Official IELTS Practice Materials 2 with DVD - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Official IELTS Practice Materials 2 with DVD write by Cambridge ESOL. This book was released on 2010-07. Official IELTS Practice Materials 2 with DVD available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DVD.
World Report on Violence and Health
World Report on Violence and Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Report on Violence and Health write by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2002. World Report on Violence and Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This report is part of WHO's response to the 49th World Health Assembly held in 1996 which adopted a resolution declaring violence a major and growing public health problem across the world. It is aimed largely at researchers and practitioners including health care workers, social workers, educators and law enforcement officials.
The UK-Nigeria Remittance Corridor
The UK-Nigeria Remittance Corridor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The UK-Nigeria Remittance Corridor write by Raúl Hernández-Coss. This book was released on 2007-01-01. The UK-Nigeria Remittance Corridor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study is the first research work on remittances conducted in Nigeria and reveals the actual state of its remittance market. The report describes how United Kingdom residents of Nigerian origin transfer remittances home and how the funds are distributed to their beneficiaries in Nigeria. The review presents the remittance industry conditions existing in the UKNigeria remittance corridor at the origination and distribution stages of the transactions, and the intermediaries who facilitate the transfers. The report makes conclusions and compares these main findings with lessons from other corridors. The UK-Nigeria remittance corridor has an equal dominance of formal and informal remittance intermediaries. Although several formal financial institutions for transferring money exist in the UK, many people choose to send money informally. More collaboration between the UK and Nigeria is necessary to develop the remittance market, to encourage the use of formal channels, and to enhance the development potential. Among its benefits, the remittance country partnership (RCP) between UK and Nigeria aims to reduce the cost of remittance transfers. The Nigerian government is engaging its diaspora to help spur economic growth. This report recommends that each government focus on improving data collection at its end of the corridor and do more research to provide its policymakers and its private sector with accurate information.
Ajapa the Tortoise
Ajapa the Tortoise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ajapa the Tortoise write by Margaret Baumann. This book was released on 2012-06-11. Ajapa the Tortoise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Long before people could turn to books for instruction and amusement, they relied upon storytellers for answers to their questions about life. Africa boasts a particularly rich oral tradition, in which the griot — village historian — preserved and passed along cultural beliefs and experiences from one generation to the next. This collection of 30 timeless fables comes from the storytellers of Nigeria, whose memorable narratives tell of promises kept and broken, virtue rewarded, and treachery punished. Ajapa the Tortoise — a trickster, or animal with human qualities — makes frequent appearances among the colorful cast of talking animals. In "Tortoise Goes Wooing," he learns a valuable lesson in friendship and sharing. Ajapa's further adventures describe how, among other things, he became a chief, acquired all of the world's wisdom, saved the king, tricked the lion, and came to be bald. Recounted in simple but evocative language, these ancient tales continue to enchant readers and listeners of all ages.
Hotel Trópico
Hotel Trópico - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hotel Trópico write by Jerry Dávila. This book was released on 2010-08-03. Hotel Trópico available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled to Africa on Brazil’s behalf. Jerry Dávila analyzes how their actions were shaped by ideas of Brazil as an emerging world power, ready to expand its sphere of influence; of Africa as the natural place to assert that influence, given its historical slave-trade ties to Brazil; and of twentieth-century Brazil as a “racial democracy,” a uniquely harmonious mix of races and cultures. While the experiences of Brazilian policymakers and diplomats in Africa reflected the logic of racial democracy, they also exposed ruptures in this interpretation of Brazilian identity. Did Brazil share a “lusotropical” identity with Portugal and its African colonies, so that it was bound to support Portuguese colonialism at the expense of Brazil’s ties with African nations? Or was Brazil a country of “Africans of every color,” compelled to support decolonization in its role as a natural leader in the South Atlantic? Drawing on interviews with retired Brazilian diplomats and intellectuals, Dávila shows the Brazilian belief in racial democracy to be about not only race but also Portuguese ethnicity.
