Developing & Emerging Countries

This book explains how issues of governance lie at the heart of understanding and combating the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. It reviews the debates surrounding the root causes of the pandemic and its continuing proliferation and examines the local and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956726509Author Komla TseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 270g

Throughout history authoritarian governments have outnumbered democratic ones to an overwhelming degree. Even today, true democracies are an exception. In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that the main reason for this pattern is that humans are social...

This book discusses the social and economic problems currently faced by Brazil as one of the largest "emerging countries". It examines the prospects of Brazilian development from an interdisciplinary perspective, and studies both socio-economic...

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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 explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely...

This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928331957Author Tim DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 590Imprint African MindsPublisher CompressWeight(grams) 1007gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 30mm

This book explores the multifaceted obstacles to social change that India, Myanmar and Thailand face, and ways to overcome them. With a collection of essays that identify common challenges and salient features affecting diverse communities, this volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869785540Author Hans MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint CODESRIAPublisher CODESRIAWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 15mm

By the author of "Voting Behaviour in an Indian Village" and "Reaching Out to the Poor", this book deals with development studies. Topics covered range from Asian development experience and unexplored theoretical explanations to...

This open access book sets out the contours of feminist political ecology (FPE) as a major contribution to ongoing debates in the field. As Professor Lyla Mehta says in her Foreword, the book is "foregrounding multiple ways of knowing and being, thus...

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.About the AuthorHugo Meijer,...

The aims of and motives for development cooperation have changed significantly in recent times. Besides pursuing short- and longer-term objectives in their own economic, foreign policy and other interests, donors usually have a recognisable and genuine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869781740Author Teresa Cruz SilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint CODESRIAPublisher CODESRIAWeight(grams) 392gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

This book is about the right to basic education and its impact on development in Africa. It focuses on the elusive subject of litigating the right to education by examining jurisprudence from select African countries and India. The project further...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956792870Author Emmanuel Musau MutisyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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The current coronavirus pandemic fundamentally reshapes existing debates and processes in international development. The unprecedented (and rapidly evolving) crisis is generating a number of substantial challenges for developing economies. Governments in...

This book examines the connections between poverty and innovation in Africa. Through case studies and theorizations from a distinctly African perspective, it stands in contrast to current theoretical works in the field, which remain very much rooted in...

Leadership and Collaboration provides international examples of how leadership of interprofessional education and practice has developed in various countries and examines how interprofessional education and collaborative practice can make a difference to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970026180Author Alice P TuyizereFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Fountain PublishersPublisher Fountain PublishersWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426919183Author ALFRED A.R. LATIGO PhDFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 229g

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...

Designed as a critique of the key failures of international development, this book brings together practitioners, policy-makers, researchers, activists, and academics in an attempt to work toward a shared conceptualisation of development by outlining and...

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19. The crisis of the capitalist economy due to border closure, downturn in business, loss of jobs and...

This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings. This examination is especially...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030574284Author Maritta Koch-WeserFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 549g

This book develops a discursive 'equalitarian' theoretical framework for studying African mining ecosystem issues and policy interventions. The theory of 'equalitarianism' is developed as an alternative to the reductionist approach that has dominated...

This volume sheds new light on the refugees and forced migration at the Horn of Africa and East Africa. Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, it traces historical, structural, and geopolitical factors to reveal the often brutal uprooting of people in...

Today, a large number of scholars studying development understand this process as involving learning and capability building. Capability building is an active, not a passive, process. It requires a purposeful effort from the learner's side, with support...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789988647360Author Charles AckahFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Sub-Saharan PublishersPublisher Sub-Saharan PublishersWeight(grams) 468g

This book aims to contribute to our understanding of recent changes in Chinese and Western cooperatives. It will provide a variety of audiences with relevant and useful information for further co-operative development, mutual understanding and...

This book draws on case studies of social, economic and political governance policies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine the circumstances in which governments and societies produce policies that overcome initial opposition to meet their aims...

The debt crisis in Greece has sparked lively debates about the origins of the crisis and policy measures to be adopted in order to fix it. The authors offer the first original and comprehensive narrative on Greece.Book InformationISBN 9781137273444Author...

This edited volume brings together debates from the Global South and Global East to explore alternatives to conventional planning in Southern cities. Embracing the evolving post-colonial theory, the volume offers 'fragments' of the urban that provide...

This book discusses the social and economic problems currently faced by Brazil as one of the largest “emerging countries”. It examines the prospects of Brazilian development from an interdisciplinary perspective, and studies both socio-economic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956550487Author Costain TandiFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 163g

The global demographic transition presents marked asymmetries as poor, emerging, and advanced countries are undergoing different stages of transition. Emerging countries are demographically younger than advanced economies. This youth is favorable to...