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  • The Private Sector's Role in Poverty Reduction in Asia

    de Scott Hipsher ...
    Series series Chandos Asian Studies Series
    The private sector has an important role in poverty reduction in Asia. The Private Sector's Role in Poverty Reduction in Asia argues that the best way to create sustainable projects is to create win-win situations where both private companies and individuals working their way out of poverty can benefit. The book provides a practical guide for managers and individuals working in the private sector ... Leer más

    $125.99 USD

  • Poverty Reduction, the Private Sector, and Tourism in Mainland Southeast Asia

    de Scott Hipsher ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the issue of poverty reduction within mainland Southeast Asia with a specific focus on the impact of the private sector and tourism. Covering Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Yunnan, the book discusses how success in poverty reduction has come about largely through innovation in the private sector, foreign investment and the move toward more market based economic ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Wealth Creation Approach to Reducing Global Poverty

    de Scott Hipsher ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book takes a unique approach to the topic of poverty reduction, primarily employing an international business framework as opposed to the usual economic or political lens. Some of the key ideas explored in the book include: poverty is primarily the lack of choices, not the lack of material possessions; attacking inequality of opportunity might be a more effective means to reduce poverty than ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • Business Practices in Southeast Asia

    An interdisciplinary analysis of theravada Buddhist countries

    de Scott A. Hipsher ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    This is an international business study of Theravada Buddhist Southeast Asia. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the book examines business practices within a political, cultural, economic and religious context. It highlights those cultural and historical ties of the region which are shared because of a common religion. In analysing business environments, economics and government practices ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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  • Slumming It

    The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

    de Fabian Frenzel ...
    Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People

    Themes and Case Studies

    Edición de Melinda Smale, Marc Cohen ...
    Series series Development in Practice Books
    This book examines the effects of high and volatile food prices during 2007-08 on low-income farmers and consumers in developing, transition, and industrialized countries. Previous studies of this crisis have mostly used models to estimate the likely impacts. This volume includes actual evidence from the field as to how higher prices affected access to food and farm income among poor people. In ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Development Cooperation

    Challenges of the New Aid Architecture

    de S. Klingebiel ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The aims of and motives for development cooperation have changed significantly in recent times. Besides pursuing short- and longer-term objectives in their own economic, foreign policy and other interests, donors usually have a recognisable and genuine interest in assisting countries in their processes of development. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    de Joseph E. E. Stiglitz ...
    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals

    A Critical Look Forward

    Edición de Alberto Cimadamore, Gabriele Koehler, Thomas Pogge ...
    Series series International Studies in Poverty Research
    As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda. By examining current development efforts, goals and ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Cultural Due Diligence in Hospitality Ventures

    A Methodological Approach for Joint Ventures of Local Communities and Companies

    de Nicole Häusler ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book introduces readers to a powerful method for cross-cultural due diligence in mergers and organizational collaborations. It employs the context of joint ventures between local communities and companies in the domain of hospitality in emerging tourism destinations.The book first analyzes the impact of cultural diversity in mergers between local communities and the private sector, revealing ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Strumpet City

    Bestselling Irish novel with an introduction by Fintan O'Toole

    de James Plunkett ...
    Centring on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers in Dublin in 1913, Strumpet City by Irish writer James Plunkett encompasses a wide sweep of city life. From the destitution of "Rashers" Tierney, the poorest of the poor, to the solid, aspirant respectability of Fitz and Mary, the priestly life of Father O'Connor, and the upper-class world of Yearling and the Bradshaws, it paints a portrait of a ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Food Insecurity

    Key Features, Indicators, and Response Design

    de Maria Sassi ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of key aspects of food insecurity, including definitional and conceptual issues, information systems and data sources, indicators, and policies. The aim is to equip readers with a sound understanding of the subject that will assist in the recognition of food insecurity and the design of suitable responses. The early chapters discuss the evolution and ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD