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  • Agricultural Commercialization And Government Policy In Africa

    by J.J. Hinderink, J.J. Sterkenburg ...
    First published in 1987. This book is based on an analysis of relevant literature and on the results of field studies carried out over a number of years in Sub-Saharan Africa. These studies were part of a research programme on agricultural commercialization and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, undertaken by the Department of Geography of Developing Countries, University ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Dead Aid

    Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    In the past fifty years, more than $1 trillion in development-related aid has been transferred from rich countries to Africa. Has this assistance improved the lives of Africans? No. In fact, across the continent, the recipients of this aid are not better off as a result of it, but worse—much worse.In Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Divide

    Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

    by Jason Hickel ...
    Global inequality doesn’t just exist; it has been created.More than four billion people—some 60 percent of humanity—live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The New Scramble for Africa

    by Padraig R. Carmody ...
    Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now rising and the availability of natural resources falling, the continent finds itself at the centre of a battle to gain access to and control of its valuable natural assets. China's role in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • World Development

    An Essential Text

    by Barry Baker ...
    This essential text addresses the growing need for a dedicated coursebook for students and teachers of world development. As the source of the most respected international magazine on world development issues, the publishers have created a highly credible and accessible text to illuminate this increasingly important subject.Thematic chapters cover globalization, population, the millennium ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The End of Development

    A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity

    by Andrew Brooks ...
    Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?Human history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century in an argument grounded in a deep understanding of geography, Andrew Brooks rejects popular explanations for the ... Read more

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  • Public Policy and Agricultural Development

    Edited by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    Series series Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods
    This book critically re-examines the currently dominant paradigm of agricultural development policy from historical and comparative perspectives. Examining the experiences of 11 developed countries in their earlier stages of development and the experiences of 10 developing and transition economies in the last half a century, the book offers an in-depth discussion on a range of public policies for ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Implications of the Euro

    A Critical Perspective from the Left

    Edited by Mark Baimbridge, Brian Burkitt, Philip Whyman ...
    To date, critical analysis of the EMU project has largely been advanced from the centre-right spectrum of British politics. Comparable questions from the centre-left have failed to find a coherent voice. Although, the European fault-line cannot be characterized as a neat Left-Right issue there are noticeable divisions in opinion across British business, the trade union movement and within the ... Read more

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  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    by Goran Tannerfeldt, Per Ljung ...
    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... Read more

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  • Looting Africa

    The Economics of Exploitation

    by Patrick Bond ...
    Despite the rhetoric, the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are become poorer. From Tony Blair's Africa Commission and the Make Poverty History campaign to the Hong Kong WTO meeting, Africa's gains have been mainly limited to public relations. The central problems remain exploitative debt and financial relationships with the North, phantom aid, unfair trade, distorted investment and the continent's ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The New Scramble for Africa

    by Padraig R. Carmody ...
    Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part in this story has loomed particularly large in recent years, and the American military footprint on the continent has also expanded. But a new scramble for resources, markets and territory is now taking place in Africa involving not just state, but non ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • When Things Fell Apart

    State Failure in Late-Century Africa

    by Robert H. Bates ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an exploration of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order, and the foundations of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD