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  • Humanizing Data

    Representative Storytelling in a Refugee Camp

    by Olivier Sterck, Madison Bakewell, Raphael Bradenbrink, Alexander Betts ...
    Humanizing Data immerses readers in the everyday life of the Kakuma refugee camp, one the largest refugee camps in Africa. While the media frequently offers sensationalist portrayals of refugees as victims, heroes, or villains, this book adopts an alternative methodology called Representative Storytelling that enables readers to situate individual stories in relation to the experience of the wider ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

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  • The Wealth of Refugees

    How Displaced People Can Build Economies

    by Alexander Betts ...
    We live in an age of displacement. Refugee numbers are increasing due to a proliferation of fragile states, and this problem will be exacerbated by climate change and the impact of COVID-19. And yet, rising populist nationalism has undermined the political willingness of rich countries to accept migrants and asylum seekers. Given these contradictory trends, how can we create sustainable refugee ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Humanitarian Economics

    War, Disaster, and the Global Aid Market

    by Gilles Carbonnier ...
    While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that encompasses the economics and political economy of war, disaster, terrorism and humanitarianism. Carbonnier's book is the first to present humanitarian economics to a wide readership, defining its parameters, explaining its utility and convincing us why it ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Child Brides, Global Consequences

    How to End Child Marriage

    by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon ...
    One-third of the world's girls are married before the age of eighteen, limiting both their educational and economic potential. Child marriage is damaging to global prosperity and stability, yet despite the urgency of the issue, there remains a significant lack of data on the subject. Senior Fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses both the factors that contribute to and strategies that have proved ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats

    Oil and the State in Saudi Arabia

    by Steffen Hertog ...
    In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an untold history of how the elite rivalries and whims of half a century ago have shaped today's Saudi state and are reflected in its policies.Starting in the late 1990s, Saudi Arabia embarked on an ambitious reform campaign to remedy its long-term economic ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa

    Knowledge Co-production from the South

    Edited by Ntombini Marrengane, Sylvia Croese ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cities and Development
    This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population.Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the ... Read more

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  • Right Where We Belong

    How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education

    by Sarah Dryden-Peterson ...
    A leading expert shows how, by learning from refugee teachers and students, we can create for displaced children—and indeed all children—better schooling and brighter futures.Half of the world’s 26 million refugees are children. Their formal education is disrupted, and their lives are too often dominated by exclusion and uncertainty about what the future holds. Even kids who have the opportunity ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Refugee Economies

    Forced Displacement and Development

    by Alexander Betts, Louise Bloom, Josiah Kaplan, Naohiko Omata ...
    Refugees have rarely been studied by economists. Despite some pioneering research on the economic lives of refugees, there remains a lack of theory and empirical data through which to understand, and build upon, refugees' own engagement with markets. Yet, understanding these economic systems may hold the key to rethinking our entire approach to refugee assistance. If we can improve our knowledge ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Social Change in the Gulf Region

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Md Mizanur Rahman, Amr Al-Azm ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book, comprising thirty-nine chapters divided into social, cultural, economic, and political spheres, offers a unique opportunity to dive into the complex, dynamic, and sometimes contradictory transformation of Gulf societies in the last few decades. Whilst the Gulf region has at times been seen as impervious to this natural phenomenon of transformation—timeless, never changing, ... Read more

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  • The New Post-oil Arab Gulf

    Managing People and Wealth

    Edited by David Weir, Zeinab Karake-Shalhoub ...
    The sharp increase in oil revenues since 2002 has left the Arab Gulf States with billions of petro-dollars. But how will these countries fare in the post-oil era? The rulers of these states are taking serious measures to ensure the survival of their economies, and indeed their regimes, in a world with scarce mineral resources. This volume explores the extent to which these countries have been and ... Read more

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  • After the Spring:Economic Transitions in the Arab World

    Economic Transitions in the Arab World

    by Magdi Amin, Ragui Assaad, Nazar al-Baharna, Kemal Dervis, Raj M. Desai, Navtej S. Dhillon, Ahmed Galal ...
    The Arab Spring constitutes perhaps the most far-reaching political and economic transition since the end of communism in Europe. For too long, the economic aspirations of the people in the region, especially young people, have been ignored by leaders in Arab countries and abroad. Competing views as to how best to meet these aspirations are now being debated in the region. The outcome will shape ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Conflict Resolution and Nation-Building in Somalia

    by Mohamed Ali Abdi ...
    A B S T R A C T ABDI, MOHAMED A: BA WHITTIER COLLEGE, 1966 MPA SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, 1969 MPH FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, 1996 CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND NATION-BUILDING IN SOMALIA Publication Scheduled for January 2012 The research concentrated on the current as well as the past quagmire of the Somali conflict. Political, social and economic triggers have been identified to resolve or reduce ... Read more

    $3.99 USD