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Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Reinventing Democracy in BrazilTed G. Goertzel Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s personal trajectory is unquestionably intertwined with the main intellectual and political debates in Brazil (and Latin America) in the second half of the twentieth century.
Cardoso began his career struggling to apply Marxist ideas to political realities, and he continues to acknowledge the Marxist element that persists in his thinking. Nevertheless, since his More > | |
Fields of Fig and Olive: Ameera and Other Stories of the Middle EastKathryn K. Abdul-Baki Abdul-Baki’s stories, set in Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, and Jerusalem, explore the themes of young women coming of age, the effects of civil war, and differences between East and West. More > | |
Fieldwork in Developing CountriesStephen Devereux and John Hoddinott, editors Practical, realistic, and based on firsthand experiences, this sorely needed resource addresses theoretical concerns at the same time that it reflects the important fact that the context within which fieldwork is conducted is absolutely integral to the research process.
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Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry’s Armed Resistance to the Nazis, 1941–1945Dov Levin, translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Kohn and Dina Cohen Fighting Back chronicles the activities of the Lithuanian Jews who fought against the Nazis—in the Soviet army, in the forests, in the ghettos of Vilna, Kovno, Shavli, and Svencian, and even in the concentration camps. Dov Levin, a member of the Kovno ghetto underground and then a fighter with the Lithuanian partisans, brings both meticulous scholarship and his own personal experience to More > | ![]() |
Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries: Strategies and AnalysisBertram I. Spector, editor In stark contrast to standard holistic studies of corruption, Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries argues that examining the issue through the lens of nine key development sectors—education, agriculture, energy, environment, health, justice, private business, political parties and public finance—-will help us to understand the problem realistically and identify concrete More > | ![]() |
Fighting Poverty: The Development-Employment LinkRizwanul Islam, editor While it has become abundantly clear that neither overall economic growth nor targeted microlevel interventions inevitably reduce poverty in developing countries, much of the development literature continues to focus on these two approaches. Exploring a third, and more promising, avenue, Fighting Poverty offers a systematic analysis of the link between employment and pro-poor economic growth.
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Finally . . . Us: Contemporary Black Brazilian Women WritersMiriam Alves, editor and translated by Carolyn Richardson Durham This is the first time that the literary works of contemporary Afro-Brazilian women have been compiled presenting a comprehensive vision of what it means to be both black and female in Brazil.
Though the canon of Brazilian literature is rich in Afro-Brazilian female characters, until recently it has included only a handful of Afro-Brazilian women writers, sprinkled across the centuries. The More > | ![]() |
Financial Promise for the Poor: How Groups Build MicrosavingsKim Wilson, Malcolm Harper, and Matthew Griffith, editors Development scholars, policymakers, and practitioners have begun sorting through the hype of microfinance to identify where and how top-down loans might fit into broader development efforts. To many, the answer involves shifting focus to another financial service: savings. Serving as a strong and perhaps more effective tool than microcredit, microsavings is quickly becoming a lauded More > | ![]() |
Finding a Way in International Development: Options for Ethical and Effective WorkSarah Parkinson Despite the labyrinthine bureaucracies, frustrating inefficiencies, and disorienting complexities of the "development business," many individuals and groups find their way through and contribute to positive change. How do they do it? What ethical and practical dilemmas do they face, and what strategies do they find most effective for overcoming them? Sarah Parkinson draws on the More > | ![]() |
Fire: Six Writers from Angola, Mozambique and Cape VerdeDonald Burness Because of, and at times in spite of, the distinct quality of Portuguese colonial policy, an original and vibrant lusophone literature exists today in Africa. Burness introduces the too-little- known work of Angola’s Luandino Viera, Agostinho Neto, Geraldo Bessa Victor, and Mario Antonio, Cape Verde’s Baltasar Lopes, and Mozambique’s Luis Bernardo Honwana. More > |