Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and institutions which support it. The PRSP framework has replaced the controversial structural adjustment programmes, as the primary mechanism through which official development financing is cha...

Cuando la felicidad casi ha llegado,cuando el camino está trazado, y fuera la hora de cambiarlo todo…«La felicidad no está tan lejos. Elisa la toca con un dedo. Sin duda, su futuro se resolverá con la boda y el confeti y todo saldrá bien. Sin embargo, en medio de ese perfecto día de tranquilidad, ese miércoles trece de febrero de 2013, hacia las catorce horas cuarenta y cinco, cuando todavía está en la oficina, su móvil empieza a vibrar. Número desconocido».Elisa, en...

Jeanne-Germaine Castang, the future Marie Celine of the Presentation, was born in 1878 in Nojals, France, to an extremely poor family. While her life was one of sorrows and sufferings, Blessed Marie-Celine of the Presentation shows how she bore them all with patience and humility, and above all divine charity. Compiled by the Poor Clares of Rockford, Illinois, this life story of a teenage Beata will move you to tears—of pity and of inspiration.Contracting poliomyelitis at age four,...

Dawn French, number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous and one of Britain's best loved comic writers, returns with Oh Dear Silvia, a darkly comic pageturner that will have you hanging on her every word.Who is in Coma Suite Number 5?A matchless lover? A supreme egotist? A selfless martyr? A bad mother? A cherished sister? A selfish wife?All of these. For this is Silvia Shute who has always done e...

Compiled by the Poor Clares of Rockford, Illinois. Beatified in 2007, this 19-year-old girl Germaine Castang suffered much in a desperately poor family, with illness, deaths and other sorrows---but her life was crowned by entry into religious life. Allowed to make her profession on her deathbed, Bl. Celine is forever a spouse of Christ. Every saint gives a different beautiful insight into our holy Catholic Religion!