Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • A Social History of Cuba’s Protestants
    James A. Baer / James ABaer
    This book presents a religious and social history of Cuba’s development as a nation and its relationship with the United States by examining the role of Presbyterian and other Protestant churches before and after the revolution in 1959. ...
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    128,82 €

  • Strategic Marketing for Social Enterprises in Developing Nations
    Many governments in developing nations are finding it nearly impossible to address challenges posed to their countries, including poverty, disease, and high levels of youth unemployment. Thus, social entrepreneurs are attempting to address these social challenges through the creation of social enterprises. However, further research is needed as to what social entrepreneurship i...
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    256,12 €

  • 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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    180,09 €

  • Digital Diasporas
    Radhika Gajjala
    Explores the manifestation of Indian identity, embodiment and affect online in the context of the global marketplace. ...
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    135,87 €

  • Necroclimatism in a Spectral World (Dis)order?
    Highlighting the problematiques of working with a narrow version of greenhouse effects or global warming, this book posits the theory of necroclimatism that encompasses broader versions of greenhouse effects and global warming. Conceiving cultures, societies, moral sensibilities, epistemologies, polities, economies, legal systems and religions of the formerly colonised peoples ...
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    58,96 €

  • Zimbabwe Will Never be a Colony Again!
    Munoda Mararike
    This is a thought-provoking original book, based on a wealth of empirical case studies of how Zimbabwe experienced illegal economic sanctions. It is a study of how the humanly constructed obstructions – from external remittances/finance flows into the country to finance embargos or total financial blockages – are deliberately created by so-called ‘powerful’ governments to deal ...
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    61,98 €

  • Digital Diasporas
    Radhika Gajjala
    Explores the manifestation of Indian identity, embodiment and affect online in the context of the global marketplace ...
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    44,48 €

  • Strategic Marketing for Social Enterprises in Developing Nations
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    196,80 €

  • Social Protests in Colombia
    Mauricio Archila Neira / Camilo Ordoñez-Zambrano
    This book rethinks the second half of the twentieth century in Colombia by putting subaltern sectors at the core of the narrative and examining their crucial role in shaping Colombian society. The author incorporates theories from diverse social sciences including subaltern studies and postcolonial approaches. ...
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    162,82 €

  • The Sustainability Ethic in the Management of the Physical, Infrastructural and Natural Resources of Zimbabwe
    Innocent Chirisa
    Humanity has extensively exploited natural and physical resources, since the Industrial Revolution in Europe. A geological era, now called the Anthropocene, has been coined in environmental and developmental circles, to mark the increased domination of humanity on Earth and its resources. Today, the ecological footprint on the fragile planet continues to increase. Mass industri...
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    141,21 €

  • The State of Open Data
    It’s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile, issues related to data rights and privacy have moved to the centre of public and political discourse. As the open data movement ent...
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    111,78 €

  • Management by Seclusion
    Glynn Cochrane
    50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the increase everywhere. In this book, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glyn...
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    203,92 €

  • Management by Seclusion
    Glynn Cochrane
    50 years ago, World Bank President Robert McNamara promised to end poverty. Alleviation was to rely on economic growth, resulting in higher incomes stimulated by Bank loans processed by deskbound Washington staff, trickling down to the poorest. Instead, child poverty and homelessness are on the increase everywhere. In this book, anthropologist and former World Bank Advisor Glyn...
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    38,29 €

  • Agricultural Reform in Rwanda
    Chris Huggins
    International observers have lauded Rwanda as an example of an African country taking control of its own development trajectory, and as a market-friendly destination for investment. A key component of this narrative has been an ambitious programme of agricultural reform, involving private firms, NGOs, and international charities. The Rwandan government claims these reforms have...
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    39,47 €

  • Education in Tanzania in the Era of Globalisation
    Education in Tanzania in the Era of Globalisation Challenges and Opportunities is a product of papers presented at a National Education Conference held in Dodoma, Tanzania in November 2016 and organised by the Aga Khan University-Institute for Educational Development, East Africa (AKU-IED-EA). At present, Tanzania’s development direction is guided by Vision 2025, which aims to ...
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    59,48 €

  • Food Security in Africa’s Secondary Cities
    Jonathan Crush / Lawrence Kazembe / Ndeyapo Nickanor
    This is the first research report to examine the nature and drivers of food insecurity in the northern Namibian towns of Oshakati, Ongwediva, and Ondangwa. As well as forming part of a new body of research on secondary urbanization and food security in Africa, the report makes systematic comparisons between the food security situation in this urban corridor and the much larger ...
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    35,31 €

  • African Markets and the Utu-Ubuntu Business Model
    Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
    The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows ...
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    39,70 €

  • Rethinking and Unthinking Development
    Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa's former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic,...
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    184,08 €

  • Playing the Marginality Game
    Anita Schroven
    In Guinea, situated in the background of central government struggles, rural elites use identity politics, through history and contemporary political reforms to maintain their privileges and perpetuate a generation-old local social contract that bridges ethnic and religious divides. Simultaneously, administrative reform and national unrest lead to the creative re-combination of...
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    184,35 €

  • Digitalization and the Field of African Studies
    Mirjam de Bruijn
    Urbanization in Africa also means rapid technological change. At the turn of the 21st century, mobile telephony appeared in urban Africa. Ten years later, it covered large parts of rural Africa and – thanks to the smartphone – became the main access to the internet. This development is part of technological transformations in digitalization that are supposed to bridge the urban...
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    31,58 €

  • Displacement, Elimination and Replacement of Indigenous People
    Colonial scholars have taken immense pleasure in portraying Africans as possessed by spirits but as lacking possession and ownership of their resources, including land. Erroneously deemed to be thoroughly spiritually possessed but lacking senses of material possession and ownership of resources, Africans have been consistently dispossessed and displaced from the era of enslavem...
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    49,45 €

  • Grid-locked African Economic Sovereignty
    The emergent so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” is regarded by some as a panacea for bringing about development to Africans. This book dismisses this flawed reasoning. Surfacing how “investors” are actually looting and plundering Africa; how the industrial internet of things, the gig economies, digital economies and cryptocurrencies breach African political and economic s...
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    76,86 €

  • Social Work Practice in Africa
    The importance of integrating indigenous knowledge systems into mainstream social work and ensuring context-specific, culturally relevant practice has long been emphasised in Africa and the Global South. This book, based on empirical research, presents a selection of indigenous and innovative models and approaches of problem solving that will inspire social work practice and ed...
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    59,63 €

  • Exploring the Dynamics of Consumerism in Developing Nations
    Ayantunji Gbadamosi
    As developing nations increase their consumption rate, their relevance in the global marketplace grows. Existing assumptions and postulations about consumer consumption in various societies are being displaced largely due to the dynamic nature of the market. However, research has not been adequately devoted to explore the developments in consumer behavior in developing nations,...
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    295,48 €

  • Exploring the Dynamics of Consumerism in Developing Nations
    Ayantunji Gbadamosi
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    223,10 €

  • Making the New Middle East
    Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, from the Iranian Green Movement and the Arab Spring uprisings to Turkey's March for Justice and the ongoing struggle in Palestine. Although expectations raised by the Arab Spring were largely disappointed and protests that toppled entrenched rulers unleas...
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    113,46 €

  • Democratic Engineering in Rwanda and Burundi
    Jean-Marie Kagabo
    In Democratic Engineering in Rwanda and Burundi the author argues that a democratic model which is suitable for single-cultural societies may not be applicable in multicultural societies; he illustrates that the liberal and socialist theories have not addressed the issue of national minorities which threatens peace and stability in most African countries. The author investigate...
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    98,11 €

  • Challenges and Opportunities for Inclusive Development in Ethiopia
    As part of its on-going public dialogue program on progress in Ethiopia’s development and public policy the Forum for Social Studies is undertaking a project of research and public dialogue on a number of selected topics on the theme of 'Prospects and Challenges for Inclusive and Participatory Development in Ethiopia'. The aim is to enable researchers and professionals ...
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    80,83 €

  • SIHA Journal
    SIHA
    Women in Islam explores the complexities of gender relations in Muslim communities in the Horn of Africa and beyond, engaging critically with the social, political and cultural challenges associated with the intersection of Islam and gender. With an eclectic selection of essays, academic papers, opinion pieces and personal narratives punctuated with poetry and art, the journal ...
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    44,05 €

  • Migration, Remittances and Household Socio-Economic Wellbeing
    Asnake Kefale / Zerihun Mohammed
    In recent years, a large number of Ethiopians are travelling to various countries as labour migrants. The Republic of South Africa and the oil-rich Gulf countries have emerged as major destinations for many documented as well as undocumented Ethiopian labour migrants. The majority of the migrants send a substantial amounts of money back to the country for different purposes. Ou...
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    40,86 €


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