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“maneka weddikkara”

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  • Poverty Reduction that Works

    Experience of Scaling Up Development Success

    by Paul Steele, Neil Fernando, Maneka Weddikkara ...
    �This book provides an excellent framework to analyse the experience of a wide variety of successful initiatives across the world and draws attention to critical issues that practitioners need to think about when designing poverty reduction interventions and scaling up.�Bill Tod, Regional MDG Adviser, SNV Asia�With its wide regional coverage, and frank discussions of issues and problems ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Geopolitics is a way of looking at the world: one that considers the links between political power, geography, and cultural diversity. In certain places such as Iraq or Lebanon, moving a few feet either side of a territorial boundary can be a matter of life or death, dramatically highlighting the connections between place and politics. Even far away from these 'danger zones' - in Europe or the US ... Read more

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  • Ancestral Lines

    The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest

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    More than a century of interaction with colonial and global agencies and forces have brought many changes to the lives of the Maisin people who live on the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Yet ancestral traditions continue to strongly inform their way of life. Their beautifully designed tapa cloth, made from the pounded inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, most vividly connects the past ... Read more

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  • Unholy Trinity

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  • Brazil

    Neoliberalism versus Democracy

    by Alfredo Saad-Filho, Lecio Morais ...
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  • Free Trade

    Myth, Reality and Alternatives

    by Graham Dunkley ...
    Series series Global Issues
    In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to today's world-dominating globalization project. The more euphoric globalists uncritically assume that it has universal and unequivocal benefits for all people and countries. And the perpetual negotiations of the World Trade Organization are wholly based ... Read more

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  • Confronting the Weakest Link

    Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies

    by Thomas Carothers ...
    Beset with persistent problems of self-interest, corruption, ideological incoherence, and narrow electoral majorities, political parties are the weakest link in many democratic transitions around the world. A large and ever-growing number of U.S., European, and multilateral assistance programs seek to help parties become effective pro-democratic actors. But given the depth of the problems, is ... Read more

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  • New Media and International Development

    Representation and affect in microfinance

    by Anke Schwittay ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    New Media and International Development is the first in-depth examination of microfinance’s enduring popularity with Northern publics. Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world’s first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international development efforts have an affective dimension. This is fostered through narrative and visual ... Read more

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  • The Determinants of Small Firm Growth

    An Inter-Regional Study in the United Kingdom 1986-90

    by Richard Barkham, Graham Gudgin, Mark Hart ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    One of the most striking trends in economic development since the 1970s has been the rising importance of the small firm. Focusing on the issues of enterprise development and the regional dimensions of small-firm growth, this book explores the literature of this area. Moving from an analysis of measures of growth to the effects of both internal and external variables - arguing that the owner ... Read more

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  • Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa

    Edited by Ute Röschenthaler, Dorothea Schulz ...
    Series series Routledge African Studies
    This book seeks to widen perspectives on entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the diverse and partly new forms of entrepreneurial practice in Africa since the 1990s. Contrary to widespread assertions, figures of success have been regularly observed in Africa since pre-colonial times. The contributions account for these historical continuities in entrepreneurship, and identify the specifically ... Read more

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  • State Formation and Radical Democracy in India

    by Manali Desai ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
    State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better life chances. Going back to pre-independence, colonial India, Manali Desai takes a long historical ... Read more

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  • Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization

    Edited by Linden Lewis ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    Many of the nations of the Caribbean that have become independent states have maintained as a central, organizing, nationalist principle the importance in the beliefs of the ideals of sovereignty, democracy, and development. Yet in recent years, political instability, the relative size of these nations, and the increasing economic vulnerabilities of the region have generated much popular and ... Read more

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