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Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism
Civil Societies at Crossroads
Av Rajesh Tandon, L. David Brown
Häftad, 2020
693 kr
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Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism is the result of a collaborative research project spanning Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. The book analyses internal and external challenges to civil society in more than twenty countries. It investigates through studies of ountries …
Participatory Research and Gender Analysis
New Approaches
Av Nina Lilja, John Dixon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1530 kr
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Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination. Its effective application …
Achieving Education for All through Public–Private Partnerships?
Non-State Provision of Education in Developing Countries
Av Pauline Rose
Inbunden, 2010
1486 kr
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Concern for achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 has led to a focus on the role that non-state providers (NSPs) can offer in extending access and improving quality of basic services. While NSPs can help to fill a gap in provision to those excluded from state provision, recent …
Child Protection in Development
Av Michael Bourdillon, William Myers
Inbunden, 2012
2525 kr
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Every day millions of children in developing countries face adversities of many kinds, yet there is a shortage of sound evidence concerning their plight and an urgent need to identify the most appropriate and effective policy responses from among the multiple approaches that exist. This collection …
Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People
Themes and Case Studies
Inbunden, 2011
2144 kr
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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 …
Religion, Religious Organisations and Development
Scrutinising religious perceptions and organisations
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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This collection adds to a burgeoning literature concerned with the roles played by religions in development. The authors do not assume that religion and religious organisations can be ‘used’ to achieve development objectives, or that religiously inspired development work is more holistic, …
Child Protection in Development
Av Michael Bourdillon, William Myers
Häftad, 2012
710 kr
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Every day millions of children in developing countries face adversities of many kinds, yet there is a shortage of sound evidence concerning their plight and an urgent need to identify the most appropriate and effective policy responses from among the multiple approaches that exist. This collection …
Achieving Education for All through Public–Private Partnerships?
Non-State Provision of Education in Developing Countries
Av Pauline Rose
Häftad, 2013
491 kr
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Concern for achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 has led to a focus on the role that non-state providers (NSPs) can offer in extending access and improving quality of basic services. While NSPs can help to fill a gap in provision to those excluded from state provision, recent …
Participatory Research and Gender Analysis
New Approaches
Av Nina Lilja, John Dixon m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
505 kr
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Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination. Its effective application …
Religion, Religious Organisations and Development
Scrutinising religious perceptions and organisations
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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This collection adds to a burgeoning literature concerned with the roles played by religions in development. The authors do not assume that religion and religious organisations can be ‘used’ to achieve development objectives, or that religiously inspired development work is more holistic, …
Endogenous Development
Naïve Romanticism or Practical Route to Sustainable African Development
Av Chiku Malunga, Susan Holcombe
Häftad, 2017
798 kr
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Western ideas, worldviews, actors, tools, models, and frameworks have long dominated development theory and practice in Africa. The resulting development interventions are too rarely locally rooted, locally driven, or resonant with local context. At the same time, theories and practices from …
Global Food-Price Shocks and Poor People
Themes and Case Studies
Häftad, 2014
578 kr
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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 …
Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism
Civil Societies at Crossroads
Av Rajesh Tandon, L. David Brown
Inbunden, 2014
2526 kr
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Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism is the result of a collaborative research project spanning Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. The book analyses internal and external challenges to civil society in more than twenty countries. It investigates through studies of ountries …
Endogenous Development
Naïve Romanticism or Practical Route to Sustainable African Development
Av Chiku Malunga, Susan Holcombe
Inbunden, 2015
2525 kr
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Western ideas, worldviews, actors, tools, models, and frameworks have long dominated development theory and practice in Africa. The resulting development interventions are too rarely locally rooted, locally driven, or resonant with local context. At the same time, theories and practices from …
