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  • Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America

    de I. Harbaugh ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Smallholders and the Non-Farm Transition in Latin America explores the drivers of agricultural displacement in Latin America and argues that government support is essential to help small farmers gain the skills, financial capital, and opportunities needed to transition to a profitable alternative in the non-farm sector. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development

    Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions

    de Matt Andrews ...
    Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Roots of Brazil

    de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ...
    Traducido por G. Harvey Summ ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... Leer más

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  • Rethinking Taxation in Latin America

    Reform and Challenges in Times of Uncertainty

    Edición de Jorge Atria, Constantin Groll, Maria Fernanda Valdés ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This study of taxation in Latin America takes a novel approach to the subject, using a framework that posits three dimensions for studying taxes—historical, relational, and transnational. The book argues that: first, taxation should be understood as a relational concept and tax systems as a function of a strategic nexus between the state and society; second, that any analysis of tax systems across ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Corruption in Cuba

    Castro and Beyond

    de Sergio Díaz-Briquets, Jorge F. Pérez-López ...
    While Fidel Castro maintained his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself would be succeeded—by a new government. Among the many questions to be answered was how the new government would deal with the corruption that has become endemic in Cuba. Even though combating corruption cannot be ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • The Logic of Charity

    Great Expectations in Hard Times

    de Beth Breeze, J. Mohan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    What is charity? How does it operate, who does it benefit and what should we expect it to do? This important book helps to tackle the most common misunderstandings and misconceptions of charitable activity in contemporary British society, especially insofar as these affect the thinking of politicians and policymakers. The authors present and discuss over a dozen studies, including public attitudes ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Military Missions in Democratic Latin America

    de David Pion-Berlin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book demonstrates through country case studies that, contrary to received wisdom, Latin American militaries can contribute productively, but under select conditions, to non-traditional missions of internal security, disaster relief, and social programs. Latin American soldiers are rarely at war, but have been called upon to perform these missions in both lethal and non-lethal ways. Is this ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Reimagineering the Nation

    Essays on Twenty-First-Century Sweden

    Edición de Aleksandra Ålund, Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Anders Neergaard ...
    Series Libro 4 - Political and Social Change
    This collection of essays offers a critical analysis of neoliberal transformation as it has unfolded in Sweden, long regarded as exemplary in terms of social welfare, equality and an inclusive multicultural democracy. The book presents a multidisciplinary exposition on Sweden, seen in a wider European perspective. It addresses changing frameworks of citizenship, welfare and democracy, migration ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Auditing Good Government in Africa

    Public Sector Reform, Professional Norms and the Development Discourse

    de M. Gustavson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book gives a comprehensive overview of the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa, and challenges the notions of African public officials presented there. It focuses on public audit institutions and offers rich empirical research results, which contradicts many assumptions made in the literature on development in Sub-Saharan Africa. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Making the Poor Free?

    India’s Unique Identification Number

    de S.K. Das ...
    While handing over the first set of 12-digit unique identification numbers to ten tribal families of Tembhli, a dusty village tucked away in a far corner of Maharashtra, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, 'UID will help hundreds of people in India, whose pride was hurt for so many years because of the lack of an identity. This will be their source of recognition from now on'. The Aadhaar ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh

    Reforms, Participation and Accountability

    de Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    Series Libro 8 - Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
    This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people’s participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP and its relation to social accountability, examine how much of the social participation is spontaneous ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Adaptation, Poverty and Development

    The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being

    Edición de D. Clark ...
    Series series Rethinking International Development series
    The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD