Developing & Emerging Countries

This book investigates the power of art to enhance human development and to initiate positive social change for individuals and societies recovering from conflict. Interventions aimed at reinforcing social justice and bringing communities together after...

Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855984038Author Ines SmythFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Oxfam ProfessionalPublisher Oxfam PublishingWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855984038Author Ines SmythFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Oxfam ProfessionalPublisher Oxfam PublishingWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Disasters are all around us. In everyday parlance, disasters are understood as exceptional occurrences that destroy human life, property, and resources. For centuries, people have looked to political authorities for protection from disasters and for...

A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim, who believe that poverty eradication could be within our grasp. Yet in stark opposition come those who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853399992Author Anthony KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 355g

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-BC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Why do certain parts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853397066Author Andrea CornwallFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

In 2004, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A comprehensive food aid programme soon followed, at the time the largest in the world. Yet by 2014, while the crisis continued, international...

This text provides a critical assessment of dominant features of development theory and practice in such areas as globalisation, governance, social development, participation, feminism and postcolonialism, civil society, environment and development...

This book provides an invaluable guide to undertaking development fieldwork in both the developing world and in western contexts. It takes you through all the key stages in development research and covers: Research design and the roles of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909014046Author Mauricio TorresFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 235g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905068975Author Abdulahi A. OsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Adonis & Abbey Publishers LtdPublisher Adonis & Abbey Publishers...

Women's Voices from the Rainforest explores the position of the women whose families are tearing down the rainforest. These women of Central and Latin America have been largely invisible until now, but they are at last turning their voices into action...

When conducting research in developing countries, an ability to negotiate a bewildering array of cultural and logistical obstacles is essential. Overseas Research: A Practical Guide distills essential lessons from scores of students and scholars who have...

This book critically analyses the ways in which Africa has shifted from the periphery of global trade, international relations and politics to the centre of the world stage because of its existing and potential economic prowess and purchasing power that...

Living in a low-lying and densely populated country on the front line of climate change, Bangladeshis are taking a lead in adapting to rising temperatures and campaigning to limit climate change. Global warming will worsen this country's existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909014244Author Tom GatehouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 515g

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)...

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...