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Rethinking Development eBook Series

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  • Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences

    by Dirk-Jan Koch ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences, both negative and positive. This book delves into these consequences, providing a fresh and comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing them.The book starts by laying out a theoretical framework based on complexity thinking, before going on to explore the ten most prevalent kinds of ... Read more

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  • About Canada: Immigration

    by Nupur Gogia, Bonnie Slade ...
    Series Book 4 - About Canada
    Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and Slade challenge these myths with a thorough investigation of the realities of immigrating to Canada. Examining historical immigration policies, the authors note that these policies were always ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment For Policies: An Instrument For Good Governance

    by Ahmed Kulsum; Sanchez-Triana Ernesto ...
    Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans. This book focuses on SEA applied to policies. Through lessons learned from previous use of SEA on policies, it draws lessons on the strengths and weaknesses of current SEA ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Margaret B. Holland, Yuta J. Masuda, Brian E. Robinson ...
    This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security and ... Read more

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  • Educating Children in Conflict Zones

    Research, Policy, and Practice for Systemic Change--A Tribute to Jackie Kirk

    by Karen Mundy, Sarah Dryden-Peterson ...
    Inspired by the work of the late Dr. Jacqueline Kirk, this book takes a penetrating look at the challenges of delivering quality education to the approximately 39 million out-of-school children around the world who live in situations affected by violent conflict. With chapters by leading researchers on education in war and other conflict zones, the volume provides a comprehensive and critical ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Cities in a Globalizing World

    Global Report on Human Settlements

    by Un-Habitat ...
    'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa

    Knowledge Co-production from the South

    Edited by Ntombini Marrengane, Sylvia Croese ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cities and Development
    This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population.Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the ... Read more

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  • Child Brides, Global Consequences

    How to End Child Marriage

    by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon ...
    One-third of the world's girls are married before the age of eighteen, limiting both their educational and economic potential. Child marriage is damaging to global prosperity and stability, yet despite the urgency of the issue, there remains a significant lack of data on the subject. Senior Fellow Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses both the factors that contribute to and strategies that have proved ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • An Unfinished Foundation

    The United Nations and Global Environmental Governance

    by Ken Conca ...
    Why is the United Nations not more effective on global environmental challenges? The UN Charter mandates the global organization to seek four noble aspirations: international peace and security, rule of law among nations, human rights for all people, and social progress through development. On environmental issues, however, the UN has understood its charge much more narrowly: it works for "better ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty

    Edited by Laurence Chandy, Hiroshi Kato, Homi Kharas ...
    Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty-defined by the $1.25-a-day poverty line-over the past three decades. This success has sparked renewed enthusiasm about the possibility of eradicating extreme poverty within a generation. However, progress is expected to become more difficult, and slower, over time. This book will examine three central changes ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Beyond Gridlock

    by Thomas Hale, David Held ...
    It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Human Rights in Life and Death

    Basic Considerations for Development Planning

    by Oladele O. Arowolo ...
    There is no available information at this time. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD