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No Condition Permanent

No Condition Permanent

Ian Smillie

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Practical Action Publishing
Año de edición:
1986
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Estudios del desarrollo
ISBN:
9780946688326
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The struggles and successes in achieving acceptance of new, small-scale technologies in Ghana.Ian Smilie has worked at Tufts and Tulane Universities and as a development consultant with many Canadian, American and European organizations. He served on a UN Security Council Expert Panel examining the relationship between diamonds and weapons in West Africa, and he helped develop the 48-government ’Kimberley Process,’ a global certification system to halt the traffic in conflict diamonds.

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