Developing & Emerging Countries

What do people make of their own development? In Educating Activists, Rebecca M. Klenk illuminates a reality that is far more complex than either development planners or critics commonly assume. This gracefully written, accessible ethnography shows how...

In the wake of the AIDS pandemic, legions of organizations and compassionate individuals from faraway places descended on Africa to offer help and save lives. Ann Swidler and Susan Cotts Watkins vividly describe the often mismatched expectations and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381976Author Madhura SwaminathanFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 742gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 166mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788125063490Author Sushma GoelFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788531450Author Kerstin HemstroemFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams) 350g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781536150599Author Igor JanevFormat HardbackPage Count 201Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 606g

This book, the third of a series, shows how shifting cultivators, from the Himalayan foothills to the Pacific Islands, have devised ways to improve their farming systems. Using case studies collected over many years, it considers the importance of...

Twenty-First Century India is the first study of India's development giving a fully integrated account of population and development. It is built on new projections of the population for fifty years from the Census of 2001. India's population then had...

Brazil is one of the most important but puzzling countries in the world. A nation of 200 million people, it has vast natural resource reserves, rich cultural traditions, a middle class undergoing explosive growth, and social welfare policies that are...

This book critically examines the ways in which sports contribute to, or inhibit, social well-being, the directions these changes take and the conditions necessary for sport to have beneficial outcomes. The themes addressed in the book demonstrate the...

The Niger Delta Region has in the past two decades experienced protracted violent conflicts. At the roots of these violent conflicts are the genuine quests of the people for sustainable development that is based on social justice, equity, fairness and...

This book examines the key Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) relating to environmental sustainability and provides a cutting-edge assessment of current progress with the view of achieving these goals by 2030.Within South Asia, the book pays particular...

Peasants are a majority of the world's poor. Despite this, there has been little effort to bridge the fields of peasant and poverty studies. Peasant Poverty and Persistence in the Twenty-first Century provides a much-needed critical perspective linking...

Rethinking African Agriculture argues that rural communities in Africa are still shaped by non-agrarian factors both in livelihood strategy and social formation.This volume renews and deepens the research on the African peasantry by offering a fresh...

This highly original and thought-provoking book examines the recent expansion of social protection in China, India, Brazil and South Africa - four countries experiencing rapid economic growth and social change.The authors explore the developments in each...

Innovation has the potential to address a number of development challenges such as combating poverty and delivering health services, but all too often technological progress has failed to consider the needs of the poor, and has actually served to...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855983765Author Melakou TegegnFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Oxfam ProfessionalPublisher Oxfam PublishingWeight(grams) 234gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...

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...

Despite several decades of reform, India's electricity sector remains marked by the twin problems of financial indebtedness and inability to provide universal, high quality electricity for all. Although political obstacles to reform are frequently...

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 9781905240173Author John BeauclerkFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint INTRACPublisher INTRACWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853391941Author Robert ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Practical Action PublishingPublisher Practical Action PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

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...

In this book, author Helene Thiesen recounts her experience of being forcibly removed from her family in Greenland as a young Inuk child, to be 're-educated' in Denmark and an orphanage in Greenland. The practice of forcible assimilation of indigenous...

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...

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,...

Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India's 'untouchables' and 'tribals' fit into the global...

Analysing the evolution of Lahore's social organization, culture and ideologies since Pakistan's independence in 1947, this book explores how social and cultural changes affect the social economy, spatial structure and the urban environment. It uncovers...

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...

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...

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 *...

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

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)...