Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • Rwandan Economy at the Crossroads of Development
    This volume represents a cornucopia of research studies coming out of an international conference held in Kigali, Rwanda in 2018. The essays comprise contributions on various microeconomic and macroeconomic policy angles that are crucial for a less developed economy to embark on a road to recovery to converge with the desired trajectory. The topics encompass a broad range of is...
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    133,91 €

  • Whatever Happened to the Third World?
    Peter de Haan
    How can the successful development of some former Third World countries be explained, while other developing countries have remained stagnant or worse, have deteriorated into failed states? This book offers a history of the economics of development. De Haan examines how the right mix of policies and evolving insights in development economics have impacted certain countries with...
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    133,88 €

  • Science and Development in Thai and South Asian Buddhism
    David L Gosling
    This book, by a leading authority on the subject, considers the role of Thai Buddhist religious people in development within Thailand. ...
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    72,96 €

  • Political Financing in Developing Countries
    Joseph Luna
    This book argues that to fully grasp the decision-making of politicians and political actors in developing countries, we must first understand how politicians finance their campaigns for office-and to whom they are indebted and expected to repay. ...
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    35,91 €

  • Development and Poverty Reduction
    Globally poverty reduction is stilll a very important issue. This book considers poverty reduction from a global perspective. It highlights how issues are perceived from a non-Western perspective and how the rise of China is having a profound impact on poverty reduction globally and changing the way poverty reduction is approached. ...
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    72,96 €

  • The Sarvodaya Movement
    Praveena Rajkobal
    The book provides an important case study of how local cultures, religions and spiritualties can enhance development activities, and provide helpful frameworks for contemporary societies facing the pressures of neoliberalism. ...
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    73,47 €

  • Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon
    This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom. ...
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    73,04 €

  • Sex, Gender and Disability in Nepal
    Tulasi Acharya
    This book explores the sex lives of women with disabilities in Nepal. It shows that many women suffer more than men despite prevailing disability policies that emphasize non-discrimination against people with disabilities and argues that far from perceptions, women with disabilities are capable of leading fulfilling sexual lives. ...
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    35,86 €

  • America and the Indo-Pacific
    Harsh V Pant / Kashish Parpiani
    This book offers an extensive account of Donald Trump’s foreign policy record in the Indo-Pacific region. ...
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    241,59 €

  • A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra, Volume II
    Serge D. Elie
    This two-volume book offers a panoramic explanatory narrative of Soqotra Island’s rediscovery based on the global significance of its endemic biodiversity. The first volume, A Post-Exotic Anthropology of Soqotra: A Mesography of an Indigenous Polity in Yemen initiated the analytical inventory of the four key vectors of Soqotra’s transition process through a discussion of the fi...
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    136,68 €

  • NGOs, Civil Society and Structural Changes
    Acar Kutay
    This book suggests that our notions of civil society have undergone radical changes-including structural changes in the nature of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Such massive structural changes greatly problematize the older liberal view of a simple split between state and civil society actors which nonetheless remains dominant in m...
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    169,43 €

  • Issues and Challenges of Inclusive Development
    This book explores inclusive development in the Indian context, not only within each of the country’s major economic and social sectors, but also across countries in the particular context of globalization. In the emerging scenario of most expanding economies, including India, this topic remains particularly significant. The book’s sixteen chapters are divided into eight sectio...
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    136,40 €

  • Dilemmas of Energy Transitions in the Global South
    This book explores how urgent decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences for energy poverty, justice and democracy, especially in the global South. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, environmental justice, climate change and developing countries. ...
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    241,30 €

  • Entrepreneurship in the Fourth Sector
    'The fourth sector' is a relatively new sector that consists of for-benefit organizations that combine market-based approaches of the private sector with the social and environmental aims of the public and non-profit sectors. This book examines trends of entrepreneurship in the fourth sector, describes specific ecosystems fostering new ventures around the world, and characteriz...
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    47,50 €

  • Tawang, Monpas and Tibetan Buddhism in Transition
    This book presents various facets of border life in the strategic eastern sector of the India-China frontier, i.e. the Monpas of Tawang. It addresses the history of the Monpas’ transnational cultural and religious interaction. The respective chapters cover diverse topics such as culture, religion, the environment, border management, and social activism. The book offers a compel...
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    160,52 €

  • Regulating Telecommunications in South Africa
    Charley Lewis
    This book provides the first full account of the 20-year story of universal access and service in South Africa’s ICT sector. From 1994 the country’s first democratic government set out to redress the deep digital divide afflicting the overwhelming majority of its citizens, already poor and disenfranchised, but likewise marginalised in access to telephone infrastructure and serv...
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    68,89 €

  • Political Violence and Oil in Africa
    Zainab Ladan Mai-Bornu
    The book argues that in order to better understand the undercurrents of the Niger Delta conflict, it is imperative to analyse the dynamics of choice in terms of the distinct courses of action taken by the Ogoni and Ijaw. Given the similar structural constraints, the author considers why the Ogoni adopted nonviolent resistance, and the Ijaw violent resistance. This book is divid...
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    66,35 €

  • The Role of Monitoring and Evaluation in the UN 2030 SDGs Agenda
    Nadini Persaud / Ruby Dagher
    This book examines the UN 2030 SDGs Agenda and its comprehensive, multi-stakeholder approach to achieving a more human rights-based and environmentally sustainable development process. More crucially, it provides a much needed and innovative analysis of the role of Monitoring and Evaluation in this Agenda and the challenges that evaluators will face due to the Agenda’s inherent...
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    159,10 €

  • Reclaiming Development Studies
    Murat Arsel
    As the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly being challenged, this collection of essays argues for the continued necessity to ground the field in a critical political economy approach informed by the contributions of Ashwani Saith. ...
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    180,00 €

  • Order of East Asia
    Honghua Men
    This book describes the past, present and future of East Asian order, and analyzes how China, Japan, the U.S and ASEAN play important roles in the transformation of East Asian order, and discusses the new logic of regional order formation in the era of globalization and regional integration. The book analyzes China’s relationship with East Asian order, great powers and regional...
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    136,27 €

  • Youth Civic Engagement and Local Peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa
    Ibrahim Natil
    This book investigates the ways in which young people engage with and contribute to civil society, community development and local peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa. ...
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    88,66 €

  • Wealth Creation Approach to Reducing Global Poverty
    Scott Hipsher
    This book takes a unique approach to the topic of poverty reduction, primarily employing an international business framework as opposed to the usual economic or political lens. Some of the key ideas explored in the book include: poverty is primarily the lack of choices, not the lack of material possessions; attacking inequality of opportunity might be a more effective means to ...
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    169,74 €

  • Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South
    Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South emphasizes the importance of the neighbourhood in urban development planning, with case studies aimed at transforming current intervention practices towards more inclusive and just means of engagement with individuals and communities. The chapters explore how diversity of gender, class, race and ethnicity, citizenship status, age,...
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    70,43 €

  • Zimbabwe@40
    Zimbabwe @ 40 is a celebration of the country’s four decades of independence and statehood. Forty years is a relatively short period in a nation’s life, but it is a formative period: what lessons can be learnt from the successes and failures, challenges and opportunities of the last 40 years? What should be avoided in the next 40?Lloyd Sachikonye and David Kaulemu have assemble...
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    41,76 €

  • Poverty Reduction for Inclusive Sustainable Growth in Developing Asia
    This book provides practical policy recommendations that are useful for developing Asia and for accelerating poverty reduction plans in the rest of the world. Poverty reduction in all its forms remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. In developing Asia, rapid growth in countries and sub-regions such as China, India, and Southeast Asia has lifted millions out of ...
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    159,42 €

  • Social Capital and Collective Action in Pakistani Rural Development
    Shaheen Rafi Khan / Shahrukh Rafi Khan
    This book distinguishes conceptually between indigenous and constructed social capital and the associated spontaneous and induced collective action for rural development and natural resource preservation. While some of the case studies in this book show that induced collective action can lead to cost-effective, community-centric and empirically grounded rural development initia...
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    134,66 €

  • The Post-Crisis Developmental State
    The focus of this volume is on the role of the developmental state in a situation in which a series of major crises affects the (semi-) periphery of the global economy. The authors go beyond the established debate on developmental states in East Asia by highlighting a much broader understanding of development and a very different global economic context. They also further the e...
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    168,81 €

  • International Relations in the Anthropocene
    This textbook introduces advanced students of International Relations (and beyond) to the ways in which the advent of, and reflections on, the Anthropocene impact on the study of global politics and the disciplinary foundations of IR. The book contains 24 chapters, authored by senior academics as well as early career scholars, and is divided into four parts, detailing, respecti...
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    46,82 €

  • Redefining the Agenda for Social Justice
    Francine Mestrum / Meena Menon
    The book relates three years of history of social movements from Asia and Europe who work on social justice, as a rough overview. The work for the book is mainly done on the ground, day after day, working in villages and cities, with people and their organisations, organising resistance and preparing alternatives. It is based on the fact that European and Asian concerns are ide...
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    48,62 €

  • Border Ireland
    Cathal McCall
    Border Ireland: From Partition to Brexit introduces readers to the Irish border. It considers the process of bordering after the partition of Ireland, to the Good Friday Agreement and attendant debordering, to the post-Brexit landscape. ...
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    88,75 €


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