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  • Decentralization and Development of Sri Lanka Within a Unitary State

    Edited by N.S. Cooray, Sirimal Abeyratne ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This comprehensive volume provides uniquely diverse insights into various aspects of decentralization and development from both developed and developing countries, with special reference to Sri Lanka. For a quarter century, Sri Lanka was battered by its prolonged civil war, which ended in 2009, but has now achieved relative peace and stability. Having developed rapidly, Sri Lanka offers a classic ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    Electricity Sector Risk Assessment

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Guidance Note
    The electricity sector is vulnerable to a broad range of risks that can threaten development effectiveness. Risks can spring from the magnitude of the sector's capital investments, opportunities for discretionary decision making and rent seeking by stakeholders, weak policy and regulatory frameworks, capacity weaknesses of sector entities, and inefficient systems. Governance risk vulnerabilities ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Economy of Microfinance

    Financializing Poverty

    by Philip Mader ...
    Series series Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
    According to the author, rather than alleviating poverty, microfinance financialises poverty. By indebting poor people in the Global South, it drives financial expansion and opens new lands of opportunity for the crisis-ridden global capital markets. This book raises fundamental concerns about this widely-celebrated tool for social development. ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • South Asia in Transition

    Democracy, Political Economy and Security

    Edited by B. Chakma ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Combining theoretical and empirical insights, this book provides an in-depth analysis of South Asia's transition in the areas of democracy, political economy and security since the end of the Cold War. It provides a close scrutiny to the state of democracy and political economy in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Political Economy of State-owned Enterprises in China and India

    Edited by X. Yi-chong ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Focused on unique features of economic development, this edited volume examines the nature and structure of corporate governance of several key state-owned enterprises in China and public sector units in India in five strategic sectors: oil and natural gas, steel, coal, electricity generation, and banking industries. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Reforming Urban Governance in Bangladesh

    The City Corporation

    by Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides an analysis of the urban government system in Bangladesh, focusing on its upper tier, the City Corporation (CC), and the institutional and legal frameworks within which it operates. Along with a discussion of the scale and magnitude of urbanization, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of the reform agendas of CCs including their functional assignments, local political ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • China Engages Global Health Governance

    Responsible Stakeholder or System-Transformer?

    by L. Chan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores public health in China in particular the management of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of understanding China's compliance with and resistance to the norms and rules embedded in the global health regime. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Political Economy of India's Growth Episodes

    by Sabyasachi Kar, Kunal Sen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    ‘This book is different from most other attempts to understand the politics of Indian economic development. Breaking down the last 65+ years of Indian development into several episodes of growth, it provides a rich set of insights into the political economy of the Indian development process and is a valuable addition to the literature.’ –Pranab Bardham, University of California, Berkeley, USA ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Global Digital Divides

    Explaining Change

    by James B. Pick, Avijit Sarkar ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book analyzes extensive data on the world’s rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies. It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines digital differences in the major world nations of China, India, the United States and Japan at the state and provincial levels. At the global level, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Public Procurement Reform and Governance in Africa

    Edited by S.N. Nyeck ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the governance of public procurement reform in Africa. Through a bottom-up approach to case studies and comparative analyses, scholars, practitioners, and social activists write about the organizational mechanisms and implementation gaps in public procurement governance in light of the general premises of national reform. Reforming the ways in ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • The World Bank and Transferring Development

    Policy Movement through Technical Assistance

    by Adrian Robert Bazbauers ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book analyses the World Bank’s provision of technical assistance from 1946 to the present day. It argues that the relational dynamics between technical assistance provider and recipient affects the legitimacy of policy norms travelling from the ‘international’ to the ‘domestic’. Beginning from the constructivist position that ‘development’ is a social construct, the author contends that ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • China's Policymaking for Regional Economic Cooperation

    by Yang Jiang ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Using first-hand interview data, Yang Jiang reveals the key trends of China's trade and financial politics after its WTO accession. In particular, she highlights the influence of competing domestic interests, government agencies and different ideas on China's foreign economic policy. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD