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Does inequality cause underdevelopment?
Most "developing" or "underdeveloped" countries show high levels of inequality. Likewise, both in developing and developed countries, increases in inequality are often accompanied by declines in the levels of development. To what extent is this fact a simple
3Q Caddy Adzuba
The lawyer and journalist Caddy Adzuba has stood out as an international speaker of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), especially with regard to the situation of women, victims of gender violence related to DRC war. She is a founding member of the network "A loudspeaker for silence" and is...
Managers as coaches: how to assess these skills in organizational environments
Coaching, in organizational environments, is considered to be a process of dialogue through which the coach generates conditions that favour labour relationships, creativity, responsibility and efficiency. This study, carried out by...
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3Q Henri Weber
Professor at the University of Paris VIII, he is one of the historic leaders of the events of May 1968. On 6 June, during the celebration of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities' 50th anniversary, Weber gave a conference entitled "Un demi siècle après, quel est le bilan de Mai 68?" ["Half a...
How to ace your adoption home study in Spain
UAB anthropologist Diana Marre, in collaboration with Brown University anthropologist Jessaca Leinaweaver and independent scholar Susan Frekko, has published a study on how Spanish adoptive families prepare their homes for the home study associated with international adoption,...
3Q Lesley Bartlett
Lecturer in Educational Policy Studies in the School of Education at University of Wisconsin - Madison. Out-standing anthropologist scholar, her main areas of interest are literacy studies, migration and educator professional development. One of her more relevant and recent contributions are the formalization of...
The words leader/líder and their resonances in an Italo-Latin American multinational corporation
The Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, and the AFIN Research Group, Autonomous University of Barcelona, have analysed the semantic resonance of words related to leadership (leader,...
Can School Demand Result in the Improvement of Catalonia's Education System?
Researchers from the UAB have analysed over one thousand public primary education schools in Catalonia to study what motivates parents to choose a particular school. They have also studied how this election influences the quality...
Economic crisis highlights differences in social capital use as a means to access employment among young people
Social networks as a basis REDEMAS project developed by the Sociological Research Centre on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT) reveal a new model of professional and academic trajectory,...
