Developing & Emerging Countries

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk Assessment and Communities, and 4) Recovery. The chapters...

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)...

This volume consolidates chapters from across Southeast Asia as a means of discussing alternative development pathways. It presents radical re-imaginings of how development might look, considered alongside the growing disillusionment over mainstream...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815750550Author Anne O. KruegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

The added value of mixed methods research in poverty and vulnerability is now widely established. Nevertheless, gaps and challenges remain. This volume shares experiences from research in developed and developing country contexts on how mixed methods...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853390074Author Professor Robert ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853394362Author Malcolm HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

This book examines the application of risk-sharing finance as a national economic policy in history and how it stimulated economic recovery during a short period in Germany between 1933 and 1935. Economic history indicates that risk-sharing instruments...

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 examines the application of risk-sharing finance as a national economic policy in history and how it stimulated economic recovery during a short period in Germany between 1933 and 1935. Economic history indicates that risk-sharing instruments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788534130Author Ian SmillieFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788533898Author Vicky JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

China's Belt and Road Initiative, started in 2013, has transformed many places around the world but also China itself. In some cases, it provided crucial infrastructure, such as the General Hospital of Niger in Niamey or the National Library of El...

Water nurtures prosperity by meeting basic human needs, supporting health, livelihoods and economic development, underpinning food and energy security, and defending environmental integrity. Water influences the economy in many ways, and global trade...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682856802Author Elizabeth SwintonFormat HardbackPage Count 239Imprint Willford PressPublisher Willford PressWeight(grams) 844gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Demanding Accountability is a collection of nine original case studies that offer insights into how local, national, and international civil society factors mobilize to hold the World Bank accountable for its financed projects. It is a rich source of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853393495Author Claes-Axel AnderssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

This book is the first to provide an introductory overview to the concept of 'urban informality', taking an international perspective across the global North and South. It explores theoretical understandings of the term, and looks at how it affects ways...

This Open Access edited volume presents twelve African case studies that systematically reconstruct, document and analyse how national governments and other stakeholders took equity into account in their initial policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788533881Author Vicky JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

Japan-India relations have traversed from "distantly friendly" to "indispensable partners." The significant development of the India-Japan strategic partnership, the convergence of bilateral strategies, and the addressing of broader economic relations...

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...

Towards Sustainable Futures serves as a guide to better understand what roles evaluation can play in sustainability. Rather than proposing a single definition of sustainability or methodological approach, this book gives us the tools to improve the...

Broken Promises of Globalization: The Case of the Bangladesh Garment Industry analyzes the consequences of the latest wave of globalization within the context of the Bangladesh garment industry's integration into world markets and production chains...