This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In this book, you'll learn the fundamentals of cryptocurrency, including its history, how it works, and its potential benefits and challenges. You'll explore the different types of cryptocurrencies, how they are traded, and the technology behind cryptocurrency, including blockchain.You'll also discover the potential applications of cryptocurrency in finance, e-commerce, and other industries, and learn about the ...

This book explores the record of the UN development system (UNDS) over more than 70 years as a fount of ideas and concepts in development; as a contributor to development thinking and strategy; and as the principal source of global development goals from the first UN Development Decade to the SDGs. It also examines the more mixed record of the UNDS in its operational role and asks how the ideational and operational functions can be more successfully aligned, and what changes such an alignm...

First published in 1999, Browne creates a comprehensive assessment of post war development assistance in developing countries. Browne suggests that a better managed global environment, developing counties could further advance themselves and thus minimising then diminishing their need for aid resources.

This volume provides a short and accessible introduction to the organization that serves as the primary coordinator of the work of the UN system throughout the developing world –the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The book:traces the origins and evolution of UNDP, outlining how a central UN funding mechanism and field network developed into a more comprehensive development agencyevaluates the UNDP’s performance and results, both in its role as system co...

This book turns the argument about aid effectiveness on its head. Since development assistance is inherently self-interested, a source of soft power, political manipulation and commercial opportunity, its real effectiveness could arguably be judged by the strength of donor influence and not by development impact. Its subjective nature means that its impact on development is often weak, mainly short-term and confined to limited and specific contexts.Aid as influence was prevalent du...

After a terrorist attack on a busy airport in the south of England, a repentant suicide bomber is taken into custody and interviewed by an MI5 handler. A thought-provoking short in response to the attack on Zaventem airport in Brussels, March 2016.All author proceeds from this short story will be donated to the Rode Kruis charity in Belgium.

The mandate of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is close to many of the core issues now confronting developing and transition economy countries, and this book offers the first concise and accessible guide to this important organization.As the only UN organization to have been transformed from a UN secretariat entity to an independently governed UN agency, UNIDO has also an agency which has had to make drastic changes of focus and business practice in o...

Over three-quarters of a century, the UN has been impacted by major changes in the balance of powers among its member states. This unique and insightful book offers detailed commentary on its historic effectiveness and reviews the capacity of the UN to reform and adapt to global challenges. This book constitutes a judgement on the overwhelming importance as well as the vulnerability of multilateralism at a time when the UN has never been more indispensableThis book describes:

Sixty-odd more titles make up the seventh volume in the Moments in Rhyme series, making up roughly the first half of an extended journey through Sri Lanka, India and Nepal.At times comic and at others soul-searching, these titles mark the next stage in the poetic road-trip that the author's life. Rabindranath Tagore it is not - these poems are merely one man's experiences captured in verse. Still good though.

In this fictional novel, mankind is entrusted with the vicegerency by the Creator, to the dismay of Iblis the protagonist of this story, who later becomes the archenemy of mankind, seeking every opportunity to defeat and destroy the enemy. Heavenly Concerns reaches its climax when Iblis renders mankind submissive, passive and indifferent. Thus, the journey to explore the roots of mankind then extends further into the far future to uncover the inevitablethe eventual demise of mankind. Origi...

A JUMBLE OF DOGS completes the author's initial trip to the subcontinent. Another six months' worth of highs, lows, moods and musings captured in song and verse.Titles include The Hunchback of Premam Beach, Turtle Bones, The Temple Dancer and King of the Cliff and range from doggerel to rap to hard rock with all sorts in between.

Solomon Mhundi is an iCEman, an elite law enforcement agent with access to the very best in training and technology.Tazim Saronj is a Hackney street detective working his way up the ranks in the teeming hub of 23rd century London.When the reclusive CEO of a major Glc is found murdered in his penthouse apartment the iCE Agency is called in. A professional hit, but with no apparent motive, can Mhundi and his digital partner Om trace the killer and uncover who was behind the ass...