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Foreign Aid in a World in Crisis
Shifting Geopolitics in the Neoliberal Era
Av Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
373 kr
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This book investigates the geopoliticisation of foreign aid in recent years, against a background of global overarching crises such as climate change, conflict, Covid-19, economic crisis, energy shortages and migration.Foreign aid has historically been understood as assisting both with the …
Practices of Citizenship in East Africa
Perspectives from Philosophical Pragmatism
Av Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated. In …
Political Ecology of Climate Change Adaptation
Livelihoods, agrarian change and the conflicts of development
Inbunden, 2014
2600 kr
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This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology framework, it argues that climate is not something ‘out there’ that we adapt to. Instead, it is part of the social and …
Monetizing and Localizing Foreign Aid
Evolving Paths and the Professionals Treading Them
Inbunden, 2026
2525 kr
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This book investigates the uneasy coexistence of two current policy pathways within international development: to monetize aid and simultaneously to localize it.It explores these paths through the experiences of the development experts who are treading them, notably those who hail from aid …
America and the Birth of Global Aid
Inbunden, 2026
2600 kr
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This book investigates the birth and early evolution of the international aid regime in the 1940s and 1950s, considering how America established a postwar economic order in which aid was balanced against the establishment of the IMF as an instrument of economic discipline.Through the combination of …
United States Assistance Policy in Africa
Exceptional Power
Häftad, 2019
754 kr
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From the end of WWII to the end of the Obama administration, development assistance in Africa has been viewed as an essential instrument of US foreign policy. Although many would characterise it as a form of aid aimed at enhancing the lives of those in the developing world, it can also be viewed as …
Informal Economy Revisited
Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future
Av Martha Chen, Françoise Carré
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority …
Power of Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa
Peace-building, Change, and Development
Av Ibrahim Natil, Chiara Pierobon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book investigates the power of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in the context of the post-Arab Spring era, as well as more long-standing challenges and constraints in the region. In recent years, local civil society actors have faced significant challenges from social …
Economic Neoliberalism and International Development
Inbunden, 2020
2600 kr
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This book provides a robust theoretical and empirical exploration of the interrelationship between economic neoliberalism and international development. Putting the experiences of developing and transitional economies centre stage, the book investigates how their economic policies compare with the …
Critical Reflections on Public Private Partnerships
Av Jasmine Gideon, Elaine Unterhalter
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book argues that despite the hype within many policy circles, there is actually very little evidence to support the presumed benefits of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in reducing poverty and addressing inequalities in the provision of and access to public services. Taking a cross-sectoral …
Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development
Rethinking Opportunities and Agency from a Human Development Perspective
Av Aurora Lopez-Fogues, Firdevs Melis Cin
Häftad, 2019
827 kr
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Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development investigates to what extent young people have access to fair opportunities, the factors influencing their aspirations, and how able they are to pursue these aspirations and to carry out their life plans. The book positions itself in the …
Chinese Hydropower Development in Africa and Asia
Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Global Dam-Building
Av Giuseppina Siciliano, Frauke Urban
Häftad, 2019
827 kr
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In recent years, both Chinese overseas investment and hydropower development have been topics of increasing interest and research, with Chinese actors acting as financiers, developers, builders and sub-contractors.Chinese Hydropower Development in Africa and Asia explores the governance and …
Global Business Cycles and Developing Countries
Av Eri Ikeda
Inbunden, 2019
1032 kr
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This book investigates how global business cycles impact the economies of developing countries. Global business cycles, the wave-like movements of economic expansion followed by contraction in aggregate economic activities, impact all economies comprising the global economy. The patterns being …
Political Participation and Democratic Capability in Authoritarian States
Av Lien Pham, Ance Kaleja
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book provides an innovative theoretical and empirical exploration of the political participation and democratic capability of people living in authoritarian states. Merging perspectives from sociology and political science, the book demonstrates that despite autocratic restrictions on …
Leadership and Organisational Culture in Development
Challenging Exceptionalism
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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This book uses organisational theory to explore how power and leadership operate in development organisations in different contexts and at different levels.Culture as a tool for enacting change is of particular importance within organisational and leadership analysis but often limiting. Notions of …
Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid
Beyond the Neoliberal Hegemony
Av Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This edited book provides a contemporary, critical and thought-provoking analysis of the internal and external threats to Western multilateral development finance in the twenty-first century. It draws on the expertise of scholars with a range of backgrounds providing a critical exploration of the …
Political Financing in Developing Countries
A Case from Ghana
Av Joseph Luna
Inbunden, 2019
1002 kr
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This book argues that to fully grasp the decision-making of politicians and political actors in developing countries, we must first understand how politicians finance their campaigns for office—and to whom they are indebted and expected to repay.Political Financing in Developing Countries focuses …
Global Architecture of Multilateral Development Banks
A System of Debt or Development?
Av Adrian Robert Bazbauers, Susan Engel
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book explores the evolution of the 30 functioning multilateral development banks (MDBs). MDBs have their roots in the growing system of international finance and multilateral cooperation, with the first recognisable MDB being proposed by Latin America in financial cooperation with the US in …
Sweden’s Research Aid Policy
The Role of Science in Development
Inbunden, 2023
2525 kr
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Science and technology have long been considered key for development, problem solving and education in low-income countries, and Sweden has been at the forefront of efforts in this area, as one of the first countries to formalize research aid.This book analyses how the Swedish Agency for Research …
Women and the UN
A New History of Women's International Human Rights
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies with relevance to the international human rights of …
Financializations of Development
Global Games and Local Experiments
Av Ève Chiapello, Anita Engels m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
655 kr
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Financializations of Development brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and intertwined financialization processes of developmental institutions, programs and policies. In recent years, the development …
Financializations of Development
Global Games and Local Experiments
Av Ève Chiapello, Anita Engels m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
2600 kr
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Financializations of Development brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and intertwined financialization processes of developmental institutions, programs and policies. In recent years, the development …
Media Power and Hegemony in South Africa
The Myth of Independence
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book critically explores how meanings of ‘independence’ are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, with a particular focus on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). Blessed Ngwenya questions the institutional, political economy and world …
Why States Matter in Economic Development
The Socioeconomic Origins of Strong Institutions
Inbunden, 2024
2600 kr
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This book examines the underlying conditions that give rise to states that are effective, efficient, and bureaucratically inclusive with their developmental policies.In spite of humanity’s significant advancements in science, technology and institutionalization of universal human rights conventions …
Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid
Beyond the Neoliberal Hegemony
Av Viktor Jakupec, Max Kelly m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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This edited book provides a contemporary, critical and thought-provoking analysis of the internal and external threats to Western multilateral development finance in the twenty-first century. It draws on the expertise of scholars with a range of backgrounds providing a critical exploration of the …
Barriers to Effective Civil Society Organisations
Political, Social and Financial Shifts
Av Ibrahim Natil, Vanessa Malila m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book provides an insight into the historical changes and present-day circumstances that have influenced, and continue to influence, the development and future of civil society.Civil society organisations (CSOs) play a crucial role in international development, however their impact on policy …
Barriers to Effective Civil Society Organisations
Political, Social and Financial Shifts
Av Ibrahim Natil, Vanessa Malila m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
651 kr
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This book provides an insight into the historical changes and present-day circumstances that have influenced, and continue to influence, the development and future of civil society.Civil society organisations (CSOs) play a crucial role in international development, however their impact on policy …
Informal Economy Revisited
Examining the Past, Envisioning the Future
Av Martha Chen, Françoise Carré
Häftad, 2022
716 kr
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This landmark volume brings together leading scholars in the field to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy as well as future challenges and directions for research and policy. Well over half of the global workforce and the vast majority …
Engendering Transformative Change in International Development
Häftad, 2020
639 kr
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The Sustainable Development Goals were launched in 2015 with grand ambitions for ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all, with ‘no one left behind’. However, these goals will be impossible to achieve without addressing inequity, inequality, marginalisation, and …
Women-Owned SMEs in Emerging Markets
The Missing Link in Global Supply Chains
Inbunden, 2021
2600 kr
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This book investigates women as business owners in emerging markets, documenting the structural difficulties they face as a result of their seeking access to global supply chains, and demonstrating the ways in which they are rewriting norms and challenging market assumptions. Although women own an …
