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Measuring Social Capital: An Integrated Questionnaire

Measuring Social Capital: An Integrated Questionnaire

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In Jonathan Isham, Thomas Kelly, and Sunder Ramaswamy, eds. Social Capital and Economic Development: Well-being in Developing Countries. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 85-103. Grootaert, Christiaan, and Thierry van Bastelaer, ...
The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical ...

The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical ...

Christiaan Grootaert

The book documents the pervasive role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development, facilitating the provision of goods and services, and easing political transition and recovery from civil conflicts.
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Christiaan Huygens ...

A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Christiaan Huygens ...

Joella Yoder

Christiaan's library, just as previously he and his brothers had sold unwanted books from their father's collection. Thus, books annotated by Christiaan are found in many distant libraries. Because of intermarriage by cousins, nearly all of  ...
Poverty Correlates and Indicator-based Targeting in Eastern ...

Poverty Correlates and Indicator-based Targeting in Eastern ...

Christiaan Grootaert

... Carlos Elbrit 82979 Ariel Dinar June 1998 F. Toppin Gabriel Keynan 30450 Bart D. Ostro Gunnar S. Eskeland Tarhan Feyzioglu Jose Miguel Sanchez June 1998 C Bernardo 31148 Gloria Grandolini Luis Cerda June 1998 C. Zappala 87945 ...
Christiaan Barnard's Program for Living with Arthritis

Christiaan Barnard's Program for Living with Arthritis

Christiaan Barnard

Discusses the causes and symptoms of arthritis and offers advice on the treatment of arthritis with drugs, diet, surgery, and exercise
Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, ...

Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, ...

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Christiaan van Bochove, “De Hollandse haringvisserij tijdens de vroegmoderne tijd,” Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 1, no. 1 (2004): 3–17; Christiaan van Bochove and Jan Luiten van Zanden, “Two Engines of Early ...
Climate Change: Five Years After Kyoto

Climate Change: Five Years After Kyoto

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Christiaan Vrolijk 2001. 'The Marrakesh Accords'. RIIA Meeting Report, R1IA, London. . TERI. 2001. Review of COP-7. . Christiaan Vrolijk. 2002.
Christiaan Barnard and the Story of the First Successful ...

Christiaan Barnard and the Story of the First Successful ...

John Bankston

Introduces the surgeon who in 1967 became the first to successfully transplant a donor heart into another human being.
Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization ...

Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization ...

Joella G. Yoder

A case study of the interrelationship between mathematics and physics during the Scientific Revolution.
The Unwanted

The Unwanted

Christiaan Barnard

This novel reveals the inner struggle of a heart-surgeon who has to cope with two conflicting lives: that of a husband, lover, father and friend; and that of a doctor dedicated to the fight against death as the ultimate enemy.
Green politics

Green politics

Anil Agarwal

According to a US study, the compliance costs for annex B are expected to be US $1 20 billion a year without trade or CDM.2 Using this estimate, Christiaan Vrolijk points out in an UNCTAD document that the total market for CDM could be US ...
Climate Change and Power: Economic Instruments for European ...

Climate Change and Power: Economic Instruments for European ...

Christiaan Vrolijk

'This book provides an essential guide to the challenges facing the power sector, but is equally enlightening to other industrial emitters, policy-makers and non-governmental organizations.
Beyond the Catch: Fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North ...

Beyond the Catch: Fisheries of the North Atlantic, the North ...

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Young scholars, such as Christiaan van Bochove and Bo Poulsen, show that the integration of the available source material with new models and theories can result in important new conclusions and insights.5 The contributions on the Low.
50 Ways to a Healthy Heart

50 Ways to a Healthy Heart

Christiaan Barnard

Filled with personal anecdotes, a guide from the pioneering heart surgeon provides practical information for preventing heart disease and examines every aspect of life, from laughing more often to enjoying regular sex, as it relates to ...
Shaping Medieval Markets: The Organisation of Commodity ...

Shaping Medieval Markets: The Organisation of Commodity ...

Jessica Dijkman

Christiaan van Bochove shared his knowledge of measuring market integration with me. Christopher Dyer allowed me to use the library of the Centre for English Local History at Leicester University and readily answered my questions about ...
Lenses and Waves: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical ...

Lenses and Waves: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematical ...

Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis

This book discusses the development of Huygens' wave theory, reconstructing the winding road that eventually led to Traité de la Lumière. For the first time, the full range of manuscript sources is taken into account.
Good Governance in the Middle East Oil Monarchies

Good Governance in the Middle East Oil Monarchies

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For a full discussion of the economics of the Kyoto mechanisms, and an analysis of various emissions trading studies, see Michael Grubb with Christiaan Vrolijk and Duncan Brack, The Kyoto Protocol: A Guide and Assessment (London: ...
Paul on the Cross: Reconstructing the Apostle's Story of ...

Paul on the Cross: Reconstructing the Apostle's Story of ...

David A. Brondos

64. Johan Christiaan Beker, The Triumph of God: The Essence of Paul's Thought, trans. LorenT. Stuckenbruck (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1990), 84. 65. For the relevant passages from Paul's epistles in this regard, see especially Dunn, ...
Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and ...

Yearbook of International Cooperation on Environment and ...

Olav Schram Stokke

Svante August Arrhenius (1859—1927), Swedish physical chemist. . Michael Grubb with Christiaan Vrolijk and Duncan Brack (1999), The Kyoto Protocol: A Guide and Assessment (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs), 4.
Econometric Methods with Applications in Business and Economics

Econometric Methods with Applications in Business and Economics

Christiaan Heij

Nowadays applied work in business and economics requires a solid understanding of econometric methods to support decision-making.
Climate Change and European Leadership: A Sustainable Role ...

Climate Change and European Leadership: A Sustainable Role ...

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... CarloCarraro, Asbjørn Aaheim, Wolfgang Jung, Reinhard Loske, Agnethe Dahl , Nicolien vander Grijp,Thierry Lepesant, Pierre Courtois, Camilla Bretteville, Christiaan Vrolijk TheEuropean Union aspires to being a major international force, ...

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