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Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak
“With sensitivity and compassion, Leydesdorff interviews about fifty female survivors of the Srebrenica massacre . . . i...
Author: Selma Leydesdorff | Kay Richardson
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“With sensitivity and compassion, Leydesdorff interviews about fifty female survivors of the Srebrenica massacre . . . in this valuable oral history.”
Selma Leydesdorff is Professor of Oral History and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She is author of We Lived with Dignity: The Jewish Proletariat of Amsterdam, 1900–1940 and editor (with
“A book of remarkable integrity that gives the victims voices, faces, families, and lives. . . . The author succeeds in creating an honest and sensitive picture from the jumble of stories, emotions, and reminiscences. . . . A work of great social relevance.” —Internationale Spectator
Neyzi) of Memories of Mass Repression:
Atrocity.
Kay Richardson is a retired editor with thirty years of experience in international
—Melissa K. Bokovoy, University of New Mexico
scholarly publishing. During her thirteen years of residence in the Netherlands, she gained fluency in Dutch and developed an abiding interest in Dutch history and culture.
Bloomington & Indianapolis Cover photograph: Kamenica near Zvornik, September 2002. © 2011 Tarik Samarah.
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Bosnian Genocide
Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of
“An important contribution to the scholarship on the experiences, memories, and traumas of genocide and on the wars in Bosnia. . . .
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Doing Business 2020
Contents
Doing Business 2020 is the 17th in a series of annual studies investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. Doing Business presents quantitative indicators on business regulations and the protection of property rights that can be compared across 190 economiesfrom Afghanistan to Zimbabwe-and over time.
Regulations affecting 12 areas of the life of a business are covered: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, resolving insolvency, employing workers, and contracting with the government. The employing workers and contracting with the government indicator sets are not included in this year's ranking on the ease of doing business.
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Tackling burdensome regulation
Worldwide, 115 economies made it easier to do business.
The economies with the most notable improvement in Doing Business 2020 are Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Togo, Bahrain, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, China, India, and Nigeria.
Only two African economies rank in the top 50 on the ease of doing business; no Latin American economies rank in this group. DOING BUSINESS 2020 2 A t its core, regulation is about freedom to do business. Regulation aims to prevent worker mistreatment by greedy employers (regulation of labor), to ensure that roads and bridges do not collapse (regulation of public procurement), and to protect one's investments (minority shareholder protections). All too often, however, regulation misses its goal, and one inefficiency replaces another, especially in the form of government overreach in business activity. Governments in many economies adopt or maintain regulation that burdens entrepreneurs. Whether by intent or ignorance, such regulation limits entrepreneurs' ability to freely operate a private business. As a resul .