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  • Planning African Development

    Edited by Glen Norcliffe, Tom Pinfold ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1981, this book concerns specifically the Kenyan experience with regards to development planning but, given that the problems of hunger poverty and underdevelopment manifest themselves in slightly different forms across all African countries, this book has considerable relevance to development planning across the African continent.The first set of essays in this collection ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    Vulnerability, Capacity, and Action

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    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Globalization

    The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change

    by Robert K. Schaeffer ...
    Understanding Globalization introduces students to the concept of globalization, providing an essential history, overview of key themes and theories, and a wealth of engaging examples. The fifth edition has been completely revised to connect with students today, opening with a discussion of the far-reaching causes and effects of the recent financial crisis and including new material on global ... Read more

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  • Development Cooperation and Emerging Powers

    New Partners or Old Patterns?

    by Adolfo Kloke-Lesch, Manmohan Agarwal, Ross Herbert, James Mackie, Enrique Saravia, Zhou Hong, Maximo Romero ...
    The current framework of development cooperation is dominated by the experiences of industrialized countries. But emerging economies have begun to accelerate their own development programmes, and attempts to bring them into existing aid models have been met with caution and reservation.This expert, topical volume explores the development policies of Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa, ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Governance through Development

    Poverty Reduction Strategies, International Law and the Disciplining of Third World States

    by Celine Tan ...
    Series series Law, Development and Globalization
    Governance through Development locates the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) framework within the broader context of international law and global governance, exploring its impact on third world state engagement with the global political economy and the international regulatory norms and institutions which support it. The PRSP framework has replaced the controversial structural adjustment ... Read more

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  • 1949 the First Israelis

    by Tom Segev ...
    Renowned historian Tom Segev strips away national myths to present a critical and clear-eyed chronicle of the year immediately following Israel’s foundation.“Required reading for all who want to understand the Arab-Israeli conflict…the best analysis…of the problems of trying to integrate so many people from such diverse cultures into one political body” (The New York Times Book Review).Historian ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The State and the Grassroots

    Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents

    Edited by Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernández-Kelly ...
    Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, from India to Colombia to Vietnam to the Congo, researchers from the United States, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Spain ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The History and Practice of Humanitarian Intervention and Aid in Africa

    Edited by B. Everill, J. Kaplan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The history of humanitarian intervention has often overlooked Africa. This book brings together perspectives from history, cultural studies, international relations, policy, and non-governmental organizations to analyze the themes, continuities and discontinuities in Western humanitarian engagement with Africa. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Development and Planning

    Essays in Honour of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan

    Edited by Jagdish Bhagwati, Richard Eckhaus ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    First published in 1972, this is a book of essays offered in honour of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the distinguished economist whose career started in mid-1920s Vienna and subsequently spanned Europe, Britain, the USA and many of the less developed countries of the world.The book includes reviews of past developments, chapters on development trade and value theory, an assessment of contemporary ... Read more

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  • Political Geographies of Piracy

    Constructing Threats and Containing Bodies in Somalia

    by B. VandeBerg ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines the increasing role of development organizations in securitization processes and argues that the new security-development counter piracy framework is (re)shaping political geographies of piracy by promoting disciplinary strategies aimed at the prevention and containment of gendered and racialized actions and bodies in Somalia. ... Read more

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  • Losing the Golden Hour: An Insider's View of Iraq's Reconstruction

    by James Stephenson ...
    In emergency medicine, ôthe golden hourö is the first hour after injury during which treatment greatly increases survivability. In post-conflict transition terminology, it is the first year after hostilities end. Without steadily improving conditions then, popular support declines and chances for economic, political, and social transformation begin to evaporate. James Stephenson believes we have ... Read more

    $16.95 USD