Rethinking International Development series – serie
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38 produkter
Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
International Assistance to the Asia-Pacific
Av Simon Feeny, Matthew Clarke
Inbunden, 2009
552 kr
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This book examines how international aid donors and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) can assist countries in the Asia-Pacific region achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The book examines the progress countries have made towards the MDGs and highlights the need to tailor the goals to …
Challenging Capacity Building
Comparative Perspectives
Inbunden, 2010
537 kr
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Interrogates the idea of capacity building theoretically and explores the variety of meanings, constructions and practices of capacity building. This book examines capacity building in both developing and developed countries and takes the position that fragile communities are present in all …
Transforming Participation?
The Politics of Development in Malawi and Ireland
Av N. Gaynor
Inbunden, 2010
552 kr
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Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals? Or do they co-opt and coerce groups to reinforce existing inequitable relations? In an innovative comparative study which breaks with tradition this book explores these questions by looking at Malawi and …
Social Movements in the Global South
Dispossession, Development and Resistance
Av S. Motta, A. Gunvald Nilsen
Inbunden, 2011
1098 kr
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Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This book shows how social movements in Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East politicize …
Migration and Social Protection
Claiming Social Rights Beyond Borders
Av Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Rayah Feldman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1098 kr
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The growing scale of international migration has reshaped the debate on the social rights and social protection available to people outside their countries of origin. This book uses conceptual frameworks, policy analysis and empirical studies of migrants to explore international migrants' needs for …
International Migration, Development and Human Wellbeing
Av Katie Wright
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and …
Africa Toward 2030
Challenges for Development Policy
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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Combining studies of demography, climate change, technology and innovation, political development, new actors in international development, and global governance frameworks, this book highlights the major underlying determinants of change in the African context and key uncertainties about the …
China, India and the End of Development Models Indian Edition
Av Xiaoming Huang, Alex C. Tan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
569 kr
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Promoting the understanding of the impressive economic growth and social transformation in China and India, the authors demonstrate the diverse economic, political, social, cultural, international and historical conditions in these two developing countries and point out the theoretical problems of …
Children in Crisis
Seeking Child-Sensitive Policy Responses
Av Caroline Harper, Ronald U. Mendoza m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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Experts from the global North and South analyze the implications of economic crises on children, with a particular focus on the emerging evidence from the recent global economic crisis and food and fuel price volatility of 2008-2010. They point out key policy responses deployed by governments and …
Adaptation, Poverty and Development
The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being
Av D. Clark
Inbunden, 2012
552 kr
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The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa.
Transnational Corporations and Development Policy
Critical Perspectives
Av E. Rugraff, D. Sánchez-Ancochea
Inbunden, 2008
552 kr
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This volume offers a wide-reaching exploration of foreign direct investment and developmental impacts through case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central Europe, also examining the role of 'new players' such as Chinese, Indian and South African TNCs.
Challenging the Aid Paradigm
Western Currents and Asian Alternatives
Av J. Sörensen
Inbunden, 2010
1425 kr
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Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western, especially Chinese, aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.
Chronic Poverty
Concepts, Causes and Policy
Av A. Shepherd, J. Brunt
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance of assets and vulnerability, and conflict, and new thinking about the close relationship between social exclusion and adverse incorporation.
Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts
Fragile, Failed, Pariah
Av A. Ware
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This edited volume explores development in the so-called 'fragile', 'failed' and 'pariah' states. It examines the literature on both fragile states and their development, and offers eleven case studies on countries ranking in the 'very high alert' and 'very high warning' categories in the Fund for …
Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation
Concepts, Methods and Applications
Av David Alexander Clark, Mario Biggeri m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1297 kr
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This book explores the linkages between Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and participatory forms of development – especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up. It shows how the capability approach and the participatory movement can complement and reinforce …
Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection
Towards a Development Revolution?
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s. The author gives a detailed overview of the history of social protection and identifies the factors that …
Development Challenges and Solutions After the Arab Spring
Av Ali Kadri
Inbunden, 2015
569 kr
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Since the events of 2011, most Arab countries have slipped into a state of war, and living conditions for the majority of the working population have not changed for the better. This edited collection examines the socioeconomic conditions and contests the received policy framework to demonstrate …
Fragmentation of Aid
Concepts, Measurements and Implications for Development Cooperation
Av Timo Casjen Mahn, Mario Negre m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1534 kr
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This edited volume provides an assessment of an increasingly fragmented aid system. Development cooperation is fundamentally changing its character in the wake of global economic and political transformations and an ongoing debate about what constitutes, and how best to achieve, global development. …
Securitization of Foreign Aid
Av Stephen Brown, Jörn Grävingholt
Inbunden, 2015
1425 kr
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Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western countries give aid, to whom and why. With contributions from experts in the field, this book examines the impact of security issues on six of the world's largest aid donors, as well as on key crosscutting issues such as gender …
Social Movements and the State in India
Deepening Democracy?
Av Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Inbunden, 2016
1316 kr
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Questions of the extent to which social movements are capable of deepening democracy in India lie at the heart of this book. In particular, the authors ask how such movements can enhance the political capacities of subaltern groups and thereby enable them to contest and challenge marginality, …
Challenging Capacity Building
Comparative Perspectives
Häftad, 2010
537 kr
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Interrogates the idea of capacity building theoretically and explores the variety of meanings, constructions and practices of capacity building. This book examines capacity building in both developing and developed countries and takes the position that fragile communities are present in all …
Social Movements in the Global South
Dispossession, Development and Resistance
Av S. Motta, A. Gunvald Nilsen
Häftad, 2011
1207 kr
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Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This book shows how social movements in Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East politicize …
Migration and Social Protection
Claiming Social Rights Beyond Borders
Av Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Rayah Feldman
Häftad, 2011
1098 kr
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The growing scale of international migration has reshaped the debate on the social rights and social protection available to people outside their countries of origin. This book uses conceptual frameworks, policy analysis and empirical studies of migrants to explore international migrants' needs for …
International Migration, Development and Human Wellbeing
Av Katie Wright
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and …
Africa Toward 2030
Challenges for Development Policy
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Combining studies of demography, climate change, technology and innovation, political development, new actors in international development, and global governance frameworks, this book highlights the major underlying determinants of change in the African context and key uncertainties about the …
Adaptation, Poverty and Development
The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being
Av D. Clark
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa.
Transnational Corporations and Development Policy
Critical Perspectives
Av E. Rugraff, D. Sánchez-Ancochea
Häftad, 2009
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume offers a wide-reaching exploration of foreign direct investment and developmental impacts through case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central Europe, also examining the role of 'new players' such as Chinese, Indian and South African TNCs.
Challenging the Aid Paradigm
Western Currents and Asian Alternatives
Av J. Sörensen
Häftad, 2010
1425 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western, especially Chinese, aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.
Chronic Poverty
Concepts, Causes and Policy
Av A. Shepherd, J. Brunt
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Based on a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume includes material on inter-generational transmission, the importance of assets and vulnerability, and conflict, and new thinking about the close relationship between social exclusion and adverse incorporation.
Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts
Fragile, Failed, Pariah
Av A. Ware
Häftad, 2014
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This edited volume explores development in the so-called 'fragile', 'failed' and 'pariah' states. It examines the literature on both fragile states and their development, and offers eleven case studies on countries ranking in the 'very high alert' and 'very high warning' categories in the Fund for …
