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  • Grassroots Environmental Action

    People's Participation in Sustainable Development

    by Dharam Ghai, Jessica M. Vivian ...
    Managing resources sustainably on the local level is essential for achieving the global goal of sustainable development. The importance of people's participation for sustainable development has recently become increasingly acknowledged yet there is little understanding of the multiple dimensions that such participation involves.Grassroots Environmental Action questions the viability of traditional ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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  • The Idealist

    Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

    by Nina Munk ...
    **NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYBloomberg • Forbes • The SpectatorRecipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award**A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew 26:11. Jeffrey Sachs—celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Blood Bankers

    Tales from the Global Underground Economy

    by James S Henry ...
    Like tentacles on a vast octopus, the firsthand investigations in The Blood Bankers all lead to one core. A financial detective of sorts, investigative journalist Jim Henry analyzes a range of scandals, including the looting of the Philippines by the Marcos family and the financial collapse of nations throughout the developing world. A rogues' gallery of international criminals owes its existence ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice

    Better Water Management for Development

    Edited by Roberto Lenton, Mike Muller ...
    Better water management will be crucial if we are to meet many of the key challenges of this century - feeding the worlds growing population and reducing poverty, meeting water and sanitation needs, protecting vital ecosystems, all while adapting to climate change. The approach known as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is widely recognized as the best way forward, but is poorly ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Children and Young People's Participation and Its Transformative Potential

    Learning from across Countries

    Edited by E.K.M. Tisdall, Andressa M. Gadda, Udi Mandel Butler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Bringing together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK, this book explores children and young people's involvement in public action. The contributors consider the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Communication for Another Development

    Listening before Telling

    by Wendy Quarry, Ricardo Ramirez ...
    This lively book argues that in the development process, communication is everything. The authors, world experts in this field as teachers, practitioners and theorists, argue that Communication for Development is a creative and innovative way of thinking that can permeate the overall approach to any development initiative. They illustrate their argument with vivid case studies and tools for the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Unexpected Outcomes

    How Emerging Economies Survived the Global Financial Crisis

    Edited by Leslie Elliott Armijo, Saori N. Katada, Carol Wise ...
    This volume documents and explains the remarkable resilience of emerging market nations in East Asia and Latin America when faced with the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. Their quick bounceback from the crisis marked a radical departure from the past, such as when the 1982 debt shocks produced a decade-long recession in Latin America or when the Asian financial crisis dramatically slowed ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Team Tanzania: A Personal Reflection of a Vine Trust Work Party Member

    by Melville Crosthwaite ...
    People talk of 'life-changing experiences'. This book describes such an event. Heading out to Tanzania as part of a Vine Trust Work Party to help some of the world's poorest children orphaned by Aids, this is the author's personal account of what happened. Both heart-warming and heart-rending, if you read this book, you will want to do something to help change the lives of others for the better. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moving People

    Sustainable Transport Development

    by Peter Cox ...
    The local and global environmental impacts of transport are more apparent than ever before. Moving People provides an attention-grabbing introduction to the problems of transport and the development of sustainable alternatives, focusing on the often misunderstood issue of personal mobility, as opposed to freight. Re-assessing the value and importance of non-motorized transport the author raises ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Regional Economic Outlook, April 2016, Sub-Saharan Africa

    Time for a Policy Reset

    by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND ...
    Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa as a whole has fallen to its lowest level in 15 years, though with large variation among countries in the region. The sharp decline in commodity prices has severely strained many of the largest economies, including oil exporters Angola and Nigeria, and other commodity exporters, such as Ghana, South Africa, and Zambia. At the same time, the decline in oil ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Agrarian Change, Migration and Development

    by Henry Veltmeyer ...
    The focus and concern of Agrarian Change, Migration and Development is the problem of labour migraton. Veltmeyer and Wise explore the dynamics and development implications of the migration processes set in motion by the capitalist mode of production. The dynamics of these processes are both international — in regard to the international or cross-border flows of labour migrants — and internal to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Modern Economic Development in Japan and China

    Developmentalism, Capitalism, and the World Economic System

    Edited by X. Huang ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The contributors provide a comparative analysis of the modern economic development of Japan and China that are often explained in frameworks of East Asian developmentalism, varies of capitalism or world economic system, and explore their broader significances for the rise and global expansion of modern economy. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD