer, activist, and policy analyst for the Canadian Cancer Society, has produced a seminal reference that exposes the truth behind the century-old Canadian tobacco war.

Smoke and Mirrors: The Canadian Tobacco War

Medical Books

Cunningham, Rob

Administration & Medicine Economics

Return to Resistance

Engineering & Transportation

Robinson, R.

Engineering

For indigenous peoples’ groups, activists and policymakers in intellectual property, and all those concerned with the preservation of our planet’s biological and cultural diversity, Beyond Intellectual Property provides an invaluable and eye-opening look into one of the most provocative and explosive issues of this century and likely the next: the patenting of life.

Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Resource Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

DUTFIELD, GRAHAM

Posey, Darrell A.

Economics

Library and information sciences are experiencing a period of radical change. Today, just as businesses must compete for survival, growth, and market space, librarians and information professionals must assume a more proactive role to cope with increasing competition. This new demand presents a number of unanswered questions. What is the nature of this competition? How can libraries attract alternate sources of funding when public sponsorship and government spending are at a low ebb? What are some strategies for expanding the customer base and fulfilling customer requirements and expectations? And, finally, what is preventing librarians and information professionals from developing successful marketing strategies? Marketing Information Products and Services responds to these questions. This comprehensive manual describes the fundamentals of marketing in the context of library and information sciences, presents various options for raising money, offers tips and techniques for better service management, and provides a step-by-step approach to developing marketing strategies.

Marketing Information Products and Services: A Primer for Librarians and Information Professionals

Management & Leadership

This guided book zeros in on what indigenous knowledge can contribute to a sustainable development strategy -- one that accounts for the potential of the local environment and the experience and wisdom of the indigenous population. It will help to improve the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of any program of research and will appeal to both the seasoned development professional and the novice or student just beginning a research career.

Working with Indigenous Knowledge: A Guide for Researchers

Grenier, Louise

This is the first book to present the African perspective on the Bretton Woods approach to structural adjustment, and it does so with the input and support of top economists and scholars from every corner of Africa. The authors use as background their own extensive experience and a collection of 30 individual studies to summarize this African perspective and articulate a path for the future. They underscore the need to be sensitive to each country’s unique history and current condition. They argue for a broader policy agenda and for a much more active role for the state within what is largely a market economy. Finally, they stress that Africa must, and can, compete in an increasingly globalized world and, perhaps most importantly, that Africans must assume the leading role in defining the continent’s development agenda.

Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustment

The end of the Cold War was to usher in a new era of international peace and security. Instead, new types of conflicts have emerged and the international community has had to react quickly. New threats to peace have been countered with varying doses of peacemaking, peacekeeping, and, today, peace-building. This newest approach --- peace-building --- recognizes that the sources of violent conflict are complex and that human security and international stability will only be achieved by integrating political, military, and development efforts. Canada and Missions for Peace explores Canada's involvement in recent international efforts to resolve violent conflicts in Nicaragua, Cambodia, and Somalia. It examines the complex interface between foreign policy, international security, and international development. In doing so, this book joins the ever-growing body of scholarship on the new peace-building agenda, offering a unique vantage point. Perhaps it is too early to tell if a concern for international security can be combined with a concern for human security and well-being to form a new peace-building "architecture." The lessons and insight contained in Canada and Missions for Peace, however, will bring this vision into clearer focus.

Canada and Missions for Peace: Lessons from Nicaragua, Cambodia, and Somalia

Politics & Social Sciences

Wirick, Gregory

Politics & Government

Do you know if your organization is performing efficiently? If it isn't, do you know why? This guidebook presents an innovative and thoroughly tested model for organizational self-assessment. The tools and tips in Enhancing Organizational Performance go beyond measuring the impact of programs, products, and services. They integrate techniques of formative assessment, in which the assessment team becomes involved in helping its organization become more effective in meeting its goals. The tools and techniques are flexible, and the model can be adapted to any type or size of organization. Worksheets and hands-on exercises are included. The book will be of use to any organization that is initiating a process of self-assessment, internal change, or strategic planning. It will particularly appeal to heads and staff of research and non-profit organizations, university administrators, staff of research-granting agencies, and academics and professionals in organizational development and evaluation.

Enhancing Organizational Performance: A Toolbox for Self-Assessment

Anderson, Gary

Carden, Fred

Lusthaus, Charles

Adrien, Marie-Hélène

Finance

Jorge Nef responds to one of the most pressing intellectual challenges of the post-Cold War era: the search for an analytical framework that will help us understand this turbulent and chaotic period in human history. His lucid and visionary analysis rests on the concept of mutual vulnerability: that in an increasingly interdependent world, global security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. This second edition includes new analyses of the economic crisis in Asia, the transformation of the G-7 into the G-8, the easing of the debt crisis, and Soros’ critique of the New World Order. Data and sources are also updated, as are the discussions of conflicts in Africa, the former Yugoslavia, and central Asia.

Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability: The Global Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment

Nef, Jorge

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