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  • Navigating Complexity in International Development eBook

    Facilitating sustainable change at scale

    de Danny Burns, Stuart Worsley ...
    International development interventions often fail because development experts assume that our world is linear and straightforward when in reality it is complex, highly dynamic and unpredictable. Things rarely happen in the way that they were planned. The dominance of logical planning models in international development therefore needs to be challenged and replaced by a complexity-based ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Governance for Development in Africa

    Solving Collective Action Problems

    de David Booth, Diana Cammack ...
    Drawing on in-depth empirical research spanning a number of countries in Africa, Booth and Cammack's path-breaking book offers both an accessible overview of issues surrounding governance for development on the continent, whilst also offering a bold new alternative. In doing so, they controversially argue that externally imposed 'good governance' approaches make unrealistic assumptions about the ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Dancing Bears

    True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny

    de Witold Szablowski ...
    Traducido por Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    ***As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered*“Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review“Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to UnfreedomAn incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Asia-Africa Development Divergence

    A Question of Intent

    de David Henley ...
    Why have South-East Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam been so successful in reducing levels of absolute poverty, while in African countries like Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania, despite recent economic growth, most people are still almost as poor as they were half a century ago?This book presents a simple, radical explanation for the great divergence in development performance ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Tropical Deforestation

    A socio-economic approach

    de C. J. Jepma ...
    The depletion of the tropical rain forests has attracted considerable attention in recent times, and the serious consequences for the global biosphere are widely acknowledged. Yet deforestation continues apace, and in some areas (for example, southeast Asia) the very existence of the forests is seriously threatened. Contrary to popular belief, evidence suggests that local economic and living ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Foreign Aid for Development

    Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda

    Edición de George Mavrotas ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new 'big push' approach accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals or will another ... Leer más

    $136.99 USD

  • The Economics of International Development

    Foreign Aid versus Freedom for the World's Poor

    de William Easterly, Sylvie Aboa-Bradwell, Christian Bjørnskov, Abigail Hall-Blanco ...
    Foreign aid and overseas military intervention have been important and controversial political topics for over a decade. The government’s controversial target to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on foreign aid has been widely welcomed by some, but strongly criticised by others. Furthermore, the controversy of the Iraq war rumbles on, even today. This is all happening amongst much instability ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • The Great Gap

    Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America

    Edición de Merike Blofield ...
    The relationship between socioeconomic inequality and democratic politics has been one of the central questions in the social sciences from Aristotle on. Recent waves of democratization, combined with deepened global inequalities, have made understanding this relationship ever more crucial. In The Great Gap, Merike Blofield seeks to contribute to this understanding by analyzing inequality and ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Women and Development in the Third World

    de Janet Momsen ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Development
    For all societies, the common denominator of gender is female subordination. For women of the Third World the effects of this position are worsened by economic crisis, the legacy of colonialism, as well as patriarchal attitudes and economic crises. Feminist critique has introduced the gender factor to development theory, arguing that the equal distribution of the benefits of economic development ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor

    de Douglas Kammen ...
    Series series Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
    One of the most troubling but least studied features of mass political violence is why violence often recurs in the same place over long periods of time. Douglas Kammen explores this pattern in Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor, studying that region’s tragic past, focusing on the small district of Maubara.Once a small but powerful kingdom embedded in long-distance networks of trade, over ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Power Shift

    On the New Global Order

    de Richard Falk ...
    This book depicts the challenges associated with the emergence of a new global order in which patterns of conflict and the role of traditional military power are in the process of radical flux.Our ideas about global order have yet to catch up with these new behavioral trends, including the rise of non-state transnational political actors in the context of neoliberal globalization. In this ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Alternative Discourses on Modernization and Development

    East Asian Perspectives

    de Kim Kyong-Dong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This cutting edge work offers an alternative perspective on existing paradigms of modernization and development that originated in the West from the vantage point of non-western, late-modernizing societies. It considers how East Asian philosophical ideas enrich the reformulation of the concept of development or societal development, and how influential principles of traditional culture such as yin ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD