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  • Dams, Power, and the Politics of Ethiopia's Renaissance

    by Dr Tom Lavers ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. After more than a decade of construction, Ethiopia is filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial dam with the potential to transform the ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers

    Edited by Tom Lavers ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The Politics of Distributing Social Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia provides a systematic analysis of the political processes shaping the distribution of ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa

    Edited by Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Jeremy Seekings, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice. Promoted as an integral dimension of the post-Washington Consensus all major international development agencies and bilateral donors now include a strong focus on social protection in their advocacy and programmatic ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’

    Political Order and Distributive Crisis

    by Tom Lavers ...
    Series Book 168 - African Studies
    Ethiopia stands out as a leading example of state-led development in Africa. Tom Lavers offers in this book a comprehensive, multi-sector analysis of Ethiopia's development project, examining how regimes maintain power during the extended periods required to bring about economic transformation. Specifically, Lavers explores how the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF, 1991 ... Read more

    $112.39 USD

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  • The European Union in Africa

    Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance?

    Edited by Maurizio Carbone ...
    The European Union in Africa: Incoherent policies, asymmetrical partnership, declining relevance? provides a comprehensive analysis of EU-Africa relations since the beginning of the twenty-first century and includes contributions from leading experts in the field of EU external relations. It seeks to explain how the relationship evolved through discussion of a number of different policies and ... Read more

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  • Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World

    by Pádraig Carmody ...
    Taking a critical and historical view, this text explores the theory and changing practice of international development. It provides an overview of how the field has evolved and the concrete impacts of this on the ground on the lives of people in the Global South.Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World covers the major theories of development, such as modernisation and dependency, in ... Read more

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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 Real Politics of the Horn of Africa

    Money, War and the Business of Power

    by Alex de Waal ...
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  • Refuge

    Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World

    by Paul Collier, Alexander Betts ...
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  • Does Foreign Aid Really Work?

    by Roger C. Riddell ...
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  • International Migration: A Very Short Introduction

    by Khalid Koser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why has international migration become an issue of such intense public and political concern? How closely linked are migrants with terrorist organizations? What factors lie behind the dramatic increase in the number of women migrating? This Very Short Introduction looks at the phenomenon of international human migration -- both legal and illegal -- to reveal that migration actually presents ... Read more

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