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Regional Development Banks in Comparison

Banking Strategies versus Development Goals

By: Ruth Ben-Artzi

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Regional Development Banks in Comparison

Banking Strategies versus Development Goals

By: Ruth Ben-Artzi

In a study contributing to international relations and international political economy theory, the author raises substantive issues relating to aid, development, international relations and globalization. Focusing on the dichotomy between their banking and development roles, we learn that regional development banks are potentially critical catalysts in the fight against poverty, even with their institutional limitations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107163439

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9781107163430

Jerusalem and Its Environs

Quarters, Neighborhoods, Villages, 1800-1948

By: Ruth Kark,Michal Oren-Nordheim

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Jerusalem and Its Environs

Quarters, Neighborhoods, Villages, 1800-1948

By: Ruth Kark,Michal Oren-Nordheim

It covers the construction of institutional complexes, the introduction of significant changes in Jerusalem's administration, the creation of new planning frameworks, the planning of new settlements around the city, the concentration of large tracts of agricultural land by Jerusalem's Arab effendis, and the development of the Arab and Jewish villages in the rural hinterland."--BOOK JACKET.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814329098

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9780814329092

Life in Citations

Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture

By: Ruth Tsoffar

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Life in Citations

Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture

By: Ruth Tsoffar

In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture, Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in Citations provides a close reading of these narratives, along with works by contemporary Hebrew Israeli artists that respond to them. Together they read as a modern commentary on life with text, or even life under the rule of its verses, to answer questions like How can we explain the fascination and intense identification of Israelis with the Bible? What does it mean to live in such close proximity with the Bible, and What kind of story can such a life tell?

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248

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Routledge

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1000477894

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9781000477894

American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914

By: Ruth Kark

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American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914

By: Ruth Kark

This volume provides new insights into the role of U.S. consuls in the Ottoman Middle East in the special context of the Holy Land. The motivations and functioning of the American consuls in Jerusalem, and of the consular agents in Jaffa and Haifa, are analyzed as part of the US diplomatic and consular activity throughout the world, and of Western involvement in the Ottoman Empire and in Palestine during the century preceding World War I. The processes of cultural, demographic, economic, environmental, and settlement change and the contribution of the US consuls and American settlers to development of and modernization of Palestine are discussed. Based on primary archival sources such facets as the role of consuls regarding the use of extraterritorial privileges, Western religious and cultural penetration, control of land and land purchase, non-Muslim settlement, judicial systems, and technological innovations are considered from American, Ottoman, and local viewpoints.

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398

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Wayne State University Press

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0814325238

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9780814325230

The Changing Landscape of a Utopia

The Landscape and Gardens of the Kibbutz : Past and Present

By: Shmuel Burmil,Ruth Enis

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The Changing Landscape of a Utopia

The Landscape and Gardens of the Kibbutz : Past and Present

By: Shmuel Burmil,Ruth Enis

This book appears on the 100-year celebration of the kibbutz movement, a century since the establishment of the first kibbutz, Deganya (Alef) in 1910. The kibbutz started as a farming community, and over the years has defined and developed its unique ideology of social and economic aspects of self-rule, equality, mutual responsibility, and common ownership of the means of production. The kibbutz, that some define as an utopian community, has gradually developed into a community with diverse means of production, including leading international industries. The book describes the development of the unique system of zoning, with landscape and gardens that strongly reflect the ideology. This uniqueness was developed while rooted in the Western international tradition of landscape architecture, with planners and designers educated mainly in central Europe. The book describes the different periods and styles in the development of the kibbutz landscape, as well as some of the main landscape issues and elements such as the dominant tree species and the circle. It also describes in detail some of the key people involved in the development of the kibbutz landscape and gardens - landscape gardeners, landscape architects, and kibbutz gardeners. The dramatic political and economic changes that occurred in Israel have not bypassed the kibbutz, for they caused changes in kibbutz ideology and the community's social and economic structures. These changes and the changes that they have caused and are still causing in the kibbutz landscape are carefully detailed in the last chapter. The dramatic changes in the kibbutz landscape have also led to a discussion of of the need for landscape conservation as well, and some examples are described.

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Wernersche

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3884622846

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9783884622841

Regional Development Banks in Comparison

Banking Strategies versus Development Goals

By: Ruth Ben-Artzi

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Regional Development Banks in Comparison

Banking Strategies versus Development Goals

By: Ruth Ben-Artzi

In a study that contributes to international relations and international political economy theory, Ruth Ben-Artzi raises substantive issues relating to aid, development, international relations and globalization. Regional development banks (RDBs), designed by politicians and economists to maneuver through labyrinths of economic, social, and political development, possess the potential to be central players in the long-term planning involved in healing and advancing poverty-plagued regions. However, RDBs in particular have received little attention. With a systematic analysis comparing four central regional development banks, this book explores why there is a variation in strategy despite similar institutional design. The formal arrangements and raison d'être of RDBs is to assist developing countries in the process of poverty alleviation - a task that is often a risky investment. Focusing on the dichotomy between their banking and development roles, Ben-Artzi demonstrates that RDBs are potentially critical catalysts in the fight against poverty, even with their institutional limitations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316738043

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Regional Development Banks in Comparison

Regional Development Banks in Comparison

Jerusalem and Its Environs

Jerusalem and Its Environs

Life in Citations

Life in Citations

American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914

American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914

The Changing Landscape of a Utopia

The Changing Landscape of a Utopia

Regional Development Banks in Comparison

Regional Development Banks in Comparison

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