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  • China's Development Challenges

    Economic Vulnerability and Public Sector Reform

    by Richard Schiere ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
    This book argues that a major potential source of social tension in transition and developing countries is not poverty as such, but vulnerability: that is, the risk of becoming poor. It demonstrates how in China many of the recent reforms to the public sector, such as decentralisation from central to local government, especially fiscal decentralisation; the reduction in public services provided by ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Food Policy for Developing Countries

    The Role of Government in Global, National, and Local Food Systems

    by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Derrill D. Watson II ...
    Despite technological advances in agriculture, nearly a billion people around the world still suffer from hunger and poor nutrition while a billion are overweight or obese. This imbalance highlights the need not only to focus on food production but also to implement successful food policies. In this new textbook intended to be used with the three volumes of Case Studies in Food Policy for ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Magnificent and Beggar Land

    Angola Since the Civil War

    by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira ...
    Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, it documents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international system since it emerged in 2002 from one of ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Landscapes of Fear

    Understanding Impunity in India

    Edited by Patrick Hoenig, Navsharan Singh ...
    Drawing on the findings of a comparative research project, this volume tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. How do victims of abuse and survivors of sexual violence end up being denied justice? What do those on the margins—those with the wrong sex, wrong identity markers, wrong political leanings— tell us about violence by state and non-state actors ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century

    The Literary Agenda

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    Series series The Literary Agenda
    The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • First World Hunger Revisited

    Food Charity or the Right to Food?

    Edited by G. Riches, T. Silvasti ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisited investigates the rise of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as effective and sustainable responses to increasing hunger and food poverty in twelve rich 'food-secure' societies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Scottish Economy

    A Living Book

    Edited by Kenneth Gibb, Duncan Maclennan, Des McNulty, Michael Comerford ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    The Scottish economy is at the heart of contemporary constitutional and public policy debates. This substantial new edited collection, the first comprehensive and authoritative analysis for more than 60 years, is a timely update on the classic volume of the same name edited by Sir Alec Cairncross in 1954. It is data rich, and offers links to updatable data and leading indicators of the Scottish ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa

    Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania

    by Mary Louisa Plummer, Daniel Wight ...
    New infections with HIV remain an urgent problem among young people in Africa, but many young Africans pursue sexual relationships with little thought about the epidemic. This book examines young people's sexual relationships in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa and investigates why the risk of HIV infection generally was not a salient concern for them. It is based on an extraordinarily ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • The Invisible Houses

    Rethinking and designing low-cost housing in developing countries

    by Gonzalo Lizarralde ...
    Winner of the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award!There is an increased interest among architects, urban specialists and design professionals to contribute to solve "the housing problem" in developing countries. The Invisible Houses takes us on a journey through the slums and informal settlements of South Africa, India, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and many other countries of ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Regional Disparities in the Enlarged European Union

    Geography, innovation and structural change

    by Valentina Meliciani ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    The last twenty years have seen an increase in European integration and the emergence of the technological revolution. Although tighter integration coupled with technological innovation should facilitate cross-regional convergence, some European regions have managed to jump ahead while others have been left behind. This book examines the regional characteristics that favour growth and analyses the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Sustainable Human Development

    A New Territorial and People-Centred Perspective

    by M. Biggeri, A. Ferrannini ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Integrating Amartya Sen's approach with the literature on place-based territorial development processes, this book recognises the interplay between the evolution of local development systems and the expansion of individual and collective capabilities. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Transport Planning for Third World Cities (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Harry T. Dimitriou ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Cities within the developing world experience a form of urban development which is different to those in more industrialised countries. Rates of growth are usually much more dramatic, housing and transport are often provided informally, and institutional support for urban management is also much weaker. The crux of this book, first published in 1990, lies in the idea that urban transport planning ... Read more

    $80.99 USD