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Poverty, Class and Gender in Rural Africa: A Tanzanian Case Study by John Sender
RRP: £43.99£38.44Focussing on a Fieldwork study of the West Usambaras in Tanzania, this study, first published in 1990, deals with processes of class formation and capitalist accumulation, and the dynamics of rural poverty and gender relations. Arguing that rural... -
The Dynamics of Human Development: A Partial Mobility Perspective by Atanu Sengupta
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book studies the dynamic aspects of the Human Development Index (HDI) through a partial mobility perspective. It offers a new axiomatic structure and a set of mobility indices to discuss partial trends and interrogate the human development status at... -
Development Aid: A Fresh Look by George Mavrotas
RRP: £89.99£34.61This book addresses several gaps in knowledge of aid allocation and effectiveness and provides new analytical insights. Topics covered include the interface between aid allocation and perceptions of aid effectiveness, the year-on-year volatility of aid... -
Mismanaging Innovation Systems: Thailand and the Middle-income Trap by Patarapong Intarakumnerd
RRP: £135.00£117.28Once recognised as a high-performing newly industrialising Asian economy with the potential for economic and developmental success similar to South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, Thailand's growth rate and competitive edge have declined... -
Housing Reform and China's Real Estate Industry: Review and Forecast by Pengfei Ni
RRP: £44.99£44.97This book provides an in-depth analysis of China's housing system and real-estate industry .The author weaves together the different elements of the real estate industry into a logically coherent whole, in which the relationship between the real-estate... -
Get Off the Bench: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Networking Through Relationships by Sidney E Fuchs
RRP: £12.99£9.52Create Value Through Relationships Are you someone who gets off the bench and into the game by realizing the value and importance of people and networking, or do you stay on the bench and on the sidelines altogether? Strategic networking will help you... -
Power Entertaining: Secrets to Building Lasting Relationships, Hosting Unforgettable Events, and Closing Big Deals from America's 1st Master Sommelier by Eddie Osterland
RRP: £16.99£11.54Master the art of entertaining and cement lasting business relationships in the process You're at a fancy downtown restaurant for dinner with a million-dollar business deal on the table. The waiter hands you the wine list. Now what? So much for that... -
China's Economic Development and Democratization by Dr Yanlai Wang
RRP: £37.99£33.38China's Economic Development and Democratization examines China's transformation from an institutional perspective. It proposes an analytical framework comprising six macro institutional environments: international, ideological, political, economic,... -
A New World is Possible: The Modernization of China by Yu Jiang
RRP: £109.99£104.62This book gives a panoramic review of China's 70 years of modernization, reveals the historical process and logic of the formation of the modernization path with Chinese characteristics, especially focuses on the key decision-making process in the... -
Communicating National Integration: Empowering Development in African Countries by Osabuohien P Amienyi
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book addresses the negative impact of social cleavages on the development of many African countries. It proposes new ideas on how the development crisis in Africa may be addressed by conceptualizing the underlying problem as a communication issue... -
Community Development in Asia and the Pacific by Manohar S. Pawar
RRP: £41.99£36.75There is a tremendous need for community development practice in the Asia-Pacific region due to its size and prevailing diverse socio-economic, political and cultural needs and issues. Both developed and developing countries have been reemphasizing the... -
The Third World in Soviet Military Thought by Mark Katz
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1982, this study traces the development of Soviet military thinking on the Third World and assesses its importance for the conduct of Soviet foreign policy. Changes in Soviet military thought often reflect changes in Soviet attitudes... -
Human Development in Iraq: 1950-1990 Bassam Yousif 9780367866198
RRP: £39.99£35.06This systematic evaluation of Iraq's political economy and human development offers a complex and sophisticated analysis of Iraq's recent history. Focusing on the period from 1950 up to the Gulf war in 1990, the book brings an understanding of how... -
Corporate Technological Behaviour: Co-opertation and Networks by Hakan Hakansson
RRP: £37.99£33.38Efficient technological strategy is an increasingly important element in industrial profitability. An understanding of networks - the formal and informal web of contacts between suppliers, producers and customers - is vital to the application of such... -
Agriculture and Industry in Brazil: Innovation and Competitiveness by Albert Fishlow
RRP: £58.00£45.18Agriculture and Industry in Brazil is a study of the economics of Brazilian agriculture and industry, with a special focus on the importance of innovation to productivity growth. Albert Fishlow and Jose Eustaquio Ribeiro Vieira Filho examine... -
Key Determinants of National Development: Historical Perspectives and Implications for Developing Economies by Kwaku Appiah-Adu
RRP: £120.00£104.61For those wishing to acquire knowledge on national development issues, this comprehensive compendium traverses a spectrum of subjects that the audience ought to be well acquainted with. The Editors provide instructive findings regarding national... -
Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in South America by Gustavo De L. T. Oliveira
RRP: £135.00£117.68Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of modernist agro-industrial practices, serving as a key nexus in food-feed-fuel production that underpins the... -
Urbanisation in the Developing World by David W. Drakakis-Smith
RRP: £43.99£38.44First published in 1986, this reissue is concerned with the increased social problems, regional imbalances, and economic dislocation resulting from the alarming growth rate of cities in the developing world. It considers theoretical questions and... -
Poverty and Water: Explorations of the Reciprocal Relationship by David Hemson
£38.75Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water. In this book, co-editors David Hemson, Kassin Kulindwa, Haakon Lein, and Adolfo Mascarenhas use a global spread of case studies to illustrate... -
Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics Jay Drydyk 9780367629458
RRP: £43.99£38.84The Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics provides readers with insight into the central questions of development ethics, the main approaches to answering them, and areas for future research. Over the past seventy years, it has been argued and... -
From Agglomeration to Innovation: Upgrading Industrial Clusters in Emerging Economies by Akifumi Kuchiki
£93.77This book provides a coherent and useful framework to explain the formation of agglomeration and the endogenous innovation process of upgrading industrial clusters to the higher R&D. It contains country studies including; China, India, Japan, Brazil,... -
New Trends in Development Theory: Essays in Development and Social Theory by Peter Preston
£39.04The theme of this work, first published in 1985, is the exchange between issues of development and problems of social theory. They provide preliminary analysis of the multiplicity of social-theoretic arguments in development theory and their implications... -
Religion and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia by Carole Rakodi
RRP: £41.99£36.75This book analyses how religion is entangled in people's lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. It provides an introduction to the teachings, practices and values promoted by the main religious traditions in these regions and an overview of the... -
Problems in Class Analysis: Production, knowledge, and the function of capital Guglielmo Carchedi 9781032398815
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1983, Problems in Class Analysis presents a coherent theory of labour's domination by capital, based upon the notion of the capitalist nature of both the product relations and of the productive forces themselves, including science and... -
Development Theory: Four Critical Studies by David Lehmann
RRP: £43.99£38.44The studies in this book, first published in 1979, offer an all-encompassing contemporary critique of the sociology, politics and economics of development as they are 'conventionally' taught and disseminated. They also seek to outline the beginnings... -
Think Fast!: Accurate Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Planning in Minutes a Day by Guy A. Hale
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apply proven critical thinking processes and supercharge your business Alamo Learning Systems has been providing Critical Thinking Skills (CTS), problem solving, decision-making, preventive action, and innovation training solutions to the corporate world... -
Population and Development of the Arab Gulf States: The Case of Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait by Nadeya Sayed Ali Mohammed
RRP: £37.99£33.38This thought-provoking study measures and critically examines the effects that an averageA population growth rate of 2.8% could have on the development of the Arab Gulf States.A ItA questions the ability of Gulf governments toA continue providing... -
Sovereign Wealth Funds in Resource Economies: Institutional and Fiscal Foundations by Malan Rietveld
RRP: £62.00£48.22Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have reached a transitional moment. Created as a way to direct excess wealth toward economic development and long-term financial returns, some countries are now seeing a decline in revenue from sources such as oil. Many SWFs... -
Village Work: Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana by Alice Wiemers
RRP: £66.00£56.93This detailed and groundbreaking history of rural Ghanaian statecraft details the crucial importance that local village development systems have on regional and national scales.Book InformationISBN 9780821424452Author Alice WiemersFormat HardbackPage... -
Privatization and Deregulation: Needed Policy Reforms for Agribusiness Development by Surjit S. Sidhu
£92.99The contributions in this publication are an outcome of growing concerns around the world about the prevailing inefficiencies in agriculture and agribusiness and the need to improve productivity, profitability, and financial sustainability of... -
The Global Gag Rule and Women's Reproductive Health: Rhetoric Versus Reality by Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
RRP: £38.99£29.60Foreign assistance by the United States is tangled with domestic politics, and perhaps this is most clear in relation to funding for health and family planning. The long arm of U.S. domestic politics has reached the intimate lives of women all over the... -
Blind Spot: Illuminating the Hidden Value in Business by Steve Diller 9781933820699
RRP: £26.99£25.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820699Author Steve DillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media -
Analytical Development Economics: The Less Developed Economy Revisited by Kaushik Basu 9780262523448
£52.94Virtually all industrialized nations have annual per capita incomes greater than $15,000; meanwhile, over three billion people, more than half the worlds population, live in countries with per capita incomes of less than $700. Development economics... -
Thailand's Industrialization and its Consequences by Medhi Krongkaew 9780333625194 [USED COPY]
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Assessing the Demographic Impact of Development Projects: Conceptual, methodological and policy issues A. S. Oberai 9781032321769
RRP: £27.99£24.28First published in 1992, Assessing the Demographic Impact of Development Projects based on studies in developing countries focuses on conceptual, methodological and policy issues related to development projects. -
Institutions and Public Policy for India’s Sustainable Development: Perspectives on Governance, Technology, and Finance Sukhpal Singh 9781032516493
RRP: £135.00£114.75Sustainable development has emerged as an overarching concern globally. Given the challenges of climate change, national economies, especially in the developing world, face unsustainable levels and patterns of growth and development. This volume looks at... -
Polycrisis and Economic Development in the Global South Hebatallah Adam 9781032694320
RRP: £135.00£114.75Global polycrisis refers to the simultaneous occurrence of multiple interconnected crises. It is marked by the convergence and interaction of combined events, such as geopolitical tensions, economic instability, environmental degradation, public health... -
Reimagining Development: Bold Directions Towards a Thriving World Peter Sutoris 9781911723134
RRP: £25.00£21.25Imagining a better future is at the heart of development. But mainstream development models are driven by a very narrow, Western- centric set of ideas about what it means to be human. What could be possible if we let ourselves imagine differently? As... -
The Economics of Financial Inclusion Firdous Ahmad Malik 9781032655130
RRP: £130.00£110.50This book offers a thorough examination of the economics of financial inclusion and management from a contemporary standpoint. It covers a vast array of financial inclusion-related topics, surveying economies around the globe and analyzes the factors...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £130.00£110.50Subtotal: -
Development, Transformations and the Human Condition: Essays in Honour of Jayati Ghosh Sumangala Damodaran 9781032866376
RRP: £36.99£31.44The world is grappling to come up with alternative imaginations for transformation despite repeated crises, inequalities and immiseration caused by the increasing dominance of the neo-liberal capitalist framework and the collapse of twentieth-century...