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...

The SDG Progress Report for Asia and the Pacific 2025 provides a comprehensive assessment of the region's progress towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their 169 targets as well as the challenges and crises that are holding back progress in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Accessible and comprehensive, this book provides a much-needed, innovative perspective on international aid highlighting recent shifts towards centring localized voices and practices. Providing an overview of emerging and evolving forms of development,...

Accessible and comprehensive, this book puts forth an innovative perspective on international aid, going beyond top-down attempts to centre local voices and practices. By providing an overview of newer iterations and overlooked practices in development,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788534185Author Jeff TanFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

Land concentration has been a central feature of the history of nearly all empires, regions, and countries, and has underpinned the creation of the state and of inegalitarian and elitist societies. It is the key feature of the "monopolization model",...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788533942Author James LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

When Boris Johnson announced the creation of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in June 2020, he signalled the dissolution of the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) after nearly 25 years. DFID had a stellar international...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815753216Author Nora Claudia LustigFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815760955Author Janne E. NolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815752219Author Santiago LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

The development of effective health, food, and nutrition policies are essential to the rapid economic and social development of Third World countries. The essays in this volume cover basic issues such as development of the food supply, health care...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313244018Author Donald J. HernandezFormat HardbackPage Count 161Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

All aspects of the basic needs approach to development are considered in the various chapters of this volume: issues, implications, impact, planning and policy, and requisite technology, among others. The conflict between basic needs and comprehensive...

More than three billion people, nearly half of humankind, live on less than two-and-a-half U.S. dollars per person per day. Studies have shown repeatedly that the main and often the sole asset of the poor is their labor. It follows that to understand...