Developing & Emerging Countries

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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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) 662gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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 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

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

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...

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...