Developing & Emerging Countries

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853392467Author Geof D. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial...

Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique: Why, How and For What? emphasizes the conceptual differences and exclusionary discourses framing the arguments for supporting Western-type NGOs in the development discourse, and for excluding local social actors...

This book examines general Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) roles and comparative advantages in the broad fight to end global poverty, as well as roles and opportunities specific to particular Millennium Development Goals sectors.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800965Author Cyrus NjiruFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 255g

The focus of this book is to examine the growing impact of globalization on education policy and development in the Asia Pacific region. It analyses the reaction of selected societies and the strategies that their governments have adopted in response to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853390142Author Marilyn CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 221g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853390036Author Sanjay SinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 185g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853396281Author Stuart CoupeFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 280g

This book explores the possibilities and difficulties of living with HIV and ARVs, or antiretroviral treatment, today. It draws on HIV-positive people's stories from both the UK and the South African epidemics and offers a deep understanding of the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906156087Author James DunkerleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Latin America BureauPublisher Latin America BureauWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853395024Author Lionel JayanettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 180g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788534062Author Professor Robert ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action...

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This first volume in the series examines such topics as improving public policy toward and within developing nations, economic development and decentralized government, policy evaluation methods for developing country energy issues, and the law of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853397004Author Jo da SilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853392504Author Ian ScoonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint ITDG PublishingPublisher ITDG PublishingWeight(grams) 448g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946688982Author Aaron MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint ITDG PublishingPublisher ITDG PublishingWeight(grams) 234gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 180mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788532662Author R.A ReedFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 700g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853390586Author K. PuttaswamaiahFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 613g

Embark on a journey through Africa’s social innovation landscape with this groundbreaking book, which presents a comprehensive framework for transformative change. Across its ve captivating parts, it intricately weaves together cultural heritage,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903031639Author Trevor BottomleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint ITDG PublishingPublisher ITDG PublishingWeight(grams) 90g

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Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development, but how do these ideals sit with the day-to-day reality of marginalised communities struggling with poverty, precarity, and the deprivation of human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853392535Author A. Peter CastroFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 290g

Participatory approaches to project planning and implementation have been hotly debated in development cooperation and policy circles since the 1980s. This book contributes to the debate by focusing on international, development-oriented agricultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920850289Author Mitsuo IchikawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press

Pre-pandemic the Middle East and North Africa was the only region in the world experiencing increases in poverty and declines in life satisfaction. This Report investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic changed the welfare of individuals and households in...

This book critically examines the challenges, successes, and failures of the post-1994 South African state against the humane values enshrined in its constitution: nonracial democracy and respect for all generations of human rights-civil, political,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735053806Author Pamela LoganFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Hibiscus BooksPublisher Hibiscus BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171066848Author Sam MaghimbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Nordic African InstitutePublisher Nordic African InstituteWeight(grams) 128g

Legitimacy is an essential concept in politics. But what is it? This book seeks to answer this question through adopting Weber's sociological approach to legitimacy. Weber argues that we should not only understand legitimacy from the perspective of the...

This book discusses the experiences of cooperative enterprises in India that have been operated by or influenced to a significant extent by trade unions. It describes the origins of these movements in India presenting a political-strategic view of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910781883Author Ruchi SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Transnational Press LondonPublisher Transnational Press LondonWeight(grams) 304g

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...

Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of interlocking regimes to account for the manner in which public and private bodies either facilitate or prevent...

This book, exploring the theoretical and practical implications of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of leading researchers in the areas of...

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...

This book thoroughly introduces private equity into the financial development and investment debate through the Latin American lense. The author looks at the case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico. While financial underdevelopment...