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Water Governance Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Between Myth and Reality

By: Joao Mutondo,Stefano Farolfi,Ariel Dinar

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Water Governance Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Between Myth and Reality

By: Joao Mutondo,Stefano Farolfi,Ariel Dinar

This book is about the process of water management decentralization in African countries, which is seen as a means of advancing river basin management at the lowest appropriate level. There are very different stages of implementing decentralization in practice. This called for research aiming to understand the following questions: (i) why do some water agencies succeed more than others? (ii) What are the variables involved in such reform process? (iii) which variables have a positive or a negative impact on the implementation of decentralization processes? (iv) Which variables could be affected by policy interventions, and how? This study aimed to answer these questions through the following objectives: (i) analyze the factors that have potentially affected the results of decentralization process in SSA basins, and (ii) analyze the performance of decentralization process in SSA basins. Qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. The main findings are that water scarcity is a major stimulus to reform; water user associations, if not well prepared and trained, may deter the decentralization process; and being part of an existing treaty over an international basin helps foster the process. Conditions improving decentralization performance include: scarcity of water resources, longer period of implementation, bottom-up creation, and appropriate budgetary support.

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Water Governance Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Between Myth and Reality

By: Joao Mutondo,Stefano Farolfi,Ariel Dinar

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Between Myth and Reality

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The Tragedy of Fidel Castro

By: Joao Cerqueira,João Cerqueira

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The Tragedy of Fidel Castro

By: Joao Cerqueira,João Cerqueira

When God receives a request from Fátima to help prevent a war between Fidel Castro and JFK, he asks his son, Jesus, to return to Earth and diffuse the conflict. On his island, Fidel Castro faces protests on the streets and realizes that he is about to be overthrown. Alone, surrounded, and aware that the end is fast approaching, he plays his last card. Meanwhile, Christ arrives on Earth and teams up with Fátima, who is convinced she can create a miracle to avoid the final battle between JFK and Fidel Castro and save the world as we know it. At the end, something really extraordinary happens! Humorous, rich with metaphor, and refreshingly imaginative, The Tragedy of Fidel Castro was chosen as the book-of-the-month and book-of-the-year by Os Meus Livros magazine. "Joao Cerqueira's Tragedy of Fidel Castro is a phantasmagoric odyssey through a highly imaginative prose universe of discovery and inquest. It's a magic realism hybrid of sacrificial lambs and Revolution, capitalistic decadence, and celestial consequence--in a dimension where the cogs of time got jammed. I expect that this rich and unique narrative voice will illuminate a phosphorescent trajectory in the future annals of the New Millennial World Lit!" - Mark Spitzer - Toad Suck Review Editor, Professor of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas "a smart, energetic and funny piece of writing." - Bethany Gibson, Fiction Editor of Goose Lane Editions "Brilliant satire, playfully serious [...] do not waste even a single paragraph" - Rita Bonet, Os Meus Livros "João Cerqueira rewrote history, and did so with great inspiration!" - Cita-Livros "João Cerqueira shows a great imagination and a sense of humor far from innocent [...]" - Blogue Bela Lugosi is Dead "In my opinion there was only one Portuguese novel that had all the conditions to win the style of magical realism: The Tragedy of Fidel Castro" - Blog Fanzine Tertuliando "an imaginative author who masters metaphorical discourse and who can debate on national and international events, as well as both sacred and profane figures'' Livros & Leituras.

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Greenleaf Book Group

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1938416163

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The Devastation of Silence

By: Joâo Reis

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The Devastation of Silence

By: Joâo Reis

Like Louis-Ferdinand Céline meets Larry David The nights were terrible, during the day we were occupied, but at night we got to thinking, picturing food, our houses, food again, painful memories from our childhoods--that abominable era--would mix with images of food and our torture would grow and grow, I recalled my impotence before the plate I was ordered to clean, the impossibility of choice in a world into which I had been thrust unwillingly, war was indeed an extension of the torture of being born . . . Set during the difficult era of the Great War, The Silence Devastation is the story of a captain in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps who, with no documents showing his rank, finds himself in a German prison camp forced to share the circumstances of his poorer countrymen. He is hungry, constantly plagued by the sound of incessant detonations--and trying to finish his oral account of a strange story about a German scientist and voice recordings. In all this, he must seek meaning in his observations, his dreams, and, above all, silence.

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Water Governance Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Water Governance Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Water Governance Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Water Governance Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Tragedy of Fidel Castro

The Tragedy of Fidel Castro

The Devastation of Silence

The Devastation of Silence

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