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  • Food Aid After Fifty Years

    Recasting its Role

    by Christopher B. Barrett, Dan Maxwell ...
    Series series Priorities for Development Economics
    This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a greater understanding of this important subject matter. This book will prove vital to students of ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

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  • No Such Thing as a Free Gift

    The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

    by Linsey McGoey ...
    Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big businessThe charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Basic Income

    A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

    by Philippe Van Parijs, Yannick Vanderborght ...
    “Powerful as well as highly engaging—a brilliant book.”—Amartya SenA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekIt may sound crazy to pay people whether or not they’re working or even looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, has long been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • In Their Own Hands

    How Savings Groups Are Revolutionizing Development

    by Jeffrey Ashe, Kyla Jagger Neilan ...
    Two and a half billion people worldwide, most of them desperately poor villagers, need a better way to save and to borrow. Even the most innovative banking institutions can’t reach them; savings groups can.In savings groups, members save what they can in a communal pot and loan their growing fund to each other for their short-term needs. Jeffrey Ashe and Kyla Neilan illustrate how these savings ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Land Grabbers

    The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth

    by Fred Pearce ...
    How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Brazil Inside Out

    by Jan Rocha ...
    Seen as a successful ‘emerging economy’, Brazil walks tall on the world stage and its voice is growing louder. Its success, celebrated in the 2014 Football World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, is attracting millions of foreign tourists. Yet Brazil also faces huge challenges: to combine economic growth with measures to reduce the huge social inequality inherited from its slave-owning past, to ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The World Bank Group A to Z 2015

    by World Bank Group ...
    Series series The World Bank Group A to Z
    The World Bank Group A to Z provides the most concise and essential information about the mission, policies, procedures, products, and services of the new World Bank Group. With more than 280 entries arranged in encyclopedic A-to-Z format, readers can easily find up-to-date information about the five agencies of the World Bank Group and the wide range of areas in which they work: from agriculture, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Supply Chain Management for Humanitarians

    Tools for Practice

    by Gyöngyi Kovács, Karen Spens, Ira Haavisto ...
    Supply Chain Management for Humanitarians provides an in-depth insight into the management of supply chains in the context of humanitarian logistics. This accessible and practical book considers humanitarian logistics from a strategic and operational perspective.The overarching theme is collaboration and coordination, one of the biggest challenges in the humanitarian community. Supply Chain ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • When Helping Heals

    by Tracy Kuperus, Roland Hoksbergen ...
    Series series Calvin Shorts
    Is it possible to work in international development without hurting those we are trying to help?Over the last few decades, evangelical Christians in the United States have moved from an open embrace of development work (e.g. short term missions, poverty alleviation strategies like microenterprise, child sponsorship) to a more critical assessment (e.g. When Helping Hurts, Serving with Eyes Wide ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Myanmar’s Integration with the World

    Challenges and Policy Options

    Edited by Prabir De, Ajitava Raychaudhuri ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book comprehensively investigates the challenges to Myanmar’s access to the global market. Myanmar is a late entrant in the global trade and investment scenario after years of isolation. However, it has large untapped potentials for trade and investment in minerals, agro and forest based industries, other labour intensive industries, services like tourism, IT, etc. Different chapters of the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • IMF Lending to Developing Countries

    Issues and Evidence

    by Graham Bird ...
    Series series Development Policy Studies Series
    As the linchpin of the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund provides the balance of payments support, chiefly to developing countries, conditional on strict remedial policy measures. Its approach to policy remains highly controversial, however. While the Fund claims it has adapted, critics allege its policies are harshly doctrinaire, imposing hardships on already poverty ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Education and Development

    Edited by Roger M. Garrett ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1984, this collection represents the combined contributions to an international conference held at the University of Bristol in April 1983. In assessing the complex relationship between education and development, it covers a wide range of countries in its appraisal and presents pictures both of optimism and pessimism. All, however, encourage the reader to re-examine long-held ... Read more

    $65.99 USD