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  • Chronic Poverty

    Concepts, Causes and Policy

    Edited by A. Shepherd, J. Brunt ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance of assets and vulnerability, and conflict, and new thinking about the close relationship between social exclusion and adverse incorporation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis ... Read more

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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

  • How Can You Represent Those People?

    Edited by A. Smith, M. Freedman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    How Can You Represent Those People? is the first-ever collection of essays offering a response to the 'Cocktail Party Question' asked of every criminal lawyer. A must-read for anyone interested in race, poverty, crime, punishment, and what makes lawyers tick. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Caring in Crisis? Humanitarianism, the Public and NGOs

    by Irene Bruna Seu, Shani Orgad ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering. The book highlights what NGOs seek to achieve in their communications and explores how their approach and hopes match or don’t match what the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The European Union and Global Development

    An 'Enlightened Superpower' in the Making?

    Edited by S. Gänzle, S. Grimm, D. Makhan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    An assessment of the capacity of the EU to coordinate actors and policies with regards to global development. The authors argue that the EU and its member states have the potential to act for global development when they are able to improve policy and actor coherence, such as through better linking of bilateral and community programmes. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Learning, Capability Building and Innovation for Development

    Edited by G. Dutrénit, K. Lee, R. Nelson, L. Soete, A. Vera-Cruz ...
    Series series EADI Global Development Series
    Today, a large number of scholars studying development understand this process as involving learning and capability building. Capability building is an active, not a passive, process. It requires a purposeful effort from the learner's side, with support and commitment on allocation of time and resources toward learning activities. This process implies the possibility of failure as well as success, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Africa Toward 2030

    Challenges for Development Policy

    Edited by E. Lundsgaarde ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Combining studies of demography, climate change, technology and innovation, political development, new actors in international development, and global governance frameworks, this book highlights the major underlying determinants of change in the African context and key uncertainties about the continent's future development prospects. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Future of Foreign Aid

    Development Cooperation and the New Geography of Global Poverty

    by A. Sumner, R. Mallett ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Sumner and Mallett review the literature on aid in light of shifts in the aid system and the increasing concentration of the world's poor in middle-income countries. As a consequence, they propose a series of practical, policy relevant options for future development cooperation, with the aim of provoking discussion and informing policy. ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Delivering Aid Without Government

    International Aid and Civil Society Engagement in the Recovery and Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip

    by Tamer Qarmout ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In a fragile and conflict-ridden context such as the Gaza Strip, where the de facto Hamas government faces isolation and lacks international recognition, the provision of aid and development schemes challenges donors and CSOs delivering services to Palestinians. This volume examines how international donors influenced the reconstruction and recovery policy agenda as well as its implementation. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • International Development Policy

    Aid, Emerging Economies and Global Policies

    by Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    International development cooperation is undergoing a revolution. The authors question how far bilateral and multilateral aid agencies succeed in mainstreaming global issues in their operations and assess how emerging and traditional donors address competing objectives, often with diverging rationales. Cases include Brazil, China and South Africa. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Food Parcels in International Migration

    Intimate Connections

    Edited by Diana Mata-Codesal, Maria Abranches ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book takes food parcels as a vehicle for exploring relationships, intimacy, care, consumption, exchange, and other fundamental anthropological concerns, examining them in relation to wider transnational spaces. As the contributors to this volume argue, food and its related practices offer a window through which to examine the reconciliation of people’s localised intimate experiences with ... Read more

    $98.09 USD