Elements in Global Development Studies – serie
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25 produkter
Mobile (for) Development
When Digital Giants Take Care of Poor Women
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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With their widespread use in the Global South, mobile phones are attracting growing interest from international aid actors and local authorities alike, who are positioning mobile technology as a growth driver and a solution to many social problems. Initiated by giants of the digital industry, these …
The Problem of Private Health Insurance
Insights from Middle-Income Countries
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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Financial markets, actors, institutions and technologies are increasingly determining which kinds of services and 'welfare' are available, how these are narrated, and what comes to represent the 'common sense' in the policy world and in everyday life. This Element problematises the rationale and …
Investor States
Global Health at The End of Aid
Häftad, 2023
393 kr
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This Cambridge Elements on Global Development Studies volume applies the lens of 'investor state' to a pattern of cross-border activities emerging at the end of aid. Using a series of case studies, the volume examines the growth of a trend where states operate as, with and for investors in the …
Going Public
The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare
Av Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element highlights the pivotal role of corporate players in universal health coverage ideologies and implementation, and critically examines social innovation-driven approaches to expanding primary care in low-income settings. It first traces the evolving meanings of universal …
Global Health Worker Migration
Problems and Solutions
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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International skilled heath worker migration is a key feature of the global economy, a major contributor to socio-economic development and reflective of the transnationalization of health and elder care that is underway in most OECD nations. The distribution of care and health workforce planning …
Temporary Migrants from Southeast Asia in Australia
Lost Opportunities
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Much of the scholarship in development studies focuses on developing countries. However, many of the same issues can be seen in developed countries, where migrants now constitute a sizeable proportion of the poor and politically disenfranchised. In immigrant receiving countries such as Australia, …
Displacement in War-Torn Ukraine
State, Displacement and Belonging
Häftad, 2023
393 kr
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This Element offers a multi-scalar perspective on the transformational effects of war and dislocation on people's sense of belonging. It begins with an examination of the brief historical and socio-demographic profiles of Crimea and the Donbas, stages of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, main …
Emigration States
Migration-Development Policymaking in the Asia-Pacific
Av Matt Withers
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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Guestworker migration has become an increasingly prominent feature within the economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific. Longstanding regional disparities have underscored the emergence of fragile remittance economies where a structural reliance on labour-export has offered an unsustainable 'fix' for …
The Tolerance of Informality
State, Religion and Property in China
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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Today's resurgence of global strife, polarization and neo-nationalism is unprecedented in intensity since the end of the Cold War. Against the backdrop of such dramatic changes, there is anxiety leading many to cling to certitudes that the world is made up of clear-cut divisions: developed versus …
The Whip of Global Finance
International Monetary and Financial Subordination and (Under)development
Av Pablo G. Bortz, Annina Kaltenbrunner m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
311 kr
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The Element presents a Minskyan conceptualization to analyse the International Monetary and Financial Subordination (IMFS) of developing and emerging economies (DECs), with a focus on its transformations in the 21st century. We examine changes in external assets and liabilities of DECs, trace their …
Development Subjectivities, Governmentality, and Migration Management in the Pacific
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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To advance the debates around temporary migration in the Pacific, a governmentality framework contributes to understanding social and historical relations produced by migration management at regional, country, and individual scales. The Recognised Seasonal Employer's (RSE) scheme, the Pacific …
Going Public
The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare
Av Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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This Element highlights the pivotal role of corporate players in universal health coverage ideologies and implementation, and critically examines social innovation-driven approaches to expanding primary care in low-income settings. It first traces the evolving meanings of universal …
Development Subjectivities, Governmentality, and Migration Management in the Pacific
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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To advance the debates around temporary migration in the Pacific, a governmentality framework contributes to understanding social and historical relations produced by migration management at regional, country, and individual scales. The Recognised Seasonal Employer's (RSE) scheme, the Pacific …
The Tolerance of Informality
State, Religion and Property in China
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Today's resurgence of global strife, polarization and neo-nationalism is unprecedented in intensity since the end of the Cold War. Against the backdrop of such dramatic changes, there is anxiety leading many to cling to certitudes that the world is made up of clear-cut divisions: developed versus …
The Problem of Private Health Insurance
Insights from Middle-Income Countries
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Financial markets, actors, institutions and technologies are increasingly determining which kinds of services and 'welfare' are available, how these are narrated, and what comes to represent the 'common sense' in the policy world and in everyday life. This Element problematises the rationale and …
Emigration States
Migration-Development Policymaking in the Asia-Pacific
Av Matt Withers
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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Guestworker migration has become an increasingly prominent feature within the economic landscape of the Asia-Pacific. Longstanding regional disparities have underscored the emergence of fragile remittance economies where a structural reliance on labour-export has offered an unsustainable 'fix' for …
The Whip of Global Finance
International Monetary and Financial Subordination and (Under)development
Av Pablo G. Bortz, Annina Kaltenbrunner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Element presents a Minskyan conceptualization to analyse the International Monetary and Financial Subordination (IMFS) of developing and emerging economies (DECs), with a focus on its transformations in the 21st century. We examine changes in external assets and liabilities of DECs, trace their …
Ageing Migrant Labour
Futures of Domestic Workers in Asia
Av Megha Amrith
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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Who cares for the ageing bodies of those who have long laboured for the wellbeing of others? This Element focusses on ageing migrant domestic workers who have spent decades abroad in Singapore and Hong Kong on precarious temporary contracts, and how they imagine and prepare for their ageing …
Ageing Migrant Labour
Futures of Domestic Workers in Asia
Av Megha Amrith
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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Who cares for the ageing bodies of those who have long laboured for the wellbeing of others? This Element focusses on ageing migrant domestic workers who have spent decades abroad in Singapore and Hong Kong on precarious temporary contracts, and how they imagine and prepare for their ageing …
Border Control without Walls
Managing Migration with Foreign Aid
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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Immigration to Western nations has risen sharply, fueling political backlash and the ascent of far-right, nativist policymakers who favor restrictive migration policies. Yet such restrictions are unlikely to succeed over the long term because they fail to address the root causes that drive people …
Border Control without Walls
Managing Migration with Foreign Aid
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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Immigration to Western nations has risen sharply, fueling political backlash and the ascent of far-right, nativist policymakers who favor restrictive migration policies. Yet such restrictions are unlikely to succeed over the long term because they fail to address the root causes that drive people …
When Formalization Fails
The Credibility of Informality in China's Resettlement Communities
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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Globally, states use rural-to-urban resettlement to fuel development, yet this formal process consistently generates its own informalities. Using a comparative case study of China-contrasting its affluent coast with its poorer hinterland-this book reveals how informality not only persists after …
When Formalization Fails
The Credibility of Informality in China's Resettlement Communities
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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Globally, states use rural-to-urban resettlement to fuel development, yet this formal process consistently generates its own informalities. Using a comparative case study of China-contrasting its affluent coast with its poorer hinterland-this book reveals how informality not only persists after …
The Refugee Trap
The Economics of Displacement
Av Alexander Betts, Naohiko Omata m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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Refugee movements are one of the defining issues of the Twenty-First Century. But what difference does it actually make to be a refugee? To what extent are refugees economically distinctive compared to citizens or other groups of migrants? Drawing upon original data collected in camps and cities …
The Refugee Trap
The Economics of Displacement
Av Alexander Betts, Naohiko Omata m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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Refugee movements are one of the defining issues of the Twenty-First Century. But what difference does it actually make to be a refugee? To what extent are refugees economically distinctive compared to citizens or other groups of migrants? Drawing upon original data collected in camps and cities …
