Developing & Emerging Countries

Over the last two years, Worldwatch's Nourishing the Planet team has travelled to 25 sub-Saharan African nations - the places where hunger is greatest - and uncovered a treasure trove of innovations from farmers groups, private voluntary organizations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906055847Author Jonathan RouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 250g

Globalization is often seen as driven by large corporations and supranational organizations. Enterprises operated by petty capitalists may be small, but there is nothing petty about their significance for the operation of economies or our understanding...

The 1970's witnessed widespread recognition of the world as a single, interconnecting whole. The 1980's have shown that this whole is not operating as a self-sustaining system. In short we appear to live in a world in crisis- manifesting itself in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843801269Author Stephen HusseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint WEDCPublisher WEDCWeight(grams) 360g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897748237Author Jon BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint INTRACPublisher INTRACWeight(grams) 120g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853397905Author Jonathan EnsorFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 496g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853399152Author Marc EdelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 225g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853391286Author Shaheda AzamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 23Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788530095Author Deepta ChopraFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 300g

A systematic reassessment, by two leading figures in the field, of the paradigm of international development in both theory and practice. It offers an overview and critique of development theory and strategy, and a new framework for the analysis of...

The literature on innovation in Africa is rapidly expanding, and a recurring thread in the emergent literature is the pervasiveness of systemic weaknesses that inhibit the innovation process. Despite these, firms are able to innovate in Africa. It is...

Nuclear Power in the Developing World (1982) explores the issue of nuclear power policies in developing countries. The sharp oil price rises of the 1970s attracted widespread attention to nuclear power as an alternative energy source, while some...

This book proposes a paradigm shift in how human and nonhuman well-being are perceived and approached. In response to years of accelerated decline in the health of ecosystems and their inhabitants, this edited collection presents planetary well-being as...

The Political Economy of Transnational Power and Production: Mexico's Metamorphosis 1982-2022 How and why Mexico's socioeconomic structure was transformed through plutocratic preferences, US corporate strategies, and ideology-all powering transnational...

Africa's Information Revolution was recently announced as the 2016 prizewinner of the Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences - congratulations to the authors James T. Murphy and Padraig Carmody! Africa's Information Revolution presents an in-depth...

This fully updated fifth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent. Charting trends in government over six decades of the post-colonial era, the book tackles key questions...

This book presents a rich ethnography of post-conflict social and economic recovery in East Timor following the end of Indonesian military occupation of the territory in 1999. It offers a longer-term analysis of the pathways to rebuilding and restoring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853399893Author Tom SchacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 255g

One of the most notable changes in the world economy during the past three decades has been the diverging trends in the growth of the developing countries. Compared to East Asian countries that have integrated well into the global economy, those of...

Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spacious,...

This report brings together the findings of a decade-long field survey conducted in the Indian state of Sikkim. It outlines the interventions made by the state government in human development, biodiversity, gender equity, justice and other parameters. It...

This report brings together the findings of a decade-long field survey conducted in the Indian state of Sikkim. It outlines the interventions made by the state government in human development, biodiversity, gender equity, justice and other parameters. It...

What motivates individuals to take up arms against their government? What types of states have historically been more prone to internal conflicts? In Civil Wars: Internal Struggles, Global Consequences Marie Olson Lounsbery and Frederic Pearson explore...

In this compact, powerful new study Thembisa Waetjen explores how gender structured the mobilization of Zulu nationalism in South Africa as antiapartheid efforts gained force during the 1980s. Undercutting assumptions of male power and nationalism as...

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...

First published in 1983, State Policies and Internal Migration presents a comprehensive overview of migration influencing policies and programmes in the developing countries. Population movements and the spatial distribution of population have become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609947897Author Eric G. BingFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerWeight(grams) 548gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 164mm *...

The interwoven futures of humanity and our planet are under threat. Urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures. Education, long acknowledged as a powerful force for positive change, has new, urgent and important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789241505918Author World Health OrganizationFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint World Health OrganizationPublisher World Health Organization

For more than fifty years, Dr. Cahill has been helping to heal the world, as a leading specialist in tropical medicine and as a driving force in humanitarian assistance and relief efforts around the globe. In this revised and expanded edition, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853398940Author Gill GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 1495g

In this groundbreaking book, Frank K .Upham uses empirical analysis and economic theory to demonstrate how myths surrounding property law have blinded us to our own past and led us to demand that developing countries implement policies that are mistaken...

The New Regional Politics of Development assesses the various development strategies being pursued in each of the major regions of the world. While huge inequalities in wealth and capacity remain a hallmark of the twenty-first century world order, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853396618Author Kate CzuczmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815702115Author Ricardo Ffrench-DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Care work, both paid and unpaid, contributes to well-being, social development and economic growth. But the costs of providing care are unequally borne across gender and social class. Feminist scholarship on the gendered construction of welfare...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899365753Author Nick CaistorFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Latin America BureauPublisher Latin America BureauWeight(grams) 112gDimensions(mm)...

According to estimates by the International Land Coalition based at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 57 million hectares of land have been leased to foreign investors since 2007. Current research has focused on human rights...

In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Brazil improved the health and well-being of its populace more than any other large democracy in the world. Long infamous for its severe inequality, rampant infant mortality, and clientelist...