Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • Insights on Domestic Stakeholders and Climate Action
    Zakari Zirra
    This international relations text focuses on the key stakeholders driving climate action in Nigeria i.e. Non-Governmental Organisations, the Public Sector and the Private Sector. The eleven chapters analyse the nuances of climate change and climate action by these stakeholders in response to the provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). A...
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    20,17 €

  • Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambique
    Tanja Kleibl
    By demonstrating that Western conceptions of ’civil society’ have provided the framework for interpreting societies in the Global South, Decolonizing Civil Society in Mozambiqueargues that it is only through a critical deconstruction of these concepts that we can start to re-balance global power relationships, both in academic discourse and in development practices.Examining th...
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    154,49 €

  • Democracy and the Discourse on Relevance Within the Academic Profession at Makerere University
    Andrea Kronstad Felde / Anja Myrtveit / Tor Halvorsen
    Democracy and the Discourse on Relevance Within the Academic Profession at Makerere University is set against the backdrop of the spread of neoliberal ideas and reforms since the 1980s. While accepting that these ideas are rooted in a longer history, the authors reveal how neoliberalism has transformed the university sector and the academic profession. In particular, they focus...
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    68,46 €

  • Mobile Assemblages and Maendeleo in Rural Kenya
    Leah Jerop Komen
    In this book, Leah Komen explores the impact of mobile telephony on the lives of people in rural Kenya. The book analyses the outcomes of complex intersections and interactions between mobile phones, individuals, and the broader society as distinct from the traditional cause-effect relationships in the discourse of development in the changing world. It subverts the traditional ...
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    39,66 €

  • Imperialism and the development myth
    Sam King
    China and other Third World societies cannot ’catch up’. Much of the world’s work has moved to the poor countries, yet - through dominating critical aspects of labour process - a few rich, imperialist countries monopolise the benefits. China and the Third World will remain poor and the vast global social divide is - under the present system - permanent. ...
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    144,78 €

  • Participatory Rural Appraisal Approaches
    Francis K. Lelo / Joseph O. Ayieko / Njeri Muhia
    Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is a developmental method that has enabled many development organizations overcome the challenge of understanding and identifying the scope of local needs in which they operate. It aims to incorporate the knowledge and opinions of rural people in identifying and evaluating their needs, and hence in the planning, management, final implementati...
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    53,22 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    39,73 €

  • Youth In South Africa
    South Africa is characterised by a youthful population, and the challenges and possibilities that characterise the young generation are both warning signs and beacons of hope for a nation founded on social justice. Youth in South Africa: Agency, (in)visibility and national development takes stock of the nation’s development as it affects young people.Authors offer both personal...
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    92,86 €

  • Language and State
    Xing Yu
    This book argues that while humans communicate using language, they create and use media. Media extend the distance of communication. Humans form themselves into a large community. This happens in a long historical process in which the state of the civilized society replaces the tribe of the primitive society. Language replaces kinship in playing a role in the formation of huma...
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    36,34 €

  • Beyond Poverty
    Terry Dalrymple
    Answering the Cry of the Poor in a Million Villages The church is facing a strategic opportunity-85 percent of people living in extreme poverty around the world reside in villages. These villages are also home to the majority of the world’s least reached people. The church has historically played an active role in wholistic ministry and alleviating global poverty with a goal o...
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    11,27 €

  • COVID-19 Manifestation, Ramifications and Future Prospects for Zimbabwe
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    The advent of Coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) pandemic has caused much distress, despondence, fear and pandemonium across all nations of the world. In Zimbabwe, the emergence of the virus sent a chilling message of insecurity and need for conscientiousness and diligence, as the virus decimated humankind amid untold suffering. The pandemic came as a litmus test for the inte...
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    77,80 €

  • New Millennium Woes and Livelihood Struggles in Africa
    Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri / Ngonidzashe Marongwe
    One of the oldest survival pursuits undertaken by the weak and the downtrodden people across the world has been begging. Going back to the ancient Christian biblical times up to the present epoch as well as across varying spatial settings, in situations of trouble and tribulations, parts of various communities have resorted to beggary to either overcome immediate adversities or...
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    49,42 €

  • Rabies in the Streets
    Deborah Nadal
    Explores the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in urban India. Incorporates epidemiological goals within anthropological frameworks to investigate the ways in which people come into contact with animals and create favorable conditions for the rabies virus to flourish. ...
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    57,26 €

  • Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa
    In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisation. As Africa’s involvement in globalisation deepens, social phenomena are apparently synchronizing or becoming more similar to those in the rest of the world, but they are not homogenised with them, ...
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    81,39 €

  • Development Induced Displacements in Zimbabwe
    for Conflict CCMT
    Rural communities, particularly in developing countries, face perpetual risks of being displaced by infrastructure development projects (e.g. dams, roads, transmission lines), urban development and expansion projects, or large-scale commercial projects (e.g. mining, timber and agriculture). Development-induced displacements may lead to loss of land, livelihoods, shelter, proper...
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    39,70 €

  • The Transformation of Capacity in International Development
    Avideh K Mayville / Avideh K. Mayville
    'The Transformation of Capacity in International Development' exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approaches to development, the international management of global security threats and su...
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    57,37 €

  • Marx in the Field
    Alessandra Mezzadri
    Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ’to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be ad...
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    180,18 €

  • Entrepreneurs and SMEs in Rwanda
    David L. Poole
    Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have become the darlings of neoliberal development thinking, with the received wisdom being that such enterprises hold the key to the economic transformation of low-income countries. This thinking has profoundly influenced development policy in Rwanda, but has singularly failed to deliver the much anticipated emergence...
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    154,27 €

  • The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria
    Benjamin Maiangwa
    This book uses critical qualitative and narrative inquiry methods to discuss intercommunal conflicts in Kaduna, Nigeria. More broadly, the author examines these conflicts within the context of postcolonial African crises and local peacebuilding. ...
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    129,38 €

  • China in Ethiopia
    Aaron Tesfaye
    Examines China’s involvement in Ethiopia as the latter embarks on modernization and economic development. ...
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    41,01 €

  • Securing Land Rights
    Romie Vonkie Nghitevelekwa
    Securing land rights takes up themes at the centre of socio-political debates throughout the African continent. These relate to national struggles over access to land, land distribution, land rights and security of tenure. Land in much of rural Africa is communally held, a system that provides security of livelihood and a social safety net, but is not immune to appropriation by...
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    70,44 €

  • Friendship with a Purpose
    Kenneth R. Ross / Kenneth RRoss
    Poverty and underdevelopment continue to present a profound challenge globally. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals suggest that 'Partnership for the Goals' will be key to success. This booklet explores the innovative people-to-people partnership developed by Malawi and Scotland during the 21st century. It identifies distinctive features of this international coll...
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    33,97 €

  • Developing Countries and Technology Inclusion in the 21st Century Information Society
    In recent years, many developing regions across the globe have made rigorous efforts to become integrated into the global information society. The development and implementation of information communication technology (ICT) devices and policies within various fields of service have significantly aided in the infrastructural progression of these countries. Despite these consider...
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    268,99 €

  • Social Entrepreneurs & Change Makers
    Bose Creative Publishers
    Most often, the project started with one man, or one woman, and then the idea attracted more volunteers. We have in this book an NGO which got established in 1976 by a Swiss pilot, and one that got established in 2020 in response to the pandemic and the plight of daily wage workers in India. The range of social enterprises presented in this book, are from Europe, India, US and ...
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    7,56 €

  • Value Chain Development and the Poor
    This collection explores how VCD is implemented in the field, options for innovation in design, and the potential for VCD to achieve impact at scale. The book provides a timely critique of current approaches, pointing at options for more reflexive learning, new collaborative frameworks, and faster innovation of VCD. ...
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    142,14 €

  • Value Chain Development and the Poor
    This collection explores how VCD is implemented in the field, options for innovation in design, and the potential for VCD to achieve impact at scale. The book provides a timely critique of current approaches, pointing at options for more reflexive learning, new collaborative frameworks, and faster innovation of VCD. ...
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    56,35 €

  • Innovation Management and Growth in Emerging Economies
    Despite its economic impact, understanding what shaped emerging economies’ success seems to be a mystery. These complexities are compounded by fast moving technologies, such as the increased usage of artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT). These new technologies have a social impact, but it is how these impacts are developed and managed by people and comp...
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    281,91 €

  • The Future of Africa
    John W. Forje / John WForje
    This provocative book on The Future of Africa addresses fundamental genealogical developmental challenges of vital concern to Africa's transformation is premised on the orientation that the continent's future is up to Africans, cognizant of the fact that Africans cohabit the same diversified and inter-connected planet with others. The issues addressed include: political...
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    77,38 €

  • Developing Countries and Technology Inclusion in the 21st Century Information Society
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    203,13 €


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