Developing & Emerging Countries

The author develops an original interpretation of foreign aid by analysing it as a particular domain of international government. She demonstrates how foreign aid practices are contemporary forms of gift-giving that have made recipient countries and...

Minns argues that the industrial transformations of Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan were based on the existence of powerful developmentalist states in each. It explores the origins of such states and their dynamics and connects the form of autonomy they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781038778239Author Eric G BingFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

The authors show that with violent conflict in the developing world as the critical issue for the twenty-first century, and conflict prevention a central security problem for the developed and developing world, self-determination movements can only be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482884593Author Amulya K MohantyFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Partridge IndiaPublisher Partridge IndiaWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This volume addresses the changing nature of the international aid system and the challenges it poses for the multilateral system, donors and aid recipients, centring on new regional and national relationships developing in the multilateral system,...

The linkage of development aid to the promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance was a striking departure in the post-cold war foreign policies of Northern 'donor' governments. Uniquely, this book provides a systematic and comparative...

Uprootedness, exile and forced displacement, be they due to conflict, persecution or so-called 'development', are conditions which characterise the lives of millions across the globe. This book analyses a range of displacement situations, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800941Author Cyrus NjiruFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 475g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800958Author Cyrus NjiruFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 475g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737697701Author Agnes IgoyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Global Livingston InstitutePublisher Global Livingston InstituteWeight(grams) 268g

This book examines non-participatory memberships or why states choose not to use the benefits of international institutions to which they belong. To investigate this question, the author explores why states choose not to litigate within the World Trade...

This book explores the multifaceted obstacles to social change that faces India, Myanmar and Thailand and ways to overcome them. With the collection of essays offering an alternative approach through identifying common challenges and salient features...

The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the...

Nothing is more important to a new, fragile or developing nation than developing the capacity of its government to support national well-being. Every society is complex; every government is complex. Yet, well-intentioned international development aid,...

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...

Though initially considered a welcome counterweight to Western interest across Africa, the BRICS are increasingly being viewed as another example of foreign interference and exploitation. BRICS and Resistance in Africa explores the varied forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869782204Author Emmanuel Yenshu VudoFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint CODESRIAPublisher CODESRIAWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

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...

This book presents the first-ever close and up-to-date look at how American diplomats working at our embassies abroad communicate with foreign audiences to explain US foreign policy and American culture and society. Projecting an American voice abroad...

This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most. The existence of a state with an effective government is a basic condition...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987083299Author Gussai H SheikheldinFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams)...

The first volume of IDS Companions to Development Studies focuses on pivotal writing emerging from the IDS fellowship during the last 50 years. It includes five topics: perspectives and paradigms, debunking myths, development policy, gender and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171066497Author Liv HaramFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Nordic African InstitutePublisher Nordic African InstituteWeight(grams) 270g

The social, economic and political contexts in which development projects in India are implemented, and consequences to people displaced by such projects, are analyzed in this book. Development, displacement, resettlement and rehabilitation processes...

This book argues that the overlooked ideas of Jose Marti and Ernesto 'Che' Guevara explain recent politics in Latin America and the Caribbean but also, even more significantly, offer a defensible alternative direction for global development ethics.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464821721Author Iffat MahmudFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

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...

The use of regional organizations to mitigate and respond to disasters has become a global trend. This book examines the role regional organizations play in managing disaster risk through a comparative study of ten regional organizations, demonstrating...

This book is based on experience and reflections related to international support provided to parliaments and legislative bodies both in selected countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Serbia, and Kyrgyzstan) and globally. The author intends to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787951310Author Gew Reports & Analyses TeamFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Global East-West LtdPublisher Global East-West LtdWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853394935Author Harold BrookfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 510g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354471070Author Mitali ChakravartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing...

In light of the Asian financial crisis of 1997, Lai examines whether East Asian economies converged onto the liberal market model by studying the evolution of the financial sectors of Korea, Malaysia and Thailand. This includes sectoral diversification,...

Marco Just Quiles offers new perspectives on how domestic and external factors interact to shape variations in local state capacity. Using Bolivia as a case, he applies quantitative and qualitative methods to decode the nexus between global...

Race debates have become more frequent at the national level, and the response to racism in the media and by politicians has shifted from denial to acknowledgment to action. Focusing on the experiences of communities from India's Northeast borderland,...

An analysis of the production and consumption of the communications of Make Poverty History , a high profile episode of social movement protest in the UK. The book follows the campaign throughout its lifetime and explores how attitudes towards government...

This book explains in simple language the change of perspective and the transition of the systems for poverty alleviation, based on the fifteen-year development of China's poverty alleviation policy. Written by scholars from the International Poverty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906704094Author John Emeka AkudeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Adonis & Abbey Publishers LtdPublisher Adonis & Abbey Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

Developing countries have made rapid but highly varied progress since the 1990s. So much so that the boundaries to the traditional industrialized countries have become partially blurred. On the other hand, there are a number of mostly fragile states that...