Developing & Emerging Countries

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788126119738Author B.K. PrasadFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Anmol Publications Pvt LtdPublisher Anmol Publications Pvt LtdDimensions(mm) 246mm *...

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)...

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...

Development promises higher incomes, better livelihoods, social justice and emancipation, but decades of good intentions have left hill communities in Northern Thailand with high rates of drug addiction and poverty, and a loss of traditional knowledge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853393488Author Claes-Axel AnderssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

What is social exclusion? Why is social exclusion the most daunting threat to global health and development? Social Exclusion and Community Capital has created a new theory and offers a multi-equitable partnership model to resolve global health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632408563Author Elizabeth SwintonFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams)...

Various African nations have undergone conflict situations since they gained their independence. This book focuses on particular countries that have faced conflict (civil wars and genocide) and are now in the process of rebuilding their political,...

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive overview of colonial legacies of racial and social inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rich in theoretical framework and close textual analysis, these essays offer new paradigms and approaches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788533850Author Steve BresciaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464815874Author World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 97Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

This is the United Nations definitive report on the state of the world economy, providing global and regional economic outlook for 2020 and 2021. Produced by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the five United Nations regional commissions, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906156421Author Jean StubbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Latin America BureauPublisher Latin America Bureau

Using Thailand as a case study, Ross King examines the role of place in the formation of identity through memory. Employing the idea of French historian Pierre Nora that because we no longer live in environments of memory-places where the past is still...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788530422Author Sally SuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 700g

Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure. Wide-ranging and even-handed, this book offers a fresh...

This volume is about why 'work' changed to become more precarious around the turn of the century. This happened not just in the developed world but also inside sectors that were demarcated as organized and modern within developing countries like India...

Products and services based on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain are normally considered to be for rich consumers in advanced countries. Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion demonstrates how marginalized and...

Until this century, Northern Nigeria was a major center of textile production and trade. Textile Ascendancies: Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria examines this dramatic change in textile aesthetics, technologies, and social values in...

Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration,...

Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer--that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration,...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Freedom of religion and belief is crucial to any sustainable development process, yet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pay little attention to religious inequalities. This book...