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  • Making Democratic Decentralization Work in South Asia

    Looking Back and Ahead

    Edited by Durga P Chhetri, Prabhat Kumar Datta, R. Lalitha S. Fernando, Aly Shameem ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume examines the impact of decentralized governance in South Asia, focusing on historical and contemporary efforts in rural and urban areas. Written with the ultimate goal of developing an understanding of how local governance contributes to democracy, development, and citizen empowerment, the book highlights the importance of democratic decentralization, political will, and ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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  • The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex

    Edited by Crystal A. Ennis, Nicolas Blarel ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The Gulf is a major global destination for migrant workers, with a majority of these workers coming from South Asia. In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of this migration corridor.Going beyond state-centric analysis, the contributors present a multi-layered account of the ... Read more

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  • The Durable Slum

    Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

    by Liza Weinstein ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Understanding India's New Political Economy

    A Great Transformation?

    Edited by Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge ...
    A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.Filling a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Strategic Consequences of India's Economic Performance

    by Sanjaya Baru ...
    In this book, Sanjaya Baru, one of India’s most respected commentators on political and economic issues, pays close attention to the strategic consequences of India’s increasingly impressive economic performance. The new turn in India's economic policies and performance in the last decade of the twentieth century; the success of Indian enterprise in the post-WTO world; the emergence of a confident ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • South Asia Migration Report 2024

    Remittances, Resilience and Rehabilitation

    Edited by S Irudaya Rajan ...
    South Asia Migration Report 2024 documents key themes of remittances, resilience, and rehabilitation from the region.This volume:Includes dedicated fieldwork to map migration within and outside South AsiaAnalyses the impact of Covid-19 on migrants and migration in South AsiaHighlights the plight of Afghan migrants post-Taliban takeover in the countryThis book will be indispensable for scholars and ... Read more

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  • Modern Migrations

    Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and London

    by Maritsa Poros ...
    Although globalization seems like a recent phenomenon linked to migration, some groups have used social networks to migrate great distances for centuries. To gain new insights into migration today, Modern Migrations takes a closer look at the historical presence of globalization and how it has organized migration and social networks. With a focus on the lives of Gujarati Indians in New York and ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Fractured Throne

    India's Coalition Era and the Remaking of a Nation

    by Anindya Nandi ...
    The Fractured Throne: India's Coalition Era and the Remaking of a Nation offers a vivid and rigorously researched exploration of India's dramatic transition from single-party dominance to the age of coalitions. Anchored in the author's own journey as a young naval recruit in 1996—a year marked by political upheaval and the collapse of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's 13-day government—the book uses the ... Read more

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  • India and Global Governance

    A Rising Power and Its Discontents

    Edited by Harsh V Pant ...
    This volume explores India’s role in the global governance architecture post–Cold War. It shows how, with a rise in India’s capabilities, there is an expectation from its external interlocutors that New Delhi ought to play a larger global role. As Indian policymakers redefine their engagements in the global policy matrix, the chapters in the volume analyse India’s role as a challenger and a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Analysis of the Relationships Between Local Development NGOs and the Communities in Ethiopia: The Case of the Basic Education Sub-sector

    by Yoshiko Tonegawa ...
    This book is eye-opening: full of new findings on the realities of Local Development NGOs in Africa, which have received optimistic expectation that they could lead development in communities due to the closeness to people at the grass-root level. Through her exploration based on in-depth field research in rural areas of Oromia State, Ethiopia, the author eloquently reveals more complex realities ... Read more

    $13.07 USD

  • Sustainable Development Goals and Migration

    Edited by P. Sivakumar, S. Irudaya Rajan ...
    Series series Towards Sustainable Futures
    This book looks at migration in contemporary society and its interrelations with development. It presents the complexities and dilemmas associated with migration, the changes in theoretical and historical perspectives on migration and development, and the role of policies and the sustainable development goals in this context.The volume views migration as a phenomenon for advancing human ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Democratization from Above

    The Logic of Local Democracy in the Developing World

    by Anjali Thomas Bohlken ...
    Democratization from Above seeks to explain why some national and state governments in the developing world introduce reforms to make local governance more democratic while others neglect or actively undermine democracy at local levels of government. The study challenges conventional wisdom that local democratization is implemented as a means of granting more autonomy to local actors. Instead, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD