Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • Islam and International Development
    Islam and International Development centres around analysis of successful projects that have respected and incorporated Islamic teachings into their design and delivery, so that development professionals and Muslim communities can work together to effect meaningful and sustainable change. ...
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    106,81 €

  • Perspectives on ICT4D and Socio-Economic Growth Opportunities in Developing Countries
    Technology has been hailed as one of the catalysts toward economic and human development. In the current economic era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, information acquisition, transformation, and dissemination processes are posed to be the key enablers of development. However, in the context of developing countries, there is a need for more evidence on the impact that ICT h...
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    282,69 €

  • Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa
    Samantha Page
    This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa to investigate sexual cultural practices and their link with HIV/AIDS. The author provides an overview of both the field of study and the methods used during f...
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    77,36 €

  • Development, Sexual Cultural Practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa
    Samantha Page
    This open access book introduces the theoretical frameworks and academic debates concerning sexual cultural practices and HIV/AIDS in Africa. It shows how these frameworks have been applied in a practical sense in Africa to investigate sexual cultural practices and their link with HIV/AIDS. The author provides an overview of both the field of study and the methods used during f...
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    62,99 €

  • Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?
    Jeffrey Williamson / Luis Bértola
    This book brings together a range of ideas and theories to arrive at a deeper understanding of inequality in Latin America and its complex realities. To so, it addresses questions such as: What are the origins of inequality in Latin America? How can we create societies that are more equal in terms of income distribution, gender equality and opportunities? How can we remedy the ...
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    82,19 €

  • Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?
    Jeffrey Williamson / Luis Bértola
    This book brings together a range of ideas and theories to arrive at a deeper understanding of inequality in Latin America and its complex realities. To so, it addresses questions such as: What are the origins of inequality in Latin America? How can we create societies that are more equal in terms of income distribution, gender equality and opportunities? How can we remedy the ...
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    96,55 €

  • Technologies for Development
    Jean-Claude Bolay / Samira Najih Besson / Silvia Hostettler
    This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action...
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    77,97 €

  • Technologies for Development
    Jean-Claude Bolay / Samira Najih Besson / Silvia Hostettler
    This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action...
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    63,61 €

  • A Region in Revolt
    Jade Saab
    A wave of mass protest movements has spread across North Africa and West Asia, including Sudan, Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon and Iran. The mass protests have much in common, from opposing authoritarian regimes and worsening economic situations to demanding radical changes in social relations. Despite their similarities, each protest movement operates under different conditions that c...
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    23,49 €

  • Solar Pumping for Water Supply
    Alberto Ibáñez Llario / Asenath W. Kiprono
    Solar power for pumping groundwater has a vast potential for improving the sustainability of water supply schemes. However a lack of knowledge is holding back their adoption. This book bridges this gap to equip engineers and technicians with the knowledge for design, implementation and operation of sustainable solar powered water schemes. ...
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    106,63 €

  • Perspectives on ICT4D and Socio-Economic Growth Opportunities in Developing Countries
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    216,84 €

  • Innovation Management and Growth in Emerging Economies
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    216,06 €

  • Advances in Women’s Empowerment
    What progress has been made to achieve SDG5? Bridging the academic and policymaking spaces, this edited collection offers a critical insight and evaluation of the public policies targeted at improving the condition of women living in developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. ...
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    142,89 €

  • Malawi
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    128,34 €

  • Cross-cultural Organizational and Financial Training
    John Cammack
    Cross-Cultural Organizational and Financial Training offers a clear and accessible way of designing, planning, delivering, and evaluating training, using participatory approaches. It uses 10 countries as examples and a toolkit of activities, helpful responses and tips, to help trainers prepare for similar scenarios wherever they are. ...
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    102,61 €

  • In the Absence of the Gift
    Anders Emil Rasmussen
    By adopting ideas like "development," members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives "What about me?" This detailed e...
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    44,73 €

  • From Plough to Entrepreneurship
    Vusumuzi R. Kumalo / Vusumuzi RKumalo
    From Plough to Entrepreneurship is motivated largely by the fact that Africans were deprived of economic and political autonomy by white government in South Africa. This marginalisation lies in the complex and interconnected processes of displacement and dispossession by which Africans were first dispossessed of their own land; then deprived of independent productive opportunit...
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    49,77 €

  • The Broken Ladder
    Anirudh Krishna
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    35,64 €

  • In Someone Else’s Country
    Trenita Brookshire Childers
    In this groundbreaking work, Trenita Childers explores the enduring system of racial profiling in the Dominican Republic, where Dominicans of Haitian descent are denied full citizenship in the only country they have ever known. As birthright citizens, they now wonder why they are treated like they are “in someone else’s country.” ...
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    115,35 €

  • In Someone Else’s Country
    Trenita Brookshire Childers
    In this groundbreaking work, Trenita Childers explores the enduring system of racial profiling in the Dominican Republic, where Dominicans of Haitian descent are denied full citizenship in the only country they have ever known. As birthright citizens, they now wonder why they are treated like they are “in someone else’s country.” ...
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    43,40 €

  • SDG7 - Ensure Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable, and Modern Energy
    Charles Nhemachena / Godwell Nhamo
    SDG7 visualizes a world in which energy is universally accessible, efficient and renewable in order to create sustainable, inclusive and resilient communities. This book explores the implementation challenges of SDG7, offers potential solutions, and maps out a way in which global energy systems might be transformed. ...
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    84,46 €

  • Governing the Urban in China and India
    Xuefei Ren
    An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous pressures on land use, housing, and the envi...
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    47,63 €

  • Governing the Urban in China and India
    Xuefei Ren
    An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous pressures on land use, housing, and the envi...
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    163,86 €

  • Securitising Monstrous Bottoms in the Age of Posthuman Carnivalesque?
    Placing security studies in the context of contemporary discourses about the “colonial comeback” and posthumanism, this book postulates the notion of staticide which avers that the effacement of African state sovereignty is crucial for the security of the oncoming empire. Understood in the light of posthumanism, antihumanism, animism, postanthropocentrism and transhumanism; Afr...
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    62,86 €

  • 40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development
    Athena Lathouras / David Palmer / Peter Westoby
    40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development invites readers to deepen their practice by reflecting on the roots of their practice; expand their practice through introduction to thinkers who perhaps people have not heard of before; and to disrupt practice by re-thinking taken-for-granted assumptions or habits. ...
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    36,09 €

  • Unravelling the Mysteries of Africa’s Underdevelopment
    John W. Forje / John WForje
    Unravelling the mysteries of Africa’s underdevelopment presents an Afrocentric ideological understanding of the continent’s fragmentation; a scientific and objective (Mijadala) discourse as well as an approach of how to move progressively and sustainably Africa forward. The breadth and depth of the book shows the unwavering impoverishment and urgent need for the continent to st...
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    112,36 €

  • Sustainability in the Political and Socio-Economic Spheres of Development in Zimbabwe
    Sustainability is often just looked into as found at the intersection between economic, environmental and equity (3Es) variables, also referred to as production, planet and people (3Ps). However, the major determinants of global environmental change are the human species themselves. While they are part of the three Es, they go further to create a fourth pillar, the institutions...
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    180,58 €

  • Handbook of Research on Managing Information Systems in Developing Economies
    Richard Boateng
    Technology provides accessibility otherwise unavailable to the people who can benefit from it the most. As new digital tools become less expensive and more widely available, research and real-world cases that examine the union between emergent countries and information systems are essential in determining the next steps for these nations. The Handbook of Research on Managing In...
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    387,88 €

  • Beyond Tenderpreneurship
    MISTRA
    Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies have been a central pillar of attempts to overcome the economic legacy of apartheid. Yet, more than two decades into democracy, economic exclusion in South Africa still largely reflects the fault-lines of the apartheid era.Current discourse often conflates BEE with the so-called ‘tenderpreneurship’ referred to in the title, namely the rel...
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    83,09 €

  • World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined
    In a time of turmoil in international economic law, experts from 10 countries suggest ideas for a new and progressive trade and investment regime in ’World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined’ that would help sustain growth, facilitate development and ensure that gains are shared and losses compensated. ...
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    57,31 €


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