Author: Ian MonroePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557335604
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Author: John William SmithThe State of World Rural Poverty
Author: Idriss JazairyPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814737544
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
Despite almost four decades and billions of dollars in development activities, we are barely in a position to track the changing dynamics of poverty or to define with conviction the processes that entrap the poor in their misery. Accounting for about 90% of global poverty, rural poverty, through transmigration, is also a main contributor to urban poverty. It is in the rural areas of the world where poverty is most severe in human terms, where the hunger, hopelessness, hardship, and despair commonly associated with entrenched poverty are most pronounced, where basic health services, sanitation, educational opportunities, and other common amenities are most lacking. The alleviation of rural poverty is therefore tantamount to the alleviation of global poverty in its entirety. The State of World Rural Poverty offers the first comprehensive look at the economic conditions and prospects of the world's rural poor.
Household stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol
Author: Rachel Harriette BuskPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The book is a compilation of traditional myths and legends from Tyrol, a historical region in the Alps spanning Northern Italy and western Austria. Among the fascinating stories included are 'Klein-Else', 'The Two Caskets', 'St. Peter's Three Loaves', and 'Prince Radpot'.
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Author: Aboriginal Customary Law: A Source of Common Law Title to Land
Author: Ulla SecherPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1782253769
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Described as 'ground-breaking' in Kent McNeil's Foreword, this book develops an alternative approach to conventional Aboriginal title doctrine. It explains that aboriginal customary law can be a source of common law title to land in former British colonies, whether they were acquired by settlement or by conquest or cession from another colonising power. The doctrine of Common Law Aboriginal Customary Title provides a coherent approach to the source, content, proof and protection of Aboriginal land rights which overcomes problems arising from the law as currently understood and leads to more just results. The doctrine's applicability in Australia, Canada and South Africa is specifically demonstrated. While the jurisprudential underpinnings for the doctrine are consistent with fundamental common law principles, the author explains that the Australian High Court's decision in Mabo provides a broader basis for the doctrine: a broader basis which is consistent with a re-evaluation of case-law from former British colonies in Africa, as well as from the United States, New Zealand and Canada. In this context, the book proffers a reconceptualisation of the Crown's title to land in former colonies and a reassessment of conventional doctrines, including the doctrine of tenure and the doctrine of continuity. 'With rare exceptions ... the existing literature does not probe as deeply or question fundamental assumptions as thoroughly as Dr Secher does in her research. She goes to the root of the conceptual problems around the legal nature of Indigenous land rights and their vulnerability to extinguishment in the former colonial empire of the Crown. This book is a formidable contribution that I expect will be influential in shifting legal thinking on Indigenous land rights in progressive new directions.' From the Foreword by Professor Kent McNeil (to read the Foreword please click on the 'sample chapter' link).
Author: John Stuart Mill