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Rwanda
Ensign, Margee M.; Bertrand, William E.
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Description for Rwanda
Hardback. This book focuses on the innovative path Rwanda has taken in governance and reconciliation, gender equity, education, health and economic growth. The authors spent a decade working and researching in the country to prepare this path-breaking book. Num Pages: 174 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1HFGR; HBJH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world. Imagine a country where a democratically elected president is committed to gender equality and poverty reduction, where urban and rural schools are being wired to the Internet, and where the government is committed to becoming a middle-income country by 2020. Imagine that this country is located in the heart of sub-Saharan Africa and that this progress comes in the wake of one of the 20th century's worst genocides. Fifteen years removed from a mass genocide that resulted in the deaths of nearly one million people, ... Read more
Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world. Imagine a country where a democratically elected president is committed to gender equality and poverty reduction, where urban and rural schools are being wired to the Internet, and where the government is committed to becoming a middle-income country by 2020. Imagine that this country is located in the heart of sub-Saharan Africa and that this progress comes in the wake of one of the 20th century's worst genocides. Fifteen years removed from a mass genocide that resulted in the deaths of nearly one million people, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
174
Condition
New
Number of Pages
174
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761849421
SKU
V9780761849421
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About Ensign, Margee M.; Bertrand, William E.
Margee M. Ensign is dean of the School of International Studies and associate provost for International Initiatives at the University of the Pacific. William E. Bertrand is the Wisner Professor at Tulane University.
Reviews for Rwanda
A timely book for those who are interested in knowing more about the Rwanda of today… How Rwanda emerged from the horrors of Genocide to become a model of development and governance is a story to be told. This is what…Ensign and Bertrand do in this highly readable book.
David Macrae, European ambassador to Rwanda, 2004-2009 Rwandans and those ... Read more
David Macrae, European ambassador to Rwanda, 2004-2009 Rwandans and those ... Read more