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  • Trade, Aid and Global Interdependence

    by George Cho ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Development
    There are complex interrelationships between trade, aid and development, and with the move to a greater integration of economies throughout the world, trade has become a vital factor in the economic, social and political development of Third World nations.Trade, Aid and Global Interdependence presents a concise analysis of this vast topic. Trade is introduced as a concept and as an activity; aid ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

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  • Encountering Development

    The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Africa

    Why Economists Get It Wrong

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series African Arguments
    'A valuable corrective to the fraying narrative of [African] failure.'Foreign AffairsNot so long ago, Africa was being described as the hopeless continent. Recently, though, talk has turned to Africa rising, with enthusiastic voices exclaiming the potential for economic growth across many of its countries.What, then, is the truth behind Africa's growth, or lack of it? In this provocative book, ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions eBook

    by Philip McMichael ...
    Series Book 3 - Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies
    Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime, formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, detailing new dimensions of the succession of imperial, intensive and corporate food regimes. Developing the methodological contributions of food regime analysis, McMichael re-examines the agrarian question historically and its present-day implications. He ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Congo Masquerade

    The Political Culture of Aid Inefficiency and Reform Failure

    by Theodore Trefon ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Congo Masquerade is about mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states. In this scathing study of catastrophic aid inefficiency, Trefon argues that whilst others have examined war and plunder in the Great Lakes region, none have yet evaluated the imported 'template format' reform package pieced together to introduce ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare

    A Critical Historical Survey

    by Matthias Beck, Sara Melo ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Quality Management and Managerialism in Healthcare creates a comprehensive and systematic international survey of various perspectives on healthcare quality management together with some of their most pertinent critiques. It reviews the factors which have underpinned the managerialist trajectory of healthcare management over the past decades. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism

    The Threat to International Security

    by Martin N. Murphy ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them?Piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, but the connections between organised piracy and wider criminal networks and corruption on land make it an element of a phenomenon that can have a weakening effect on states and a destabilising one on ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Development Crises and Alternative Visions

    Third World Women's Perspectives

    by Gita Sen, Caren Grown ...
    More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened.This book analyses three decades ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Feminists in Development Organizations eBook

    Change from the margins

    Edited by Rosalind Eyben, Laura Turquet ...
    Feminists in Development Organizations arises from a collaborative project of feminists working inside the head offices of multilateral organizations, government aid agencies and international NGOs.The personal stories in this book show that these feminists are ‘tempered radicals’ positioned on the border of the development agencies that employ them. It is a place where they are neither fully one ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Cultural Perspectives on Development

    Edited by Vincent Tucker ...
    What does cultural analysis have to offer development studies? Is culture a new paradigm for the study of development or a minefield of theoretical confusion? Can we move beyond notions of global culture' and local culture' to a more refined notion of cultural processes? This collection of articles addresses these issues providing a diversity of approaches. Two themes in particular run through the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Reviving Democracy

    Citizens at the Heart of Governance

    by Barry Knight, Rajesh Tandon ...
    The aim of this text is to analyze the conditions for a good society and, from extensive international research, to show how citizens can be put at the centre of the political process. This has enormous importance for future policy which the authors explore. With support from the Commonwealth Foundation, the book sets out to change the current political consensus and demonstrate the route forward ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • ASEAN's Engagement of Civil Society

    Regulating Dissent

    by Kelly Gerard ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers an innovative framework for understanding the role of civil society in regional and global policymaking. Using political economy analysis, Gerard demonstrates that ASEAN's people-oriented agenda builds legitimacy, while sidelining its detractors. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD