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  • Scaling Up Multiple Use Water Services

    by Barbara van Koppen ...
    Poor people in developing countries need water for many purposes: for drinking, bathing, irrigating vegetable gardens, and watering livestock. However, responsibility for water services is divided between different government agencies, the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and irrigation sub-sectors, with the result that people’s holistic needs are not met. Multiple use water services (MUS) is ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Scaling Up Multiple Use Water Services eBook

    Accountability in the water sector

    by Barbara van Koppen, Stef Smits, Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, John Thomas ...
    Poor people in developing countries need water for many purposes: for drinking, bathing, irrigating vegetable gardens, and watering livestock. However, responsibility for water services is divided between different government agencies, the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and irrigation sub-sectors, with the result that people’s holistic needs are not met. Multiple use water services (MUS) is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Why Global Development Is Succeeding--And How We Can Improve the World Even More

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    As the income gap between developed and developing nations grows, so grows the cacophony of voices claiming that the quest to find a simple recipe for economic growth has failed. Getting Better, in sharp contrast, reports the good news about global progress. Economist Charles Kenny argues against development naysayers by pointing to the evidence of widespread improvements in health, education, ... Read more

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  • Inside South Africa’s Foreign Policy

    Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki

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    South Africa is still the major-player in African diplomacy, its military resources far outstripping those of other nations on the continent. It also has traditionally taken the lead role in Africa's united negotiations with other power blocs. Yet the recent consensus has been that South Africa's diplomacy over the last decades has been a disappointing failure - from appearing to back the ... Read more

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  • The Slow Boil

    Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai

    by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria ...
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    Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they offer. In The Slow Boil, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria draws on his long-term fieldwork with these ... Read more

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  • The Flour Peddler

    A Global Journey into Local Food from Canada to South Sudan

    by Chris Hergesheimer, Josh Hergesheimer ...
    In 2008, a small-scale flour miller from British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast created a handmade bike mill to attract a dedicated farmers’ market following. Chris Hergesheimer wanted to challenge the belief that there is only one way—the big way—to grow, process and market grain and flour. For Chris and his family, it wasn’t about profit, but connecting a community to its food producers for better ... Read more

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  • Global Citizens

    Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization

    by Marjorie Mayo ...
    The dawn of the twenty-first century has been accompanied by an upsurge of anti-capitalist campaigning, challenging the very basis of the New World Economic order. Dramatic events such as the protests from Seattle to Genoa, have captured media headlines. But media headlines leave key questions unanswered, questions about the ultimate significance of the challenges posed by global social movements ... Read more

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  • Rise Of Singapore, The (In 2 Volumes)

    by Mark Tat Soon Hong, Amy V R Lugg ...
    In the 50th anniversary year of Singapore's independence, it is timely to trace our developmental journey in order that young Singaporeans students, visiting tourists and foreigners working in Singapore may be informed about why and how Singapore succeeded, despite tremendous odds. The two volumes relate the developmental stories and secrets of Singapore, so that other developing countries can be ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Argentina under the Kirchners

    by Marcela Lopez Levy ...
    In 2003 Néstor Kirchner took power in a country still reeling from financial meltdown. He set out to reverse the extreme neo-liberal policies of the 1990s, and ruled through heady years of unprecedented economic growth. Néstor was one half of a political couple -- his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner won the race for the top job in 2007 and they swapped roles. In 2011 she was voted in for a ... Read more

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  • Displacement Economies in Africa

    Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity

    Edited by Amanda Hammar ...
    Series series Africa Now
    Large-scale displacement - whether caused by war, state-related political or development projects, different forms of political violence, structural crisis, or even natural disasters - evokes many stereotyped assumptions about those forcibly displaced or emplaced. At the same time there is a problematic lack of attention paid to the diversity of actors, strategies and practices that reshape the ... Read more

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  • Rocks and Hard Places

    The Globalization of Mining

    by Roger Moody ...
    Series series Global Issues
    The world of international mining is changing rapidly. Mining corporations are encroaching on more and more greenfield sites in Africa, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America, to serve ever-expanding global industries.Moody shows that large-scale mining imposes a heavy toll on local communities, on their fragile economies and ways of life, as well as the environment. He challenges the mining ... Read more

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  • Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia

    Edited by M. Alston ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD