Developing & Emerging Countries

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905068838Author , A., Osman FarahFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Adonis & Abbey Publishers LtdPublisher Adonis & Abbey Publishers...

As cities grow and produce more waste, deciding where all the waste will go becomes a public health priority. Although many cities have reserved dumps for waste, the dumps are open. Therefore, converting these dumps to controlled and sanitary landfills...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905758986Author Mirjam de BruijnFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Basler Afrika BibliographienPublisher Basler Afrika BibliographienWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789783756878Author Aaron K KiikpoyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Kemuela PublicationsPublisher Kemuela PublicationsWeight(grams) 395g

Patronage Politics Divides Us is the culmination of a research project that forms part of MISTRA's first suite of eight priority research projects. The research explores the relationship between patronage, poverty, and inequality with a particular focus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869786455Author Gian Carlo Delgado-RamosFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint CodesriaPublisher CodesriaWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789788431343Author Sam MomahFormat PaperbackImprint Safari Books LtdPublisher Safari Books LtdWeight(grams) 458g

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country - and East Asia more broadly - have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia's annexation of Crimea...

This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193984628Author Aruna RoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Roli BooksPublisher Roli BooksWeight(grams) 549g

In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both...

Shallow capital markets are a key bottleneck for private sector development in Latin America. Still, there is not a large literature on capital markets and corporate governance, or on the politics of regulatory reform and business associations, focused...

Explores why articulating social justice in both development discourse and practice provides the potential for a fresh understanding of global poverty, and one that rises above the current 'impasse'. Suggests how principles of global social justice could...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789780232191Author Celestine BasseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Malthouse PressPublisher Malthouse PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

People with intellectual disability cannot assume that they can speak up for and represent themselves. A host of socially constructed factors act as barriers to their becoming self-advocates. This book analyses the nature of these factors and...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905068531Author Abdulahi, A OsmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Adonis & Abbey Publishers LtdPublisher Adonis & Abbey Publishers...

In a strategy deliberately counter to many earlier texts which focus on social aspects of death and dying this book will not examine death through the social prism of US or British culture alone. Drawing only on material from a single society gives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987070077Author Joe C B KabissaFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Tanzania Educational PublishersPublisher Tanzania Educational...

This book addresses, for the first time, the question of how development NGOs attempt to 'listen' to communities in linguistically diverse environments. NGOs are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that they 'listen' to the people and communities...

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...

Matt Houngnikpo examines how domestic conflict, economic stagnation, political instability, poverty and underdevelopment have plagued Africa for decades. He argues that a reversal of the political, economic and social plight of Africa lies in better...

In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both...

This collection is an engaging exploration of how Bourdieu's key concepts - field, habitus and capital - help us re-think the status of childhood. The authors are committed to improving the social status and well-being of childhood in social, economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171065803Author Assis MalaquiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 263Imprint Nordiska AfrikainstitutetPublisher Nordiska AfrikainstitutetWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869782525Author Lwazi Siyabonga LushabaFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint CODESRIAPublisher CODESRIAWeight(grams) 95g

In this ground-breaking work, Teresa Thorp tackles the causes and effects of climate injustice by methodically mapping out an approach by which to reach a negotiatedconsensus with legal force to protect present and future generations. Using the law and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789966258144Author Okoth OkomboFormat PaperbackImprint East African Educational PublishersPublisher East African Educational PublishersWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215683828Author Noi ThawattanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Noi ThawattanaPublisher Noi ThawattanaWeight(grams) 104g

This book provides an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary and international essays examining the food-place relationship. It explores such topics as the history of food and agriculture, the globalization and localization of food, and the role of...

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 collection brings together an interdisciplinary pool of scholars to explore the relationship between children and borders with richly-documented ethnographic studies from around the world. The book provides a penetrating account of how borders...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have played a major role in focusing policy since their original incarnation in the mid to late 1990s but what happens when we no longer have the MDGs - what will guide policy after 2015? This book discusses the...

India and the South-East Asia are typical case studies of interest for students of development economics. These countries have served as role models for most of the emerging economies.Sustainable Development in India and South-East Asia attempts to...