The northern ranges, Pamirs and Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor
Guidebook to trekking in Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Contains 18 treks exploring 7 different mountain areas, including the Northern Ranges, Pamir Mountains and Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor. Also includes a handful of shorter day hikes. With advice on trekking, backpacking equipment, permits and visas, and transport.
Pakistan: K2, Snow Lake, Gondogoro La and Nanga Parbat
Three of the most popular high-altitude treks in Pakistans Karakoram, among some of the worlds highest mountains: Snow Lake and the Biafo and Hispar Glaciers; the K2 Base Camp Trek; and Gondogoro La via Concordia. Also includes two shorter treks in the shadow of Nanga Parbat: Fairy Meadows and Rakhiot Base Camp Trek; and a trek to Diamir Face.
This companion report to the 2024 World Development Report, The Middle Income Trap, uses the '3i' framework-Investment, Infusion, and Innovation-as a strategic approach to address these challenges and provides policy options on how to grow to high income.
The Mongol Archive in Late Medieval France is the first comprehensive study of contact between France and the Mongols in the late Middle Ages. As these realms expanded across Eurasia-the French through crusade and settlement, the Mongols through conquest-their encounters altered each other's understanding of the world and their place in it. The ......
Spacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering. Sara E. Lewis's research reveals how those who cope most gracefully may indeed experience deep pain and loss. Looking at the Tibetan diaspora, she challenges perspectives that liken resilience to the hardiness of physical materials, suggesting people should "bounce back" ......
Ethnography, Science, and Empire in Imperial Russia
In this stimulating and timely book, Scott Bailey, an American teaching Russian and Eurasian history in Japan, traces the history of the dynamic Russian Geographical Society, which carried out major research expeditions to Central Eurasia during the second half of the nineteenth century. The immediate goal of its expeditions was to collect ......
taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia
This report identifies and provides a detailed assessment of inequality between generations, workers, regions that are fueling perceptions of unfairness and eroding the social contract. It illustrates how current policies and institutions are not equipped to deal with these distributional tensions.
promoting economic growth and resilience in Europe and central Asia
Critical Connections examines how trade, investment, migration, and other linkages among countries are drivers of economic growth in the Europe and Central Asia region. The study breaks new ground by using a multidimensional approach that recognises how each connectivity channel for growth is likely to be affected by the strength of other ......
prospects for healthy, active, and prosperous aging in Europe and Central Asia
Compared to other world regions, Europe is by far the oldest. Moreover, aging is set to accelerate further over the next decades, as large cohorts turn old. The objective of this report is to investigate what stands in the way of reaping the full benefits of increased longevity in the region-that is, longer lives and potentially prolonged payoffs ......
