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  • Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World

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    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Sustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world has been identified as a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World is an introduction to the relationships between rural and urban places in the developing world and shows that not all their aspects are as obvious as migration from country to city. There is now a growing ... Leer más

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  • Spaces of Aid

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  • Asia-Africa Development Divergence

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    de David Henley ...
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  • Food Economics

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    Series series Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
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    de Amy Lind ...
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    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book brings a fresh, original approach to understand social action in China and Vietnam through the conceptual lens of informal environmental and health networks. It shows how citizens in non-democratic states actively create informal pathways for advocacy and the development of functioning civil societies. ... Leer más

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    Technology underpins human development. We need it to provide the very basics of a minimum standard of life – food, water, shelter, health and education. But a significant proportion of the world’s population do not have these basics today. And whilst a fifth of the world’s population lacks access to technologies fundamental to a basic standard of living, unfettered use of technology by those who ... Leer más

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  • Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh

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    Series Libro 8 - Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
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