Developing & Emerging Countries

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...

This book analyses how informal economy traders and the marketplace institution dominate the local economy in African cities. According to the World Bank, being an African reduces the probability that an individual is an entrepreneur in the manufacturing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970252411Author Stephen DevereuxFormat PaperbackImprint Fountain PublishersPublisher Fountain PublishersWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789987082674Author Professor Wole SoyinkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams)...

An engaging explanation and unique analysis of the increased involvement of the private sector in one of the world's most influential development organizations, the United Nations Development Programme.About the AuthorPursuing PhD at University of...

This book, first published in 2002 to widespread acclaim, is fully revised and updated to take account of the latest facts and developments in the field. Carefully written to be accessible, this book is theoretically informed, practical and remains the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798885919722Author John LokFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Notion Press Media Pvt LtdPublisher Notion Press Media Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 95g

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...

This book addresses the relevance of the case study research methodology for enhancing urban planning research and education in Africa and the global South. It provides an introduction to the case study methodology and features examples of its...

Almost irrespective of the geographic setting, the debate about the future of democracy in post-authoritarian societies is increasingly tied to the strength of civil society. A strong civil society is thought to be crucial to the emergence of successful...

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...

This book presents interdisciplinary research and scientific outcomes in sustainable development acquired from the BHAAAS International Conference on Sustainable Development-ICSD2022 as part of the 13th Days of Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of...

The author investigates the agenda for transformation in contemporary African development studies: policy studies, strategic studies, international relations and economic diplomacy. With a focus on the capacity dimension, he proposes critical policy and...

Epidemics know no borders and are often characterized by a high level of uncertainty, causing major challenges in risk governance. The author shows the emergence of global risk governance processes and the key role that the World Health Organization...

This open access book explores Japanese involvement in Asian development through selected development ideas and lexemes that are widely regarded in Japan as 'untranslatable' into other languages. Each chapter traces the genealogy of locally nuanced...

The book addresses the urgent need for rethinking the geopolitics and ecology in the Himalaya, by emphasising the entanglements between these two factors. Most international relations analyses of the Himalaya emphasize the central role of the region’s...

This book explores how different corporate governance strategies affect community mobilization and the scope for influence when an area's population is faced with the arrival of the extraction industry. Drawing on ethnographic research into Peruvian...

This book explores and reflects on peacebuilding, which emerges from the experiences and realities of women's lives in East Africa, specifically, in Uganda. The author argues that often these community based peacebuilding efforts are responses to women's...

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 9789987417292Author Fred Simon LeriseFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Mkuki na Nyota PublishersPublisher Mkuki na Nyota PublishersWeight(grams) 310g

Research on evaluation shows that low-use and non-use of evaluation is common, yet evaluation is hailed as beneficial and worthwhile. The worth of evaluation is tied to its utilisation, presenting a paradox if evaluation is both revered and underutilised...

This book argues that we need to focus attention on the ways that workers themselves have invested subjectively in what it means to be a worker. By doing so, we gain an explanation that moves us beyond the economic decisions made by actors, the...