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ThirdWorlds eBook Series

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  • The Millennium Development Goals: Challenges, Prospects and Opportunities

    Edited by Nana Poku, Jim Whitman ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    As the 15-year Millennium Development Goals approach their conclusion, we can now measure their larger successes and failures in more than ‘snapshot fashion; and we can begin to consider how best to shape the international development agenda for the coming decades based on what we have learned. But the performance and outlook for the MDGs can neither be reduced to the sum of its eight goals, nor ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • From Poverty to Power

    by Duncan Green ...
    This new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and food crises. From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • TTIP

    The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

    by Ferdi De Ville, Gabriel Siles-Brügge ...
    The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and job creation; claims that are wholeheartedly rejected by its critics, who regard TTIP as a direct assault on workers' rights, health and safety standards and public services.In this incisive analysis, ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • An Introduction to Non-Traditional Security Studies

    A Transnational Approach

    Edited by Mely Caballero-Anthony ...
    With the end of the Cold War, threats to national security have become increasingly non-military in nature. Issues such as climate change, resource scarcity, infectious diseases, natural disasters, irregular migration, drug trafficking, information security and transnational crime have come to the forefront. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Non-Traditional Security concepts. It ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Global Health and Global Health Ethics

    Edited by Solomon Benatar, Gillian Brock ...
    What can be done about the poor state of global health? How are global health challenges intimately linked to the global political economy and to issues of social justice? What are our responsibilities and how can we improve global health? Global Health and Global Health Ethics addresses these questions from the perspective of a range of disciplines, including medicine, philosophy and the social ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Cities in a Globalizing World

    Global Report on Human Settlements

    by Un-Habitat ...
    'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Africa's Urban Revolution

    by Doctor Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell ...
    The facts of Africa's rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural place. This lack of awareness and robust analysis means it is difficult to make a policy case for a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Beyond Gridlock

    by Thomas Hale, David Held ...
    It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Human Rights in Life and Death

    Basic Considerations for Development Planning

    by Oladele O. Arowolo ...
    There is no available information at this time. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Targeting Development

    Critical Perspectives on the Millennium Development Goals

    by Richard Black, Howard White ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The Millennium Development Goals accepted by the UN in 2000 are, along with the targets set by the OECD in 1996 the subject of this expertly written book. Is development achievable in the time frames given? How useful were the goals in the first place? How far have we come in solving the aching problems of the developing world? These questions and ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Sustainable Development Disciplines for Humanity

    Breaking Down the 5Ps—People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnerships

    Edited by Shujiro Urata, Kazuo Kuroda, Yoshiko Tonegawa ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Open Access book provides eight problem solving lectures for sustainable development for people, peace, and partnerships. Those are three of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): people, the planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships or “the 5Ps”.Each of these lectures is classified into one of the keywords for SDGs and based on the history of social thought, human ... Read more

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  • Global Economic Institutions

    by Willem Molle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    This book critically examines global economic institutions. It presents an accessible fluid history of globalization and explains how global public goods should be defined and how global economic institutions work. It also looks at the effect that major organizations - including the WTO, IMF and UNEP - have on areas such as finance, the environment ... Read more

    $68.99 USD