The Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile Jean Pisani-FerryThe Rise and Fall of the Privatized Pension System in Chile analyses the Chilean experience with a privatised pension system and examines its impact on pension levels for the ageing population, differences in benefits across different groups, impact on local capital markets, savings redistribution to big corporations and foreign countries, and high profit rates for pension fund managing companies.
we must also cut them down and start using wood as a construction material
the focal point of the interviews is to position the filmmaker within the social or political context of their respective country
This fascinating book about Belfast in the middle of the nineteenth century looks at how and why Ireland’s most prosperous and industrialized town began to tear itself apart
This book examines the cultural impact of colonialism on both colonizer and colonized via analysis of the domestic interiors and public spaces of empire within the Indian Subcontinent
Club of Rome)
'Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe' examines the ways in which post-Communist societies have sought to make sense of Communist-era collaboration
Beyond Hegemony investigates the authoritarianism and breakdown of those state socialist governments in Russia and elsewhere which claim to put Marx’s ideas on democracy and equality into practice
including Salman Rushdie
examining these global concerns from a local perspective
This book shows how the international activities of civic associations in the 1960s can help us to understand the impact of decolonisation on the British public’s sense of international responsibility
and personal responses to its titular question
We never tired of their tales
