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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stephen mccloskey”
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  • From the Local to the Global

    Key Issues in Development Studies

    Edited by Gerard McCann, Stephen McCloskey ...
    The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights. Climate change has loomed large as a crisis for development practitioners and environmentalists, affecting the most vulnerable in the Global South. The ongoing financial crisis has created recurrent recessions in the global North, while causing budget lines to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Learning and International Development in the Age of Neoliberalism

    by Stephen McCloskey ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    This book argues that the international development sector is in crisis which can be mostly sourced to its side-stepping the dominant development question of our age, the neoliberal growth paradigm. It argues that this crisis can be addressed, at least in part, by the sector’s re-engagement with the radical development education process that it helped to foster and sustain for over two decades.The ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • International Human Rights, Social Policy and Global Development

    Critical Perspectives

    by Fred Powell, Stephen McCloskey, Shivaun Quinlivan, Charles O’Mahony, Fiona Donson, Cathal O'Connell, Joe Finnerty, Dessie Donnelly, Ann Marie Gray, Benjamin Mallon, Fiona Dukelow, Birgit Schippers, Daniel Holder, Michal Cenker, Giovanni Farese, Diana Buttu, Peter Herrmann ...
    With international human rights under challenge, this book represents a comprehensive critique that adds a social policy perspective to recent political and legalistic analysis.Expert contributors draw on local and global examples to review constructs of universal rights and their impact on social policy and human welfare. With thorough analysis of their strengths, weaknesses and enforcement, it ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Development Education in Policy and Practice

    by Stephen McCloskey ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Development education is a radical form of learning that addresses the structural causes of poverty and injustice in the global North and South. This volume debates development education practice and the policy environment in which it is delivered. It affirmatively points to the transformative power of education as a means toward social change. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development

    Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions

    by Matt Andrews ...
    Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make governments better because they are introduced as signals to gain short-term support. These signals introduce unrealistic best practices that do not fit developing country contexts and are not considered ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Walks, Tracks and Trails of Victoria

    by Derrick Stone ...
    For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 150 of the best walks, tracks or trails in Victoria, which can be walked, cycled or driven by the moderately fit individual. They are located in national and state parks, state forests, conservation reserves, historic parks and local government and public easements. Other routes follow state highways, old railways and gold ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Women in Governing Institutions in South Asia

    Parliament, Civil Service and Local Government

    Edited by Nizam Ahmed ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume examines policies aimed at increasing the representation of women in governing institutions in six South Asian countries. Divided into three parts, it addresses the implications of uniformity and diversity for the substantive representation of women in parliament, civil service and local government. The contributing authors explore the scope and limits of ‘positive ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Public Policies in Shared Societies

    A Comparative Approach

    by M. Fitzduff ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Communities throughout the world are increasingly diverse in their racial, ethnic and religious make up. Using examples drawn from over 50 countries in a variety of fields from economics to education, this book explores how governmental, economic and social institutions are adapting their policies to create more cohesive and peaceful societies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Strengthening Local Governance in Bangladesh

    Reforms, Participation and Accountability

    by Shuvra Chowdhury, Pranab Kumar Panday ...
    Series Book 8 - Public Administration, Governance and Globalization
    This book explores the impact of Bangladesh's Local Government Act of 2009 on the functioning of the local governments or Union Parishads (UP), with a particular emphasis on people’s participation and accountability. Throughout the chapters, the authors review the existing legal framework of UP and its relation to social accountability, examine how much of the social participation is spontaneous ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Planetary Passport

    Re-presentation, Accountability and Re-Generation

    by Janet McIntyre-Mills ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores the implications of knowing our place in the universe and recognising our hybridity. It is a series of self-reflections and essays drawing on many diverse ways of knowing. The book examines the complex ethical challenges of closing the wide gap in living standards between rich and poor people/communities. The notion of an ecological citizen is presented with a focus on ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Global Phenomena and Social Sciences

    An Interdisciplinary and Comparative Approach

    Edited by Ulrike Mayrhofer, Sophie Harnay, Jean-Sylvestre Bergé, Lionel Obadia ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers new perspectives on global phenomena that play a major role in today’s society and deeply shape the actions of individuals, organizations and nations. In a complex and rapidly changing environment, decision-makers need to gain a better understanding of global phenomena to adapt and to anticipate the evolution of the global context. The authors—ten renowned international scholars ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Design for Six Sigma for Service, Chapter 7 - Value Engineering

    by Kai Yang ...
    The following is a chapter from Kai Yang's Design for Six Sigma for Service. This comprehensive handbook aggressively tackles the difficulties involved in applying rigorous Six Sigma statistical methods to service environments. It delivers solid, effective solutions that can help your organization achieve measurable gains in customer satisfaction, cost reduction, value improvement, change ... Read more

    $6.99 USD