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  • Upshift

    Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity

    With over two decades' experience both observing and interpreting how people channel disaster into opportunity in the most extreme circumstances and environments on Earth, Ben Ramalingam has a unique vantage point from which to identify the key principles that can enable anyone to use stress as an opportunity for change.In Upshift, Ramalingam distils this expertise into an insightful, powerful, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aid on the Edge of Chaos

    Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World

    It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and to scale up what is already being done around the world. Others point to the flaws in aid, and bang the drum for cutting it ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

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    Upshift

    Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity

    Narrated by John Sackville ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    With over two decades’ experience both observing and interpreting how people channel disaster into opportunity in the most extreme circumstances and environments on Earth, Ben Ramalingam has a unique vantage point from which to identify the key principles that can enable anyone to use stress as an opportunity for change.In Upshift, Ramalingam distils this expertise into an insightful, powerful, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Dragon's Gift:The Real Story of China in Africa

    The Real Story of China in Africa

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  • Hunger in the Balance

    The New Politics of International Food Aid

    Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of successive global food crises. In Hunger in the Balance, Jennifer Clapp provides a timely and comprehensive account of the contemporary politics of food aid, explaining the origins and outcomes of recent ... Read more

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  • Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

    Foreign aid is now a $100bn business and is expanding more rapidly today than it has for a generation. But does it work? Indeed, is it needed at all? Other attempts to answer these important questions have been dominated by a focus on the impact of official aid provided by governments. But today possibly as much as 30 percent of aid is provided by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and over 10 ... Read more

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  • The Trouble with Aid

    Why Less Could Mean More for Africa

    Series series African Arguments
    Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems perfectly logical, doesn't it? Millions of people in the rich world, moved by images on television and appalled by the miserable conditions endured by so many in other countries, have joined campaigns to persuade their governments to double aid to Africa and help put an end to such shameful inequality.It seems simple. But it isn't. ... Read more

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  • Why We Lie About Aid

    Development and the Messy Politics of Change

    by Pablo Yanguas ...
    Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donor publics, are constantly told. The result is a highly dysfunctional aid system which mistakes short-term results for long-term transformation and gets attacked across the political spectrum, with the right claiming we spend too much, and the left that we don't spend enough.The ... Read more

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  • Ebola

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  • Foreign Aid for Development

    Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda

    Edited by George Mavrotas ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new 'big push' approach accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals or will another ... Read more

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