Developing & Emerging Countries

Sport and physical activity are now regularly used to promote social and economic development, peacebuilding and conflict resolution, on an international scale. The emergence of the 'Sport for Development and Peace' (SDP) sector, comprised of...

For most people in Singapore, having a job is just a fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses a wide range of experiences. Have you ever really considered what workers do on a daily basis and how they feel about their jobs?Have you ever walked past...

Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas where it has failed in its objectives,...

Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global...

This book unveils the myriad streams of ecocentric thoughts that have been flowing through the human mind – in indigenous communities, in the wisdom of philosophers, in the creative expressions of poets and writers – sometimes latent, but sometimes more...

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315180250, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licenseAdolescence is a pivotal time in a girl's...

This book brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual violence on the African continent. The contributions included here offer a detailed reading of the social...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Jean Dreze has a rare and distinctive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853395673Author Arthur WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure. Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh...

The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development provides an interdisciplinary, agenda-setting survey of the fields of migration and development, bringing together over 60 expert contributors from around the world to chart current and future trends in...

Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853399657Author Herman BrouwerFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 534g

Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink)...

For billions across the world, the daily challenge is to find enough to eat to survive. Hunger is on the rise globally with more than 1.2 billion people suffering from food insecurity and poverty and rising food prices increasingly jeopardising access to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853396021Author Anthea SanyasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

This groundbreaking collection provides the first detailed social analysis of football within Africa. The book features case-study essays that draw heavily on detailed fieldwork to examine the distinctive football cultures that have grown up in African...

This book is the first to provide an introductory overview to the concept of 'urban informality', taking an international perspective across the global North and South. It explores theoretical understandings of the term, and looks at how it affects ways...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906156483Author James FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Latin America BureauPublisher Latin America BureauWeight(grams) 237gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853399176Author Henry VeltmeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 194g

The new updated edition of Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural globalisation, and international agreements interact with more locally specific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853393174Author Prabha ShekarFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint ITDG PublishingPublisher ITDG PublishingWeight(grams) 234gDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788532396Author SEADSFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 400g

This book studies the recent legacy of basti "evictions" in Delhi-mass clearings of some of the city's poorest neighborhoods as a way to understand how the urban poor are disenfranchised in the name of "public interest" and, in the...

For years economists have spoken of 'Africa rising', and despite the global financial crisis, Africa continues to host some of the fastest growing economies in the world.Africa's Shadow Rise however argues that the continent's apparent economic 'rise' is...

Since its inception, the field of political ecology has served as a critical hub for inclusive and transformative environmental inquiry. Doing Political Ecology offers a distinctive entry point into this ever-growing field and argues that our scholarly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899365029Author Marcus ColchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Latin America BureauPublisher Latin America BureauWeight(grams) 275gDimensions(mm)...

Public banks are banks located within the public sphere of a state. They are pervasive, with more than 900 institutions worldwide, and powerful, with tens of trillions in assets. Public banks are neither essentially good nor bad. Rather, they are dynamic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855983628Author Jo RowlandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Oxfam ProfessionalPublisher Oxfam PublishingWeight(grams) 360gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

At the start of the 21st century, the relationship between media and development has never felt more important. Following a series of 'media revolutions' throughout the developing world - beginning with the advent of cheap transistor radio sets in the...

In 2005, pop star Bono proclaimed, “Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Give a woman microcredit, she, her husband, her children and her extended family will eat for a lifetime.” By the mid-2000s, it had become international development dogma that...

This work examines the way in which much "third world" aid, far from contributing to the prosperity of recipient countries, helps to shore up global relations of domination and subordination. In particular, Goudge focuses on the role played by "race" in...

This book explores the complex relationship between energy and development and discusses the core issues and concepts surrounding this growing area of research and policy.In the field of energy and development, the world faces two major challenges: (1)...

To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular is still constrained. Amid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women's rights, including the...

Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both development and children's studies that raises a strong case for placing children's issues at the core of human...

The thousands uprooted and displaced by the Holocaust had a profound cultural impact on the countries in which they sought refuge, with numerous Holocaust escapees attaining prominence as scientists, writers, filmmakers and artists. But what is less well...

In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population lived in cities. However, on a global scale, poverty overwhelmingly retains a rural face. This book assembles an unparalleled group of internationally-eminent scholars in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853398865Author Rosalind EybenFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 393g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899365449Author Thomas Quigley-PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Latin America BureauPublisher Latin America BureauWeight(grams)...

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