Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • The Political Economy of Divergent Welfare States in the Global South
    Elias Phaahla
    This study traces the welfare regimes of Mauritius and South Africa from the early 20th century focusing on the historical circumstances that gave rise to the dominance of state-funded old-age pensions within their respective welfare frameworks. It highlights intersections between powerful business interests, the state, and social forces that sowed the seeds of social entit...
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    144,70 €

  • Exploring Education and Democratization in South Asia
    This volume brings together scholars, practitioners, activists, and students to reflect on socio-political transitions taking place in countries across South Asia and their implications for democracy and education. It provides an important intervention for comparative education in South Asia by looking at the kind of ideological tensions that exist within the education systems,...
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    193,78 €

  • Europe in an Era of US-China Strategic Rivalry
    Sebastian Biba
    This volume examines some of the major challenges and opportunities for Europe in the light of the intensifying US-China global strategic rivalry. In doing so, the book investigates European roles and behavior in the contemporary US-China-Europe triangular relationship. While the book’s focus is on Europe, the contributors originate from, or are based in, the US and China, thus...
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    157,05 €

  • Drivers of SME Growth and Sustainability in Emerging Markets
    Various sectors of emerging markets face unique challenges, largely related to the gap between small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) research and practice. The relationship between SMEs and agriculture, tourism, and other key industries requires a close examination to understand the intricacies of their interplay. An emphasis on the need to bridge this gap, and strategies for...
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    327,72 €

  • Drivers of SME Growth and Sustainability in Emerging Markets
    Various sectors of emerging markets face unique challenges, largely related to the gap between small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) research and practice. The relationship between SMEs and agriculture, tourism, and other key industries requires a close examination to understand the intricacies of their interplay. An emphasis on the need to bridge this gap, and strategies for...
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    248,81 €

  • Recolonizing Africa
    Mariam Mniga
    Explaining how the legacy of colonialism and the nature of the liberal economy play a significant role in the development of Africa today, keeping the continent poor and dependent, Recolonizing Africa explains how trade liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had opened doors for the new scramble for Africa. ...
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    241,12 €

  • Recolonizing Africa
    Mariam Mniga
    Explaining how the legacy of colonialism and the nature of the liberal economy play a significant role in the development of Africa today, keeping the continent poor and dependent, Recolonizing Africa explains how trade liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had opened doors for the new scramble for Africa. ...
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    69,34 €

  • The Indian Economy
    Ananya Ghosh Dastidar / Rajib Bhattacharyya
    This book provides a detailed structured analysis of the transition that has taken place in the Indian economy since independence to the present times (including the period of Covid-19 pandemic). ...
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    240,73 €

  • Gulf Ideological Dynamics
    GEW Reports & Analyses Team. / Hichem Karoui (Editor)
    The Gulf ideological system is a set of interconnected beliefs and principles governing the region’s political, economic, social, and cultural spheres. It combines various ideologies, including religious, nationalist, tribal, and pan-Islamic ideologies. It is shaped by a combination of historical, cultural, and socio-economic factors. Political alliances, economic shifts, socia...
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    32,90 €

  • The Principle of Solidarity
    This edited volume explores the principle of solidarity in international and EU law. Although the concept is regularly invoked in international and EU legal and policy debates alike, its meaning, nature and functions, as well as normative contours still remain nebulous.The contributions in this volume reflect on the legal trajectory of solidarity in international and EU law and...
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    210,12 €

  • Sanitation in Humanitarian Settings
    R.A Reed
    In an emergency the collection, treatment and disposal/reuse of human waste is critical to the health, wellbeing and environment of affected populations. This comprehensive manual will guide individuals through all stages of the sanitation chain in a wide range of contexts. ...
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    205,61 €

  • Sanitation in Humanitarian Settings
    R.A Reed
    In an emergency the collection, treatment and disposal/reuse of human waste is critical to the health, wellbeing and environment of affected populations. This comprehensive manual will guide individuals through all stages of the sanitation chain in a wide range of contexts. ...
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    81,08 €

  • Examining the Rapid Advance of Digital Technology in Africa
    Lloyd G. Adu Amoah
    There are essential questions surrounding Africa’s digitalization journey, including whether or not the continent can truly serve as the last frontier for socio-economic transformation through digital innovation. An examination of countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and Rwanda, which are actively pursuing digitalization, may provide some answers. To evaluate the potential ...
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    308,33 €

  • Examining the Rapid Advance of Digital Technology in Africa
    Lloyd G. Adu Amoah
    There are essential questions surrounding Africa’s digitalization journey, including whether or not the continent can truly serve as the last frontier for socio-economic transformation through digital innovation. An examination of countries such as Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and Rwanda, which are actively pursuing digitalization, may provide some answers. To evaluate the potential ...
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    235,92 €

  • Reimagining Prosperity
    This book explores the second-order effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic development in India. The chapters in this volume provide theoretical perspectives and empirical insights from a range of disciplines including history, economics, water management, food and nutrition security, agriculture, rural management, public health, urbanization, gender studies an...
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    195,25 €

  • Saving Societies From Within
    Jerald Hage / Joseph J. Valadez / Wilbur C. Hadden
    Moving beyond existing models from economics and political science, this book shows how crises in capitalism and democracy can be solved with systematic coordinated inter-organizational networks. ...
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    240,74 €

  • Saving Societies From Within
    Jerald Hage / Joseph J. Valadez / Wilbur C. Hadden
    Moving beyond existing models from economics and political science, this book shows how crises in capitalism and democracy can be solved with systematic coordinated inter-organizational networks. ...
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    66,24 €

  • Religious Organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
    Carole Rakodi
    This book explores the links between religion, states, social welfare and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. ...
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    240,69 €

  • African Perspectives on Agroecology
    Rachel Wynberg
    The voices of African farmers, activists, scientists, scholars and policy-makers combine in this volume share a dynamic vision of a world where agriculture is productive, diverse and sustainable; where different ways of seeing and knowing are respected; and where seed and food systems are in the hands of farmers and local communities. ...
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    195,83 €

  • African Perspectives on Agroecology
    Rachel Wynberg
    The voices of African farmers, activists, scientists, scholars and policy-makers combine in this volume share a dynamic vision of a world where agriculture is productive, diverse and sustainable; where different ways of seeing and knowing are respected; and where seed and food systems are in the hands of farmers and local communities. ...
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    78,23 €

  • From Colonial Seaports to Modern Coastal Cities
    Edmund Li Sheng
    This book explores China’s ambition to build itself into a maritime power. Despite having a continental coastline of 18,000 kilometers and territorial waters that cover an area one-third the size of its land mass, China has traditionally been considered a continental power. However, Beijing is currently trying to change this historical situation through two national strategies....
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    170,21 €

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Social Development, Social Work, and the Sustainable Development Goals
    The Routledge International Handbook on Social Development, Social Work, and the Sustainable Development Goals answers the question: What is the contribution of social development and social work to the Sustainable Development Goals? ...
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    374,56 €

  • Reformers in International Development
    David de Ferranti
    This book details the stories of five exceptional international development leaders: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Domingo Cavallo, Ela Bhatt, Dzingai Mutumbuka, and Adolfo Figueroa. While many books focus on what to do to help rising nations, this one shows the human story of who brings about change and how. ...
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    240,83 €

  • Reformers in International Development
    David de Ferranti
    This book details the stories of five exceptional international development leaders: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Domingo Cavallo, Ela Bhatt, Dzingai Mutumbuka, and Adolfo Figueroa. While many books focus on what to do to help rising nations, this one shows the human story of who brings about change and how. ...
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    44,69 €

  • The Politics of Art, Death and Refuge
    Helen Hintjens
    This book deals in different ways with the politics of death, with art and politics and with the politics of refuge and asylum. Cutting across these fields brings to the fore the fluid quality of social life under late capitalism. The elements of time, space and emotion are part of the overall approach adopted. The individual chapters illustrate themes of despair, striving and ...
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    161,04 €

  • The Drivers and Outcomes of Global Health Diplomacy
    Maria Berta Ecija
    This book investigates the Brazilian health cooperation in Mozambique through the implementation of a pharmaceutical factory in Maputo. ...
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    158,26 €

  • Resettlement with People First
    This book puts forward powerful counterfactual case studies to assess what problems real-world development projects would likely have avoided if the project had followed a higher standard, such as the World Commission on Dams policy framework. For academic researchers, development practitioners, and policy makers. ...
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    240,83 €

  • Pluriversal sovereignty and the state
    Ajay Parasram
    This book explains how the processes of ’total territorial rule’ at the core of the modern international system became normalised in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). It develops a decolonial framework informed by a ’pluriverse’ of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation. ...
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    157,53 €

  • Gender, Sexuality and Social Justice
    Bringing together young scholars from Latin America, Africa and Asia, this book addresses the intersections of gender, sexuality and social justice in relation to dominant development and policy discourses and interventions. This book will interest social scientists and activists, development scholars and practitioners across fields. ...
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    240,86 €

  • Dear Development Practitioner
    In this book, influential development practitioners reflect on their careers by writing letters of advice to their younger selves. Sharing their successes, failures, challenges, career barriers, the changes and continuities within their work, these accounts provide invaluable windows into the world of development practice. ...
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    241,18 €


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