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The rise of global civil society : building communities and nations from the bottom up /
Global news is generally bad news. On the surface, the story is about war, poverty, ethnic and sectarian strife. Democracy movements advanced by the U.S. government seem to be stalled or even reversed. Yet just below the surface, more hopeful trends are brewing. A new global awareness of the people...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Encounter Books,
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Global news is generally bad news. On the surface, the story is about war, poverty, ethnic and sectarian strife. Democracy movements advanced by the U.S. government seem to be stalled or even reversed. Yet just below the surface, more hopeful trends are brewing. A new global awareness of the people at "the bottom of the pyramid" is summoning forth an unprecedented response to human need and suffering. It involves a shift from vertical to horizontal power that official aid agencies are only beginning to comprehend. Whereas twenty-five years ago, government aid accounted for 70 percent of all Am. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781594032943 1594032947 1282487787 9781282487789 9786612487781 661248778X |