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  • Economics and Development Studies

    de Michael Tribe, Frederick Nixson, Andy Sumner ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Development studies textbooks and courses have sometimes tended to avoid significant economic content. However, without an understanding of the economic aspects of international development many of the more complex issues cannot be fully comprehended. Economics and Development Studies makes the economic dimension of discourse around controversial issues in international development accessible to ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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  • Food Policy for Developing Countries

    The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems

    de Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Derrill D. Watson II ...
    Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies. In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Thinking about Development

    de Bjorn Hettne ...
    Series series Development Matters
    This book is a concise and accessible introduction to development thinking, contemporary development theory and practice and - a critical analysis of the values that lie behind them. Hettne argues that schools of development thinking should be historically contextualized, not presented as evolving towards a universal theory. The book will present development as an 'essentially contested concept', ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Magnificent and Beggar Land

    Angola Since the Civil War

    de Ricardo Soares de Oliveira ...
    Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, it documents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international system since it emerged in 2002 from one of ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Localizing and Transnationalizing Contentious Politics

    Global Civil Society Movements in the Philippines

    de Joel F. Ariate Jr, Zuraida Mae D. Cabilo, Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem, Ma Glenda S. Lopez Wui, Thandika Mkandawire, Ronald C. Molmisa, Sharon M. Quinsaat ...
    The Philippines makes an interesting case for examining direct and collective acts of contention against the neoliberal project of economic globalization. Crippled by foreign debt, indiscriminate liberalization of trade, falling stock markets, and perpetual corruption, the Philippines is also a democratic polity and one of the few countries in Asia with a vibrant and dynamic civil society sector. ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • The Heart of Helambu

    Ethnography and Entanglement in Nepal

    de Tom O'Neill ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of his experiences working in Nepal during those turbulent times.In his autoethnographic memoir, O’Neill reflects ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Women in Governing Institutions in South Asia

    Parliament, Civil Service and Local Government

    Edición de Nizam Ahmed ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume examines policies aimed at increasing the representation of women in governing institutions in six South Asian countries. Divided into three parts, it addresses the implications of uniformity and diversity for the substantive representation of women in parliament, civil service and local government. The contributing authors explore the scope and limits of ‘positive ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation

    Edición de Philip McCann, Frank van Oort, John Goddard ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Smart specialisation is the new policy approach to the development of regional innovation systems across Europe and it involves fostering innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives which are well tailored to the local context. The different technologies, skills profiles, business activities, institutions and sectors which reflect a region’s economic strengths and potential are to be fostered and ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Elections in African Developing Democracies

    de Hilary Miezah ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book explores the organization, conduct and supervision of elections in emerging democracies. It covers the broad spectrum of the democratic electoral process. This project is a synthesis of the author’s practical knowledge and experience in the management of elections with the United Nations and other international organizations in Africa and Asia. The author addresses election practitioners, ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Human Rights-Based Change

    The Institutionalisation of Economic and Social Rights

    Edición de Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, Hans-Otto Sano ...
    This book provides different analytical perspectives into how human rights-based approaches to development (HRBADs) contribute to change. Based on the understanding that HRBADs are increasingly integrated into development and governance discourse and processes in many societies and organisations, it explores how the reinforcement of human rights principles and norms has impacted the practices and ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Small Arms Survey 2015

    Weapons and the World

    de Cambridge University Press ...
    The Small Arms Survey 2015 examines the role of weapons and armed violence in humanity's appropriation of the earth's wildlife and mineral riches - in Africa, where the poaching of elephants and rhinos is becoming increasingly militarised, and near resource extraction sites around the world. In addition to presenting updates on the UN small arms process and the top arms importers and exporters, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Globalization, Agriculture and Food in the Caribbean

    Climate Change, Gender and Geography

    Edición de Clinton L. Beckford, Kevon Rhiney ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The last decade has seen a growing body of research about globalization and climate change in the Caribbean. This collection is a significant addition to the literature on a topic that is of critical importance to the region. It explores research from a number of Caribbean islands dealing with a range of issues related to agriculture and food in the context of globalization and climate change. ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD