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Dams as Aid
A political anatomy of Nordic development thinking
Av Anne Usher, Ann Danaiya Usher
Inbunden, 1997
3082 kr
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Dams As Aid brings together key issues in the aid/environment/development debate. Through her examination of dams, Usher sheds light on wider issues of the political economy of aid.Detailed analysis of dams and aid case studies are included, particularly on Nordic dams which provide most graphic …
Cultural Resistance and Security from Below
Power and Escape through Capoeira
Av Zoë Marriage
Inbunden, 2019
2600 kr
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This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy. Illegal at the beginning of the twentieth century, capoeira is now a cultural institution and export that is protected by the …
Transnational Social Mobilisation and Minority Rights
Identity, Advocacy and Norms
Inbunden, 2019
2323 kr
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This book explores the ways in which minority groups across the world are reshaping the international minority rights protection system. It documents the actions of four major groups that are using transnational social mobilisation to achieve recognition of their identities and their rights. The …
Poverty Alleviation and Poverty of Aid
Pakistan
Av Fayyaz Baqir
Häftad, 2020
716 kr
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Aid effectiveness has emerged as an intensely debated issue amongst policy makers, donors, development practitioners, civil society and academics during the past decade. This debate revolves around one important question: does official development assistance complement, duplicate or disregard the …
Civil Society in the Global South
Häftad, 2020
714 kr
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In recent years civil society has been seen as a key route for democracy promotion and solving development ‘problems’ in low-income countries. However, the very concept of civil society is deeply rooted in European traditions and values. In pursuing civil society reform in non-Western countries, …
Gates Foundation's Rise to Power
Private Authority in Global Politics
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectories of international policy-making. Driven by fierce confidence and immense expectations about its ability to change the world through its normative and …
Inclusive Innovation for Development
Meeting the Demands of Justice through Public Action
Häftad, 2020
373 kr
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Innovation has the potential to address a number of development challenges such as combating poverty and delivering health services, but all too often technological progress has failed to consider the needs of the poor, and has actually served to increase inequalities, rather than sharing out the …
Women's Economic Empowerment
Insights from Africa and South Asia
Av Kate Grantham, Gillian Dowie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and …
Women's Economic Empowerment
Insights from Africa and South Asia
Av Kate Grantham, Gillian Dowie m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
651 kr
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This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and …
Cultural Resistance and Security from Below
Power and Escape through Capoeira
Av Zoë Marriage
Häftad, 2021
746 kr
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This book uses the Afro-Brazilian art of capoeira to examine how security has been pursued from below and what significance this has for security analysis and policy. Illegal at the beginning of the twentieth century, capoeira is now a cultural institution and export that is protected by the …
Social Innovations in Post-Soviet Countries
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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This book evaluates the evolution of social innovation in post-Soviet Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Following the dissolution of the USSR, organisations such as the UNDP have encouraged local communities and governments to innovate in order to find solutions to existing social …
Social Innovations in Post-Soviet Countries
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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This book evaluates the evolution of social innovation in post-Soviet Central Asia, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. Following the dissolution of the USSR, organisations such as the UNDP have encouraged local communities and governments to innovate in order to find solutions to existing social …
Prior Consultation of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
Inside the Implementation Gap
Av Claire Wright, Alexandra Tomaselli
Häftad, 2021
724 kr
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This book delves into the reasons behind and the consequences of the implementation gap regarding the right to prior consultation and the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.In recent years, the economic and political projects of Latin American States have …
Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda
Av Stephanie E.L. Bengtsson, Bilal Barakat m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
675 kr
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The Role of Education in Enabling the Sustainable Development Agenda explores the relationship between education and other key sectors of development in the context of the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda. While it is widely understood that there is a positive relationship …
Psychology of Aid
Av Stuart Carr, Mac MacLachlan m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
2525 kr
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Psychology of Aid provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing as it does on the social aspects of aid and the motivational foundations. Designed as a practical tool for looking at development projects in a new and structured way, the authors bring many of the …
Searching for Security
Women's Responses to Economic Transformations
Av Isa Baud, Ines Smyth
Inbunden, 1996
2759 kr
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Human Security is a development buzzword of the 1990s. To attain security people need to be safe from natural disasters, such as famine, and 'man-made' problems, such as unemployment. Women are a particularly insecure section of society with the impact of deprivation disproportionately shouldered …
Gender, Ethnicity and Place
Women and Identity in Guyana
Av Linda Peake, D. Alissa Trotz
Inbunden, 1999
2525 kr
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This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and …
Politics of Development Co-operation
NGOs, Gender and Partnership in Kenya
Av Lisa Aubrey
Inbunden, 1997
3082 kr
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First Published in 2004. The Politics of Development Cooperation interrogates the politics of interorganizational development cooperation, examining issues of power, autonomy, and dependence. Focusing on Kenya and in particular on Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (MYWO), the largest national women’s …
Life Region
The Social and Cultural Ecology of Sustainable Development
Av Per Raberg
Inbunden, 1997
3082 kr
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This book launches a strategy for sustainable development, starting from a socio-ecological position and developing a model for a socially and culturally supportive community, or 'Life Region'. Special emphasis is placed on the situation of the provincial and peripheral regions of Europe and the …
Housing and Finance in Developing Countries
Inbunden, 1998
2525 kr
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This book explores the linkages between formal and informal housing finance drawing upon the lessons of NGO and micro-finance practices. Both public and private formal finance institutions have experienced great difficulty in lending below a middle-income client group, and are often reluctant to …
Environment and Development in the Straits of Malacca
Inbunden, 1999
791 kr
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This unique study is the first in depth examination of the environment and development of the Straits. Taking an integrative approach, the book argues that the region has an underlying unity which political divisions (between Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore) disguise.Its emphasis is on three …
Peasants and Religion
A Socioeconomic Study of Dios Olivorio and the Palma Sola Religion in the Dominican Republic
Inbunden, 1999
3814 kr
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This book examines the relationship between economics, politics and religion through the case of Olivorio Mateo and the religious movement he inspired from 1908 in the Dominican Republic. The authors explore how and why the new religion was formed, and why it was so successful. Comparing this case …
Technical Knowledge and Development
Observing Aid Projects and Processes
Inbunden, 2001
2144 kr
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Development and aid projects often fail to improve technological capacity. Their reform has been a widely acknowledged challenge for three decades. This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organizational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development …
World Bank and Urban Development
From Projects to Policy
Inbunden, 2006
2489 kr
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As one of the world’s most powerful supranational institutions, the World Bank has played an important role in international development discourse and practice since 1946. This is the first book-length history and analysis of the Bank’s urban programs and their complex relationship to urban policy …
Poverty Orientated Agricultural and Rural Development
Inbunden, 2006
2525 kr
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Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that eighty per cent of the world's poor live …
Dislocation and Resettlement in Development
From Third World to the World of the Third
Av Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Kumar Dhar
Inbunden, 2009
2525 kr
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Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation. Interrogating the ‘reformist-managerial’ and ‘radical-movementist’ approaches, it …
Dislocation and Resettlement in Development
From Third World to the World of the Third
Av Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Kumar Dhar
Häftad, 2011
915 kr
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Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation. Interrogating the ‘reformist-managerial’ and ‘radical-movementist’ approaches, it …
Information Technology, Development, and Social Change
Av Fay Patel, Prahalad Sooknanan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2600 kr
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The speed and cost effectiveness of new information technology has prompted many to view these innovations as a panacea for social and economic development. However, such a view flies in the face of continuing inequities in education, health, food, and infrastructure. This volume explores these …
Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development
An Economic Analysis of the Wealth from the Oceans
Häftad, 2011
798 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. The oceans are the last frontier on Earth, and research and exploration are key to developing and enhancing global economic activity that is necessary to sustain a growing human population. …
Global Migration and Development
Av Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
798 kr
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The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, …
