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  • Women and Sustainable Human Development

    Empowering Women in Africa

    Edited by Maty Konte, Nyasha Tirivayi ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book adds significantly to the discourse surrounding the progress made in empowering women in Africa over the last decade, providing strong research evidence on diverse and timely gender issues in varied African countries. Topics covered include climate change and environmental degradation, agriculture and land rights, access to – and quality of – education, maternal and reproductive health, ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Migration, Remittances, and Sustainable Development in Africa

    Edited by Maty Konte, Linguère Mously Mbaye ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    This book provides a strong multidisciplinary examination of the links between migration, remittances and sustainable development in Africa. It makes evidence-based policy recommendations on migration to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.The key themes examined are migration and remittances, and their relations with the following issues: economic transformation, education and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Land Tenure Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Interventions in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe

    by Steven Lawry, Rebecca McLain, Margaret Rugadya, Gina Alvarado, Tasha Heidenrich ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
    This book examines the impacts of land tenure reform interventions implemented in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe.Since 2000, many African countries have introduced programs aimed at providing smallholder farmers with low-cost certificates for land held under customary tenure. Yet there are many contending views and debates on the impact of these land policies and this book reveals how ... Read more

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  • Eliminating Human Poverty

    Macroeconomic and Social Policies for Equitable Growth

    by Santosh Mehrotra, Enrique Delamonica ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    This book focuses on the provision of basic social services - in particular, access to education, health and water supplies - as the central building blocks of any human development strategy. The authors concentrate on how these basic social services can be financed and delivered more effectively to achieve the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals.Their analysis, which departs from ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics

    Volume 1: Context and Concepts

    Edited by Justin Yifu Lin, Célestin Monga ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    For a long time, economic research on Africa was not seen as a profitable venture intellectually or professionally-few researchers in top-ranked institutions around the world chose to become experts in the field. This was understandable: the reputation of Africa-centered economic research was not enhanced by the well-known limitations of economic data across the continent. Moreover, development ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Social Protection in Developing Countries

    Reforming Systems

    Edited by Katja Bender, Markus Kaltenborn, Christian Pfleiderer ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms of social protection systems introduced in recent years by many governments of low and middle-income ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Affluence and Influence

    Economic Inequality and Political Power in America

    by Martin Gilens ...
    Why policymaking in the United States privileges the rich over the poorCan a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy—but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Population and Society

    An Introduction

    by Gregg Lee Carter ...
    This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy.Five key chapters concentrate on (1) ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Prioritizing Development

    A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

    Edited by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    This book is a unique guide to making the world a better place. Experts apply a critical eye to the United Nations' Sustainable Development agenda, also known as the Global Goals, which will affect the flow of $2.5 trillion of development aid up until 2030. Renowned economists, led by Bjorn Lomborg, determine what pursuing different targets will cost and achieve in social, environmental and ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Global Problems, Smart Solutions

    Costs and Benefits

    Edited by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Development Economics

    Edited by M.R. Rosenzweig, Dani Rodrick ...
    Series Book 5 - Handbooks in Economics
    What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development? The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between policies and outcomes by surveying work from broad macroeconomic policies to interventions in microfinance. Asserting that there are no universal correspondences between policies and outcomes, contributors demonstrate instead that only an ... Read more

    $145.99 CAD

  • Equality For Women: Where Do We Stand?

    by Buvinic Mayra; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja; Ofosu-Amaah A. Waafas ...
    Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in the Millennium Declaration has spurred national and international efforts to improve women's ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD