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  • Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action

    Perspectives and Lessons from Ghana

    by Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle, Felix Asante, Joseph R.A. Ayee, Abena Oduro, Osei Akoto, William Baah-Boateng, Harry A. Sackey, Daniel K. Twerefou, Osei Asibey ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Philosophy
    Since the inception of the HIPC Initiative, the story of the design and implementation of poverty alleviation strategies has largely been told through the filters of development partners and the Bretton Woods Institutions. Poverty Reduction Strategies in Action examines the efforts in Ghana to reduce poverty and initiate changes that it believes are essential to ensure a prosperous future for its ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana

    Edited by Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Joseph Atsu Ayee, Abena D. Oduro ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is the first compilation of its kind that brings together discussions of the evolution of scholarship in different branches of the Social Sciences. It presents a comprehensive multi-disciplinary text exploring the changing dynamics of the Social Sciences in Ghana, offering a broader perspective from which to view the evolution, theory, methods, substance and relevance of each of the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice

    Lessons from Nigeria and Selected Developing Countries

    by Bola Akanji, Funmi Soetan, Vera Acheampong, Abiodun Adegboye, Adeniyi Olanrewaju Adekanla, Helen Akinyemi, Bishop Akolgo, Dorcas Alabi, Siobhan Austen0, Monica Costa1, Adebukola Yewande Daramola2, Olanike F. Deji3, Reina Ichii4, Tolulope Rachael Jerumeh5, Zohra Khan6, Judy Mulusa7, Abena D. Oduro8, Olufunke Mojúbàolú Okome9, Abubakar Oladeji0, Ifeolu Olagbaju1, Aanuoluwapo Oladipupo Opayinka2, Monica Adele Orisadare3, Enat Shiferaw4, Misrak Tamiru5, Neteru Wondwosen6 ...
    In the twenty-first century, gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) has emerged as a development tool that explores if and how gender equality goals and targets are being effectively supported through government funding. Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Practice: Lessons from Nigeria and Selected Developing Countries argues that, although justified by the high costs of gender inequality to economic ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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    Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

    by Paul Taylor, Pew Research Center ...
    The America of the near future will look nothing like the America of the recent past.America is in the throes of a demographic overhaul. Huge generation gaps have opened up in our political and social values, our economic well-being, our family structure, our racial and ethnic identity, our gender norms, our religious affiliation, and our technology use.Today's Millennials -- well-educated, tech ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Singapore Perspectives 2014: Differences

    by Mathews Mathew, Wai Fong Chiang, Christopher Gee ...
    Series series Singapore Perspectives
    Singapore's demographic diversity was the driving force for the country's founding leaders as they forged a nation. They sought to navigate the many differences in the country's ancestral, social and cultural affiliations even as they embarked on the urgent task of nation-building. A decade into the new century, many of the country's traditional understandings of differences are being challenged, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Immigrant Networks and Social Capital

    by Carl L. Bankston III ...
    Series series Immigration and Society
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015In recent years, immigration researchers have increasingly drawn on the concept of social capital and the role of social networks to understand the dynamics of immigrant experiences. How can they help to explain what brings migrants from some countries to others, or why members of different immigrant groups experience widely varying outcomes in their ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Education Matters

    Global Schooling Gains from the 19th to the 21st Century

    by Robert J. Barro, Jong-Wha Lee ...
    Education has significant and far-reaching effects not only on individuals, but also on the societies in which they live and to which they contribute. The education level of a population affects how a country supports itself and others and the degree to which it can participate in the global field. While everyone from politicians to policymakers to celebrities has stressed the importance of ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Advanced Techniques for Modelling Maternal and Child Health in Africa

    Edited by Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Gebrenegus Ghilagaber ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents both theoretical contributions and empirical applications of advanced statistical techniques including geo-additive models that link individual measures with area variables to account for spatial correlation; multilevel models that address the issue of clustering within family and household; multi-process models that account for interdependencies over life-course events and non ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • City of Quarters

    Urban Villages in the Contemporary City

    by Mark Jayne ...
    In cities throughout the world, there is an increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas - urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters. These spaces are sites where capital and culture intertwine in new ways. City of Quarters brings together some of the most prominent authors writing about urban villages to provide the first systematic and multi-disciplinary overview of ... Read more

    $150.99 CAD

  • Violence, Statistics, and the Politics of Accounting for the Dead

    Edited by Samrat Sinha, Elizabeth Minor, Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the methodological problems of accounting for the dead in armed conflicts as well as how the process itself is open to manipulation and controversy. Inspired by the work of the International Practitioner Network of casualty recording organizations, the book features thematic analysis, case studies and historical discussion on the use of the body count towards political, ... Read more

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  • Handbook Of The Sociology Of Youth In Brics Countries

    by Tom Dwyer, Mikhail K Gorshkov, Ishwar Modi, Chunling Li, Mokong S Mapadimeng ...
    Youth are, by definition, the future. This book brings initial analyses to bear on youth in the five BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which are home to nearly half of the world's youth. Very little is known about these youth outside of their own countries since the mainstream views on 'youth' and 'youth culture' are derived from the available literature on youth in ... Read more

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  • The Future of Motherhood in Western Societies

    Late Fertility and its Consequences

    Edited by Gijs Beets, Joop Schippers, Egbert R. te Velde ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Most people value to have children still highly. But what is the optimal moment to have the first? The decision on having children or not and if yes on the timing of the first is one of the most difficult ones to make, also because it more or less coincides with various other heavy decisions on shaping the life course (like on union formation, labour market career, housing accommodation, etc.). ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD