Author: IBP USA Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781433021619
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Guyana National Development Strategy Handbook

Author: IBP USA
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1438770014
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Guyana Business Law Handbook - Strategic Information and Basic Laws

Author: IBP, Inc.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1514520338
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Guyana Information Strategy, Internet and E-Commerce Development Handbook - Strategic Information, Programs, Regulations

Author: Ramesh Gampat
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503546322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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It is common knowledge that slavery and indenture were characterized by long hours of physical labor, restriction of movement and other basic human freedoms, and severe punishment for violations of draconian labor laws. Less well known is the fact that nutrition was very deficient and a range of infectious diseases maimed, debilitated and killed on a large scale. In trying to narrow the knowledge gap with respect to Guyana, Ramesh Gampat shows that extremely poor sanitary conditions, awful hygiene and malnutrition hastened widespread infections and created a vicious cycle. The British protected its own soldiers, officials and colonists by establishing a medical enclave that lasted until Emancipation in 1838. Former slaves were then quarantined to neglected and decaying villages and Indians to plantations. Concern with health conditions appeared only during periods of epidemics and even then it was essentially for the protection of Europeans. Colonial medicine opened the way for stereotyping, labeling, racialization of disease, neutralization of potential leaders in the struggle for justice, and crystallization of the view that Europeans were superior to Blacks and Indians. Shorter stature and shorter life expectancy are good indications that slaves and indentured immigrants fared considerably less well than Europeans. Several infectious diseases sickened and fell Blacks and Indians, including malaria and undefined fevers, pneumonia and bronchitis, diarrhea and enteritis, tuberculosis, pneumonia and hookworm. The conquest of malaria in the early 1950s accelerated the epidemiological transition from communicable to chronic noncommunicable diseases, and today NCDs account for some three-quarters of all deaths in Guyana. Malaria has reemerged, fueled by a gold boom that consumes huge amounts of mercury. The potentially adverse public health consequences of this relatively new dynamic, the combined trio, have been neglected.

Author: IBP, Inc
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 143303560X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Nauru Economic & Development Strategy Handbook

Author: IBP, Inc.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1433060434
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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2011 Updated Reprint. Updated Annually. Cayman Islands Recent Economic and Political Developments Yearbook

Author: Benn, V.
Publisher: CIFOR
ISBN: 6023871321
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55

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Guyana is a small country with 87.5% of its area covered with forest (GFC 2018b) and lies in the center of the Guiana Shield, one of the four largest remaining standing tropical rainforests in the world. In 2006, Guyana took advantage of the recognition of the value of standing forest to mitigate climate change and became actively engaged in REDD+. Subsequently, in 2009, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed with Norway to support implementation of a Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). This was a national plan to reorient Guyana’s economy and move towards more sustainable extractive industries and forest management. The bilateral agreement with Norway established a framework for performance-related finance of up to USD 250 million from 2010 to 2015 for implementation of the LCDS. Three main pillars of the LCDS, linked to its REDD+ agenda, included maintaining historically low deforestation, endorsing low carbon development and adapting to climate change (Bellfield et al. 2015).More recently, and building on the LCDS, a new Green State Development Strategy: Vision 2040 has been developed for Guyana as a “twenty-year, national development policy that reflects the guiding vision and principles of the ‘green agenda’. The central objective is development that provides a better quality of life for all Guyanese derived from the country’s natural wealth – its diversity of people and abundant natural resources (land, water, forests, mineral and aggregates, biodiversity)” (GoG 2019b, p. 1).Since 2009, CIFOR has conducted the Global Comparative Study (GCS) in 13 countries, with Guyana as the final addition. Among the GCS-REDD+ case studies, Guyana is one of the most advanced REDD+ countries, alongside Brazil (KorhonenKurki et al. 2019), and the Norway–Guyana bilateral agreement is the world’s second largest national-level REDD+ scheme (Bade 2013). Yet, Guyana’s economy still largely depends on extractive resources, with mining remaining the main driver of deforestation and forest degradation. The potential revenue anticipated from offshore oil extraction might change the country’s landscape and outlook, putting the permanence of REDD+ under scrutiny. The Guyana case study, therefore, presents many lessons on how to balance development paths without jeopardizing national forest resources.

Author: USA (PRD) International Business Publications
Publisher: International Business Publications USA
ISBN: 9780739701065
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Complete national development strategy for Guyana 2002-2010

Author: Commonwealth Secretariat
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
ISBN: 1849290792
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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This unique annual collection of key economic and statistical data on states with fewer than 5 million inhabitants is an essential reference for economists, planners and policy-makers working on issues of concern to small states. This volume contains 68 tables covering development indicators and 4 articles focusing on the green economy.

Author: IBP, Inc.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1577514785
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Latin America Health Care System Profiles Handbook - Strategic Information, Developments, Regulations