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  • A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty

    How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy

    de George Lodge, Craig Wilson ...
    World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist with the International Finance Corporation, argues that the solution lies in the creation of a new institution, the World ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 2 Appeasing Jakarta

    Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy

    de John Birmingham ...
    Series Libro 2 - Quarterly Essay
    In the second Quarterly Essay, John Birmingham takes apart the folly of twenty-five years of Australian policy on East Timor. How did Gough Whitlam and Richard Woolcott in 1975 saddle this country with a policy that was bound to lead to the intervention of 1999? Why were shrewder voices ignored and why did we persist with an unworkable model? Where does this leave us with an Indonesia still ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Identity Destabilised

    Living in an Overheated World

    Edición de Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Elisabeth Schober ...
    The world is overheated: Too full and too fast; out of sync, contradiction-ridden and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.This collection explores social identities in today’s ‘overheated’ world, seen from an anthropological perspective. The focus is on contradictions, tensions and paradoxes ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • To End a Civil War

    Norway's Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka

    de Mark Salter ...
    Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crushing defeat of the Tamil Tigers at the hands of the Sri Lanka Army. But prior to this grim finale, for some time there had been hope for a peaceful end to the conflict. ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Health and Poverty

    Global Health Problems and Solutions

    de Gijs Walraven ...
    There is growing interest and concern about the unacceptable differentials in health between and within countries. This comes out of the realization that poor people will only be able to prosper, and emerge from poverty, if they enjoy better health. Healthy populations are a precondition for sustainable development.Using a novel combination of the personal studies of patients and description of ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Quality Of Life In Latin American Cities: Markets And Perception

    de Lora Eduardo; Powell Andrew; van Praag Bernard M.S.; Sanguinetti Pablo ...
    This book explores a new method of monitoring the quality of urban life, combining objective and subjective information to assess quality of life by using the market price of housing and individuals' life satisfaction in six Latin American cities: Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lima, Medellin, Montevideo and San Jose. Housing prices show how the market values characteristics of not only a house itself, but ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Coffee Paradox

    Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development

    de Benoit Daviron, Stefano Ponte ...
    Can developing countries trade their way out of poverty? International trade has grown dramatically in the last two decades in the global economy, and trade is an important source of revenue in developing countries. Yet, many low-income countries have been producing and exporting tropical commodities for a long time. They are still poor. This book is a major analytical contribution to ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Organic Agriculture for Sustainable Livelihoods

    Edición de Niels Halberg, Adrian Muller ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    This book provides a timely analysis and assessment of the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for rural development and the improvement of livelihoods. It focuses on smallholders in developing countries and in countries of economic transition, but there is also coverage of and comparisons with developed countries. It covers market-oriented approaches and challenges for OA as part of high value ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Multinational Corporations from Emerging Markets

    State Capitalism 3.0

    Edición de A. Nölke ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The rise of multinational corporations (MNCs) from emerging markets has been a major development during the last decade. An important feature of emerging market MNCs is their close relationship with home states. The book investigates this special kind of relationship and explores how it affects the cross-border activities of these corporations. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Participation Pays

    Edición de Tom Thomas ...
    The processes of international development often mean that beneficiaries have pre-designed programmes imposed upon them. Even the most well-intentioned development projects are often constrained by funding requirements from fulfilling their vision of social justice, with the result that poor, marginalized communities feel even more disempowered and excluded by programmes over which they have no ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Economic Reform in India

    Challenges, Prospects, and Lessons

    Edición de Nicholas C. Hope, Anjini Kochar, Roger Noll, T. N. Srinivasan ...
    The essays in this volume are written by leading economists working on the Indian economy. They collectively emphasize the importance of policies and institutions for sustained growth and poverty reduction, stressing that the success of sector-specific policies is vitally dependent on the nature of markets and the functioning of institutions such as those charged with regulating and overseeing ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

    de A. Estache, Q. Wodon ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of the poor have been met in Sub-Saharan Africa. Estache and Wodon explore the extent to which some key policies have hurt or helped progress in trying to speed the expansions of coverage so clearly needed in the region. They focus on electricity, water, sanitation, and other ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD