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Library Aid to Developing Countries in Times of Globalization: A Literature Review
World Libraries, volume 12, issue 2 (2002), pp. 15-36
"A useful review of the literature pertaining to library aid and globalization, including book donation/distribution programmes, and support for local publishers. The study focuses on two questions: what are the major needs of libraries in the developing countries? And whether some of those needs ar
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Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and its Challenge to State Power
Cambridge: MIT Press (2002), 317 pp.
Die Zukunft der internationalen Kommunikationswissenschaft in Deutschland
Hamburg: Deutsches Übersee-Institut (2002), 207 pp.
INASP Directory 2002/2003
Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2002), 350 pp.
"While not specifically focusing on Africa, this directory from the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) is a useful resource as it provides detailed information on almost 400 agencies, organizations, institutions, learned societies, professional associations
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Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Development
Washington, DC: World Bank (2000), ix, 57 pp.
Marketing and Promoting Agricultural and Rural Development Publications: A Practical Guide
Key Guides
Oxford; Wageningen: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP); Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2000), x, 70 pp.
"Produced in landscape format and attractively designed, this is a valuable practical marketing manual that aims to assist small publishers to make sense of the publishing world, particularly NGOs with publishing activities, but where publishing is not the core function. The manual will guide them t
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Textbooks and Learning Materials 1990-1999
Paris: UNESCO (2000), 72 pp.
"This survey is one of a series prepared for the UNESCO Education for All (EFA) Assessment, under the auspices of the UNESCO Division of Basic Education and the United Kingdom Department of International Development for the International Consultative Forum on Education for All. The EFA objectives ar
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Buch und christliche Verkündigung in den Medien der Dritten Welt
Book and Publishing Assistance Programs: A Review and Inventory
Deep Insights
Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Bellagio Publishing Network, 2nd revised ed. (2000), v, 168 pp.
"First published in 1993, and with a new introductory essay providing an overview of significant developments since publication of the first edition, this is a survey of the various agencies and assistance programmes that are involved with publishing and book development in Africa and in other parts
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Textbooks for Developing Economies: Why Projects Fail?
Budapest: Center for Publishing Development (2000), 7 pp.
"De l'Idée au texte est une coédition produite par les Editions Alpha à Niamey et la Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung/DSE (qui fait maintenant partie de la GIZ). Elle est la première d'une série prévue dans le cadre d'un programme de formation du personnel des maisons d'éditi
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Publishing and Development: A Book of Readings
Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Bellagio Publishing Network (1998), xvi, 191 pp.
"Co-published with the Obor Foundation this is a collection of nine articles/reprints (previously published elsewhere) on key issues affecting the book industries in the developing world. They cover topics such as multinationals and Third World publishing, the economics of publishing, copyright, dis
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Educational Publishing in Global Perspective: Capacity Building and Trends
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (1998), ix, 229 pp.
"This is something of a benchmark volume on the subject of publishing and book development in Africa (and in some other developing countries). It contains the proceedings, and reflects the thinking and the deliberations that emerged from a seminar on“Understanding the Educational Book Industry”,
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Television: An International History
New York: Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. (1998), ix, 294 pp.
Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development
Oxford: Oxford University Press; United Nations Commission on Science and Technology Development (1998), vii, 323 pp.
"Revolutionary information and communication technologies are contributing to dramatic changes in the competitiveness of global and local markets and in the way people conduct their business and everyday lives. The potential benefits and risks these changes present for developing countries and trans
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A Guide to Sustainable Book Provision
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (1997), 116 pp.
"While many other publication address the problems of developing local private publishing from a commercial and professional point of view, this guide is specifically designed for the purpose of creating a sustainable and affordable system for the provision of good quality learning materials for sch
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