Developing & Emerging Countries

Examining the foundations of development, Shivakumar describes how societies can reconstitute themselves to improve their developmental well-being. He argues that the unitary state focus in theory and practice limits the creative potential of individuals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482879964Author A H M Zehadul KarimFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Partridge SingaporePublisher Partridge SingaporeWeight(grams) 127g

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956550760Author Bill F NdiFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920596408Author Jonathan CrushFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Southern African Migration ProgrammePublisher Southern African Migration...

Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America explores the links between Latin American governments' economic policies and the nature and dynamics of inter-group violence. Based on the patterns of ten countries, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956550135Author Tatah MentanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 594g

There may be 20 million refugees around the world today. For many, their search for freedom ends in camps in countries of first asylum. There they wait for offers of permanent resettlement in the West. This book explores how two countries traditionally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956727438Author Raymond Chegedua TangonyireFormat PaperbackImprint Langaa RPCIDPublisher Langaa RPCIDWeight(grams) 349g

This balanced and innovative collection uses different methodologies to approach the common theme of a region transformed in recent years by neoliberalism. Most of the contributors suggest that Latin America is experiencing rapid and unexpected change:...

Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility. Across Africa...

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 9781349041268Author Donald C. RowatFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Palgrave MacmillanPublisher Palgrave MacmillanWeight(grams) 498g

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the close cultural links between India and Vietnam. It discusses the issues of trade negotiations under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Indo-Pacific construct. Issues such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788534079Author Professor Robert ChambersFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800552Author Kevin SansomFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDC

The issue of biofuels has already been much debated, but the focus to date has largely been on Latin America and deforestation - this highly original work breaks fresh ground in looking at the African perspective. Most African governments see biofuels as...

Genetically modified crops have become a key element of development strategies across the Global South, despite remaining deeply controversial. Proponents hail them as an example of 'pro-poor' innovation, while critics regard them as a threat to food...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800477Author Julie FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 110g

Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have become the darlings of neoliberal development thinking, with the received wisdom being that such enterprises hold the key to the economic transformation of low-income countries. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912250349Author Anne ThurstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Institute of Commonwealth StudiesPublisher Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853398124Author Roger FewFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800354Author M. SohailFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDC

Understanding Third World Politics gives a comprehensive and critical introduction to the main theories that have been used to understand political change in developing countries. It examines the variety of political institutions and processes in the...

This book, co-published with the UN's Dept of Economic and Social Affairs, offers a critical appraisal of the conventional measures and analysis of poverty as well as of poverty reduction policies. Despite greater efforts in reducing poverty since the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800675Author Peter HarveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 510g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800699Author Sarah HouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 738g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800521Author Sam GodfreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 285g

The Myth of Development boldly states that the benefits of development, so long promised over the past sixty years, have not come about for most people. Nor are they going to. State-driven and market-led development models have both failed. Many...

The issue of biofuels has already been much debated, but the focus to date has largely been on Latin America and deforestation - this highly original work breaks fresh ground in looking at the African perspective. Most African governments see biofuels as...

In 2004, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis. A comprehensive food aid programme soon followed, at the time the largest in the world. Yet by 2014, while the crisis continued, international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853397325Author John CammackFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843800972Author Cyrus NjiruFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 480g

Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial...

Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury. From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans,...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been widely derided as a failed state, unable to meet the basic needs of its citizens. But while state infrastructure continues to decay, many essential services continue to be provided at the local level, often...

Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have become the darlings of neoliberal development thinking, with the received wisdom being that such enterprises hold the key to the economic transformation of low-income countries. This...

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...

Why are some transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) highly effective, while others are not? The contributors compare 21 transnational PPPs that seek to provide collective goods in the field of sustainable development.About the AuthorMarianne...

Palgrave Advances in Development Studies aims to provide readers with an understanding of the disparate theories concerning development, their assumptions and the intellectual forces underpinning them. In thirteen specially commissioned essays, leading...