Esta obra constitui uma apresentação de uma disciplina que se insere no âmbito da estatística e da economia, da autoria de um profissional da área. Esta atividade em África caracteriza-se pela especificidade da macroeconomia no continente, marcada pela existência de um setor informal que torna imperfeita a cobertura estatística das economias nacionais. A disponibilidade de dados é uma das principais dificuldades com que os especialistas se deparam. Além disso, as ferramentas utilizadas são a estatística descritiva e a econometria, que permitem, para além das análises, corrigir os dados defeituosos. Todos os agentes económicos são utilizadores destas análises. No entanto, é necessária uma maior divulgação para contribuir mais para a saída do subdesenvolvimento.
Despite their own legacy of torment in Egypt, Jews in the U.S. varied in their attitudes toward the slave system, even after it provoked secession and rebellion in their new promised land. This discomfiting anomaly has been probed by scholars...
The “race” question has been raging all over the world since the early days of the human, but nowhere else has the debate taken dramatic proportions as in South Africa in the 20th century. A cooking pot of peoples, ethnic...
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended...
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to...
Biographical research can illuminate imperial and colonial history. This is particularly true of Africa, where empires competed with one another and colonial society was characterised by rigid divisions. In this book, five biographical studies explore how, in the course of...
Our examination of the biographies in African historiography reveals a tension between the less studied biographies of “ordinary” heroes and the more canonical “approach to the personal stories of "great men" and, now increasingly, great women. Over the last two...