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  • Searching for Paradise

    A Story of Chiefs, Gangs, Prime Ministers, and the God beyond the Clouds

    by Charles Nombo Lapa, Janet Dickson ...
    A warrior chief waited on a sacred mountain in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, seeking dreams and revelations from the spirit world. In the night he heard a voice, unlike any voice he had heard before. The voice called just one word, "Tiki!" It was the name of the chief's young son. Three times the call came, then there was silence. This book is the true story of Tiki. It is a story of chiefs, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Advancing Global Education

    by Janet R. Dickson, Barry B. Hughes, Mohammed T. Irfan ...
    Education is one of the most fundamental prerequisites to economic growth and social stability in the world. It is also one of the most inadequately realised goals of development, with the average education of global adults remaining essentially at primary levels. Advancing Global Education is the second in a series of volumes that explores prospects for human development-how development appears ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

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    A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

    Edited by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    This book is a unique guide to making the world a better place. Experts apply a critical eye to the United Nations' Sustainable Development agenda, also known as the Global Goals, which will affect the flow of $2.5 trillion of development aid up until 2030. Renowned economists, led by Bjorn Lomborg, determine what pursuing different targets will cost and achieve in social, environmental and ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Optimism : Reflections on a Life of Action

    by Bob Brown ...
    In Optimism, Bob Brown shares with us his stories and insights from throughout his public and private life, that reveal the events that have made an impression, the ideas that have caught his imagination, and the people that have stayed in his thoughts. This book reflects on the simple things, the moments that are meaningful, and the big questions that have concerned Bob Brown and inspired him to ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Development Economics

    Edited by M.R. Rosenzweig, Dani Rodrick ...
    Series Book 5 - Handbooks in Economics
    What guidance does academic research really provide to economic policy development? The critical and analytical surveys in this volume investigate links between policies and outcomes by surveying work from broad macroeconomic policies to interventions in microfinance. Asserting that there are no universal correspondences between policies and outcomes, contributors demonstrate instead that only an ... Read more

    $148.99 USD

  • Hawaii: From Origins To The End Of The Monarchy

    by Brien Foerster ...
    Hawaii is a group of islands known throughout the world for it's physical beauty, and is one of the most popular of tourist destinations. However, few visitors ever learn much about the Hawaiian people themselves and their history, dating back at least 2000 years.This book covers the origins of the Hawaiians, their traditions, royalty, and history up to the end of the 19th century, when Hawaii was ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Welfare State Revisited

    Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to combat inequality, support social justice, and even improve economic performance. In this book, José Antonio Ocampo and Joseph E. Stiglitz bring together distinguished contributors to examine the global variations of social programs and make the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Forbidden History

    by John Dudley Aldworth ...
    Did golden-haired celts settle the South Pacific over a 1000 years before Māori?"Forbidden History contends that there were people here before Māori. A great many of us have no trouble with that concept knowing that great seafaring civilisations go back very many thousands of years. In fact, it would be strange if other people had not been here prior to Moriori and Maori. Therefore why would we ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Equality For Women: Where Do We Stand?

    by Buvinic Mayra; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja; Ofosu-Amaah A. Waafas ...
    Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in the Millennium Declaration has spurred national and international efforts to improve women's ... Read more

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  • The Universal Social Safety-Net and the Attack on World Poverty

    Pressing Need, Manageable Cost, Practical Possibilities, Favourable Spillovers

    by Anthony Clunies-Ross, Mozammel Huq ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The book is concerned with strategy and tactics for directing that small slice of world income into filling the gap. This must be done country by country, on the initiative of each country’s government: with the maximum involvement of its own civil society, and with the rich world also making a contribution. To add momentum, the international community needs to adopt targets far more specific than ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Ancestral Lines

    The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest, Second Edition

    by John Barker ...
    This compelling ethnography offers a nuanced case study of the ways in which the Maisin of Papua New Guinea navigate pressing economic and environmental issues. Beautifully written and accessible to most readers, Ancestral Lines is designed with introductory cultural anthropology courses in mind. Barker has organized the book into chapters that mirror many of the major topics covered in ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Feminist Economics of Trade

    Edited by Irene van Staveren, Diane Elson, Caren Grown, Nilufer Cagatay ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations.It brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic perspectives, including structuralist, institutionalist, neoclassical and Post-Keynesian by a range of ... Read more

    $91.99 USD