Developing & Emerging Countries

The book unravels the entangled relationship between ascriptive identity (caste) and space (urban) and how this interaction (re)moulds urban stratification. Urban rather represents a liminal space while offering promising opportunities to aspire and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788534109Author Steven WerlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Social Outlook is a flagship ESCAP publication produced every two years with a dedicated focus on social development issues in Asia and the Pacific. In 2024, the Social Outlook focuses on future proofing social protection in Asia and the Pacific in...

This handbook provides an examination of the theoretical foundations, methodological innovations, and practical applications that are redefining evaluation in the Global South. It explores how scholars and practitioners are challenging conventional...

Frontier technologies, in particular AI, bring about profound ramifications in the way the economy and societies work. This disruptive change, coupled with the accelerating pace at which new technologies emerge and the global dimension reached by their...

The World Survey on the Role of Women in Development is presented every five years to the Economic and Financial Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. It provides a unique opportunity to put gender equality issues on the economic policy...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788534093Author Dr Sinead WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

It was long assumed that Western liberal democracy and free-market capitalism held all the answers for development and national progress. Today, in the face of growing inequality and global power imbalances, this post-Cold War narrative has faltered. New...

It was long assumed that Western liberal democracy and free-market capitalism held all the answers for development and national progress. Today, in the face of growing inequality and global power imbalances, this post-Cold War narrative has faltered. New...

This book provides an overview of the overall progress of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, analyzes the challenges faced by countries around the world in a new period of turbulence and change, and proposes an overall approach and main path...

This book explores the crucial role of public acceptance in advancing green growth, decarbonization, and rapid advancements of renewable energy technologies. It shows that public acceptance is as critical as technological innovation, given the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788534215Author Yancey OrrFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apostles of Development recounts the work of six individuals, all former classmates at Cambridge University, who helped make international development--the effort to reduce poverty and inequality around the world--into a juggernaut of the second half of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776150885Author Muxe NkondoFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Unisa PressPublisher Unisa PressWeight(grams) 695g

India is fast overtaking China to become the most populous country on Earth. By mid-century, its 1.7 billion people will live in what is projected to become the world's second-largest economy after China. While a democracy and an open society compared to...

Well-informed energy policy design is key to reaching decarbonization targets and keeping global climate change below a 2eC threshold. In particular, low-carbon electricity provision for all is essential, as the IPCC shows that the most ambitious climate...

Surrounded by one of the largest petrochemical compounds in Argentina, a highly polluted river that brings the toxic waste of tanneries and other industries, a hazardous and largely unsupervised waste incinerator, and an unmonitored landfill, Flammable's...

Embark on a journey through Africas social innovation landscape with this groundbreaking book, which presents a comprehensive framework for transformative change. Across its five captivating parts, it intricately weaves together cultural heritage,...

Participatory approaches to project planning and implementation have been hotly debated in development cooperation and policy circles since the 1980s. This book contributes to the debate by focusing on international, development-oriented agricultural...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the struggles of youth in India, Myanmar, and Thailand towards the creation of a freer, more inclusive, plural, and equal society. Chapter contributions in the book include analytical explanations and...

This book argues that capitalism has practically failed to deliver the long-desired economic transformation and inclusive development in postcolonial Africa. The principal factor that accounts for this failure is the prolific non-productive forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905758245Author Lorena RizzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Basler Afrika BibliographienPublisher Basler Afrika Bibliographien

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783905758252Author Julie J. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Basler Afrika BibliographienPublisher Basler Afrika Bibliographien

This book suggests that our notions of civil society have undergone radical changes-including structural changes in the nature of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Such massive structural changes greatly...

At a time when digital connectivity defines our lives, the importance of data in shaping the trajectory of global development cannot be understated. This publication seeks to unravel the multifaceted relationship between data and sustainable development,...

This report presents a set of country-specific policies and an action-plan designed to support and achieve the goal of productive transformation in an economy. The strategic policy actions presented in the report revolves around six pillars: setting...

The current coronavirus pandemic fundamentally reshapes existing debates and processes in international development. The unprecedented (and rapidly evolving) crisis is generating a number of substantial challenges for developing economies. Governments in...

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 provides a broad picture of Sri Lanka's on-going political and economic crisis as the culmination of several centuries of colonial and neo-colonial developments. The book presents the Sri Lankan crisis as an exemplification of a broader global...

Popular Music in East and Southeast Asia: Sonic (under) Currents and Currencies presents contemporary perspectives of the music discipline in East and Southeast Asia. It considers global influences, national industries, and regional genres with examples...

This book provides contributions in international law, development, and international relations from a cross section of jurists and scholars including a justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and a former Judge of the International Court of Justice at...

As multilateral agencies, social movements, and state authoritiesworldwide struggle to cope with the effects of large-scale developmentprojects, such as dam building, mining, oil extraction, forestplantations, and nature conservation, the problem of...

This book focuses on the modernization of Bangladesh. It does so by including case studies at the national and sub-national government levels and comparative studies with other countries.Chapters in the book highlight how a number of aspects have been...

This book provides essential insights into Bhutan's developmental challenges. It analyzes and scrutinizes the sovereign state's developmental approach, including the idea of Gross National Happiness (GNH), which has replaced Gross National Product (GNP)...

Domestic violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of the world. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. The Caribbean context is unique as it was birthed out of colonization, which was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886979053Author Clio CiaschiniFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers Inc

Space applications are steadily increasing in the Asia-Pacific region, driven by artificial intelligence and multiple digital technologies and coupled with a surge of data from the growing fleet of Earth observation satellites and other sources. Demand...

This open access book simultaneously addresses both the segmenting and the egalitarian function of individual labour law, in almost all countries of the world, in some chapters following up from its origin to the present. Its socio-legal approach fills...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Development and environmental challenges are often framed at the global or planetary scale, but in a vague or apolitical manner. This book develops a theoretically rigorous and politicized...