Developing & Emerging Countries

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789780294847Author Thomas A ImobigheFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Spectrum BooksPublisher Spectrum BooksWeight(grams) 445g

This open access book features various studies on democratization, transformation, socio-economic development, and security issues in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) geographical region and beyond. Written by experts and...

This is a study of how ethnic diversity is represented in public institutions in India, and how politics manages ethnic inequalities. New data on representational patterns in parliament cover the diversity of caste, tribe and religion. Material...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905068593Author Abdulahi A. OsmanFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Adonis & Abbey Publishers LtdPublisher Adonis & Abbey Publishers...

Managing Development in a Global Context examines the complex relationship between management, development and globalization from a multidimensional perspective. Key authors in the field explore the historical record, the current global, characteristics...

This book discusses the geopolitics of development from the point of view of the Global South. Written by scholars and development experts from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this volume presents reflections on various historical, current, and future...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386582560Author Ashwin ParulkarFormat PaperbackImprint Speaking Tiger BooksPublisher Speaking Tiger BooksWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920596200Author Ines RaimundoFormat PaperbackImprint Southern African Migration ProgrammePublisher Southern African Migration ProgrammeWeight(grams) 109g

This book revisits Cox and Harrod's conception of 'unprotected workers' through theoretical reflection and empirical explorations of the rise of millennialism, prostitution and the sex industry, the politics of migration, the interstices of class and...

Why are some transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) highly effective, while others are not? The contributors compare 21 transnational PPPs that seek to provide collective goods in the field of sustainable development.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789994450671Author Dessalegn RahmatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Forum for Social StudiesPublisher Forum for Social StudiesWeight(grams)...

This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all entities (human and non-human) in this context. Children and their entangled...

Domestic violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of the world. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. The Caribbean context is unique as it was birthed out of colonization, which was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789996060762Author James N AmanzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint Mzuni PressPublisher Mzuni PressWeight(grams) 689g

This book revisits Cox and Harrod's conception of 'unprotected workers' through theoretical reflection and empirical explorations of the rise of millennialism, prostitution and the sex industry, the politics of migration, the interstices of class and...

This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic...

Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed empirical research around the themes of environmentalism, security, children's rights and more, the contributors explore the...

Drawing from long term ethnographic work and practice in Guatemala, this incisive and interdisciplinary text brings in perspectives from critical disability studies, postcolonial theory and critical development to explore the various interactions and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836417501Author Dave V WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956550364Author Nkwazi MhangoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 345g

This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice.Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782369602941Author Xu ChangfuFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Monda Asembleo Socia (Mas)Publisher Monda Asembleo Socia (Mas)Weight(grams) 358g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789994450664Author Asnake KefaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Forum for Social StudiesPublisher Forum for Social StudiesWeight(grams) 122g

This open access book provides methodological devices and analytical frameworks for the study of societies in transformation. It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspectives on societal...

This book provides a multifaceted analysis of the so-called US 'rebalance' (or 'pivot') toward Asia by focusing on the diplomatic, military, and economic dimensions of the American policy shift in the Asia Pacific region.Book InformationISBN...

Development education is a radical form of learning that addresses the structural causes of poverty and injustice in the global North and South. This volume debates development education practice and the policy environment in which it is delivered. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920409678Author Leslie NyagahFormat PaperbackImprint Institute for Democracy in South AfricaPublisher Institute for Democracy in South...