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  • The Political Economy of Poverty and Social Transformations of the Global South

    by CROP ...
    Series series
    This book brings forth debates on the production and eradication of poverty from experiences in the global South. It collects a set of innovative articles concentrating on the way in which poverty, as a social process, has been tackled by popular movements and the governments of various states across the globe. Providing new insights into the limitations of traditional strategies to confront ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • The Shackled Continent

    Power, Corruption, and African Lives

    by Robert Guest ...
    A former Africa editor for The Economist, Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent's thorniest problems: war, AIDS, and above all, poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and economic developments of the past six years, The Shackled Continentis engrossing, highly readable, and as entertaining as it is tragic.Guest pulls the veil off the corruption and intrigue that ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Development Projects Observed

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Michele Alacevich ...
    Series series A Brookings Classic
    Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of Development Projects Observed is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume of Hirschman's groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings. Though among his lesser-known works, this unassuming tome is one of his most influential.It is in ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Sending Them Home

    Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference; Quarterly Essay 13

    by Robert Manne ...
    Series Book 13 - Quarterly Essay
    In Sending Them Home, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument about what could, and should, be done for the nine thousand refugees who remain in limbo on temporary protection visas.Sending Them Home also contains a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Brazil Inside Out

    by Jan Rocha ...
    Seen as a successful ‘emerging economy’, Brazil walks tall on the world stage and its voice is growing louder. Its success, celebrated in the 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, is attracting millions of foreign tourists. Yet Brazil also faces huge challenges: to combine economic growth with measures to reduce the huge social inequality inherited from its slave-owning past, to ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Foreign Aid for Development

    Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda

    Edited by George Mavrotas ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new 'big push' approach accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals or will another ... Read more

    $136.79 USD

  • Dynamic Sustainabilities

    Technology, Environment, Social Justice

    Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Andy Stirling ...
    Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international ... Read more

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  • Economics in the Twenty-First Century

    A Critical Perspective

    by Robert Chernomas, Ian Hudson ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Economics has always been nicknamed the “dismal science,” but today the field seems a little more dismal than usual as governments, social movements, and even students complain that the discipline is failing to make sense of the major economic problems of the day.In Economics in the Twenty-First Century, Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson demonstrate how today’s top young economists continue to lead ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • China's Change: The Greatest Show On Earth

    by Hugh Peyman ...
    'Importantly, China's Change: The Greatest Show on Earth provides a welcome contrast to such fashionable pessimism … demolishes a series of popular urban myths … and a very convincing case he makes. This, to my mind, is a wholly original approach to understanding present-day China and the book is well worth reading for this alone. … readers are likely to end up considerably wiser about how the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Wetland Management and Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa

    Edited by Adrian Wood, Alan Dixon, Matthew McCartney ...
    In this book the authors argue for a paradigm shift in the way African wetlands are considered. Current policies and wetland management are too frequently underpinned by a perspective that views agriculture simply as a threat and disregards its important contribution to livelihoods. In rural areas where people are entrenched in poverty, wetlands (in particular wetland agriculture) have a critical ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Democracy, Civil Society and Health in India

    by Madhavi Gupta, Pushkar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    India's health failures remain visible and pronounced despite high rates of economic growth since the 1980s and more than six decades of democratic rule. The authors address the key issues that emerge from the country's health situation, speculating on what it will take for low-income groups to begin claiming for better social services ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Conceptualizing Germany’s Energy Transition

    Institutions, Materiality, Power, Space

    Edited by Ludger Gailing, Timothy Moss ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is the first book to explore ways of conceptualizing Germany’s ongoing energy transition. Although widely acclaimed in policy and research circles worldwide, the Energiewende is poorly understood in terms of social science scholarship. There is an urgent need to delve beyond descriptive accounts of policy implementation and contestation in order to unpack the deeper issues at play in what has ... Read more

    $53.99 USD