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  • The Political Economy of Sustainable Development

    Valuation, Distribution, Governance

    by Dirk Jacob Wolfson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author shows how sustainable development may be organized, valued and distributed by introducing situational contracting as an interactive and contextual mode of governance. Situational contracting provides a road map for where we want to go, serving the prevailing ideology in implementing the trade between efficiency and fairness. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Politics of Resource Extraction

    Indigenous Peoples, Multinational Corporations and the State

    Edited by S. Sawyer, E. Gomez ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Globalization and Corporate Citizenship: The Alternative Gaze

    A Collection of Seminal Essays

    Edited by Malcolm McIntosh ...
    The theory and practice of corporate citizenship and CSR have many alternative perspectives to the business-as-usual gaze. The essays in this volume encapsulate the essence of these alternative ideas and embrace the idea that progressive ways and means of this century do not lie in mainstream capitalist thinking. These pieces ask critical questions about the way we see the relationship between ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Least Developed Countries and the WTO

    Special Treatment in Trade

    by H. Hawthorne ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    A norm of special treatment for LDCs, created by the UN, has spread to various international organisations including the WTO. Within the WTO evidence of the institutionalization of the norm can be found both in the agreements and legal documents and the way in which the LDCs have been treated by other states. Helen Hawthorne investigates how norms impact on negotiations in international ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Decentring Development

    Understanding Change in Agrarian Societies

    by T. Jakimow ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The ways we understand processes of agrarian change are pressing issues for policy makers and development practitioners. Interpreting changes in two agrarian societies in India and Indonesia, the author reveals how transformations to self are critical factors shaping change, as well as under-recognized consequences of development initiatives. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Mixed Methods Research in Poverty and Vulnerability

    Sharing Ideas and Learning Lessons

    Edited by Keetie Roelen, Laura Camfield ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods approaches can make research more credible, usable and responsive to complexity. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance

    The Private-Public Policy Nexus in the Global Agora

    by D. Stone ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Diane Stone addresses the network alliances or partnerships of international organisations with knowledge organisations and networks. Moving beyond more common studies of industrial public-private partnerships, she addresses how, and why, international organisations and global policy actors need to incorporate ideas, expertise and scientific opinion into their 'global programmes'. Rather than ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Cost of Development in China

    by Guangyu Hu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book focuses on the future of China and its sustainable development, and summarizes the implications, forms, causes, countermeasures and related rules of the main costs generated during a country’s period of development, so as to provide a theoretical reference and decision-making consulting tools for institutions and scientific governance and management professionals.Combining China’s ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Towards Better Work

    Understanding Labour in Apparel Global Value Chains

    Edited by A. Rossi, A. Luinstra, J. Pickles ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Globalization of production has created opportunities and challenges for developing country producers and workers. This volume provides solutions-oriented approaches for promoting improved working conditions and labour rights in the apparel industry. ... Read more

    $89.09 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

    $49.49 USD

  • Justice, Sustainability, and Security

    Global Ethics for the 21st Century

    Edited by E. Heinze ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out our moral dimensions and offer prescriptions for how governments and global actors might craft their policies to better consider their effects on the global human condition. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Proletarianisation in the Third World

    Studies in the Creation of a Labour Force Under Dependent Capitalism

    Edited by Barry Munslow, Henry Finch ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1984, this collection of twelve case studies examines the emergence of a free wage-labour force in all regions of the third world. Although the struggle and conflict through which the proletariat has achieved a degree of class consciousness is not neglected, the more dominant theme is that of the process and techniques which have created a working class on the capitalist ... Read more

    $31.99 USD