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  • Africa at a Turning Point?

    Growth, Aid, and External Shocks

    Edited by Delfin Sia Go, John Page ...
    Since the mid-1990s, sub-Saharan Africa has experienced an acceleration of economic growth that has produced rising incomes and faster human development. However, this growth contrasts with the continent's experience between 1975 and 1995, when it largely missed out on two decades of economic progress. This disparity between Africa's current experience and its history raises questions about the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Pathways to Job Creation and Development in Africa

    The Promise of Industries without Smokestacks

    Edited by Haroon Bhorat, Brahima Coulibaly, Richard Newfarmer, John Page ...
    Creating productive jobs for growing a labor force is both one of the world’s greatest challenges as well as one of its greatest economic opportunities, and one of the most consequential global megatrends. Nowhere is the job creation challenge more acute than for young people in Africa. In response to this challenge and to also address Africa’s structural economic transformation, the Africa Growth ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Changemakers

    Radical Strategies for Social Movement Organising

    by Jane Holgate, John Page ...
    Crafted for those who dare to challenge the status quo, this is a radical guide for activists.Drawing from frontline experiences in trade unions, environmentalism, animal rights, and social justice movements, the book explores essential themes from leadership to the art of negotiation. It asks crucial questions about organising and social movements in the 21st century.Avoiding easy prescriptions, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Public Property, Law and Society

    Owning, Belonging, Connecting in the Public Realm

    by John Page ...
    This book examines the almost entirely neglected realm of public property, identifying and describing a number of key organizing principles around which a nascent jurisprudence of public property may be developed.In property law terms, the public realm is lost to plain view. Despite the vast acreage of public lands, or the extensive tracts of private lands over which public rights subsist, there ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Mining for Change

    Natural Resources and Industry in Africa

    Edited by John Page, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks. Countries dependent on oil, gas, and mining have tended to have weaker long-run growth, higher rates of poverty, and greater income inequality than less resource-abundant economies. For these resource producing economies relative prices ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Japan’s Development Assistance

    Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda

    Edited by Yasutami Shimomura, John Page, Hiroshi Kato ...
    Once the world's largest ODA provider, contemporary Japan seems much less visible in international development. However, this book demonstrates that Japan, with its own aid philosophy, experiences, and models of aid, has ample lessons to offer to the international community as the latter seeks new paradigms of development cooperation. ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Industries without Smokestacks

    Industrialization in Africa Reconsidered

    Edited by Richard Newfarmer, John Page, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    By 2030 more than three quarters of the world's absolute poor are projected to live in Africa. Accelerating economic growth is key to rising incomes on the continent, and central to this challenge is establishing activities that are capable of employing large numbers of unskilled workers, that can raise productivity through innovation, and that can power growth through exports. Such structural ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • The Practice of Industrial Policy

    Government—Business Coordination in Africa and East Asia

    Edited by John Page, Finn Tarp ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Much of the information relevant to policy formulation for industrial development is held by the private sector, not by public officials. There is therefore fairly broad agreement in ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Made in Africa

    Learning to Compete in Industry

    by Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand ...
    The role of industry in low income countries is important. Industry is good for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. All of these factors depend on the size and the rate of growth of industry. Africa doesn’t have enough industry to reach the Sustainable Development Goals for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about three ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Property Diversity and its Implications

    by John Page ...
    Property is more diverse than is usually assumed. Developing the concept of property diversity, this book explores the varied role of property in placed human landscapes. In acknowledging the propertied diversity about us, the book highlights the paucity of our settled contemporary assumptions of property as defined by private ownership. Challenging this universalizing model, the book analyses how ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Marriage Killers: 7 Surefire Strategies to Ruin Your Relationship...If That's What You Want

    by Dr. John Page ...
    Dr. John Page has created a heavily facetious handbook of seven foolproof ways to destroy a relationship, complete with case studies drawn from his own experiences. His relationship-killing strategies include not listening to ones signifi cant other, keeping finances completely separate, watching porn and denigrating a spouses family and friends. Once readers wade through the sarcasm, Page offers ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Grow the Best Tomatoes

    Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-189

    by John Page ...
    Series Book 189 - Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin
    Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD