Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • 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 €

  • Neighbourhoods and Public Health
    Saleha Jamal / Uzma Ajmal
    This book examines the concept of neighbourhood over space and time and understands how neighbourhoods can impact human health and well-being. It discusses the identification of neighbourhood boundaries, features of individual neighbourhoods, and the concept of neighbourhood in some major world as well as Indian cities. ...
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    240,87 €

  • Ubuntu Philosophy and Disabilities in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Oliver Mutanga
    This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to illuminate the voices of people with disabilities from Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
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    241,16 €

  • Constructing a Cross-Border Region in the Pacific Northwest
    Pierre-Alexandre Beylier
    For residents living at national borders, the divisions between countries are rarely black and white, and often everyday interactions contribute to the creation of a cross-border region. ...
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    241,00 €

  • Ubuntu Philosophy and Decolonising Social Work Fields of Practice in Africa
    This book addresses a recurrent gap in social work literature by examining Ubuntu as an Indigenous African philosophy that informs social work beyond the largely residual and individualistic conceptualisation of social work that currently prevails in many contexts. ...
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    240,44 €

  • Empowering Women Through Microfinance in Developing Countries
    Empowering Women Through Microfinance in Developing Countries is a book that explores how microfinance can be used to empower women in developing countries. It provides theoretical and empirical insights from industry experts, experienced researchers, and policymakers on the problems, processes, and prospects of using microfinance as a catalyst for women’s empowerment in the de...
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    314,57 €

  • Empowering Women Through Microfinance in Developing Countries
    Empowering Women Through Microfinance in Developing Countries is a book that explores how microfinance can be used to empower women in developing countries. It provides theoretical and empirical insights from industry experts, experienced researchers, and policymakers on the problems, processes, and prospects of using microfinance as a catalyst for women’s empowerment in the de...
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    235,65 €

  • Debt Crisis and Popular Social Protest in Sri Lanka
    S. Janaka Biyanwila
    Fusing the regional with the global, this book widens its perspective from a distinct, national moment to an international interdependency with the power to ripple across every corner of the globe. ...
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    149,71 €

  • Multinationals, Poverty Alleviation and UK Aid
    Jo-Anna Russon
    This book analyses the relationship between the private sector, UK official development aid (ODA) and poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book will interest researchers from business management, development studies and political science, as well as to practitioners with an interest in the role of the private sector in ODA. ...
    Disponible

    240,80 €

  • Remittances and Financial Inclusion
    Vincent Guermond
    This book comprehensively explores the messy and contested relationship between everyday practices of remittance sending and receiving, processes of market making, and operations of micro- and global finance. ...
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    241,21 €

  • Partitions of the Heart
    Harsch Mander
    There was one partition of the land in 1947. Harsh Mander believes that another partition is underway in our hearts and minds.How much of this culpability lies with ordinary people? What are the responsibilities of a secular government, of a civil society, and of a progressive majority? In Partitions of the Heart: Unmaking the Idea of India, human rights and peace worker Harsh ...
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    27,91 €

  • Youth Development in South Africa
    Youth Development in South Africa: Harnessing the Demographic Dividend is a compelling snapshot of thirty years of South Africa’s democratic dispensation and what it has meant for the youth of the country, as well as how its demographic dividend can be harnessed for a fairer society in the future. ...
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    149,74 €

  • The Boric Government in Chile
    This book analyses the victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile during the presidential elections of December 2021. Conceived from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book will interest students, scholars and practitioners, interested in the evolution of the Latin American left in general, and the Chilean left specifically. ...
    Disponible

    241,16 €

  • The Aceh Separatism Conflict in Indonesia
    Novri Susan
    This book is the first to analyse the practice of governance to resolve conflict in the case of Aceh in Indonesia. Combining theoretical discourse on conflict, democracy, and governance, it draws from original field research on the separatist conflict, utilizing a social constructivist approach in collating observations and interviews with political elites from both the Governm...
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    60,50 €

  • Foreign Aid and Its Unintended Consequences
    Dirk-Jan Koch
    Foreign aid and international development frequently bring with it a range of unintended consequences. Providing a clear overview of what side effects to anticipate when planning, executing, and evaluating aid, this book will be an important resource for students, development practitioners, and policymakers alike. ...
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    68,97 €

  • The Educational Hopes and Ambitions of Left-Behind Children in Rural China
    Yang Hong
    This monograph highlights the educational experiences of rural children who are ’left behind’ by their migrant worker parents in China, analyzing how this situation impacts on their aspirations and self-identity. ...
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    70,83 €

  • Women-Owned SMEs in Emerging Markets
    Shabnam Shalizi
    This book investigates women as business owners in emerging markets, documenting the structural difficulties they face as a result of their seeking access to global supply chains, and demonstrating the ways in which they are rewriting norms and challenging market assumptions.   ...
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    73,41 €

  • Passages of Fortune?
    Aswini Kumar Nanda / Jacques Véron / S. Irudaya Rajan
    This book examines international out-migration from North India, focusing on the state of Punjab. It is the first-ever empirical exploration of the causes, processes, patterns and consequences of international out-migration based on a robust sample of 10,000 households. ...
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    72,73 €

  • America and the Indo-Pacific
    Harsh Pant / 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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    73,85 €

  • Corruption and Development in Nigeria
    This book argues that corruption lies at the heart of many of the Nigeria’s problems. This book will be of interest to researchers of corruption, development and African Studies, as well as to policy makers, practitioners, and local stakeholders. ...
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    73,42 €

  • Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers
    Sophie Henderson
    This book uses the cases of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive, intersectional, rights-based approach to better protect women migrant domestic workers against exploitation.It will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of migration studies, gender studies, human rights law, and Asian Studies. ...
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    73,46 €

  • Migrants and Refugees at UK Borders
    Yasmin Ibrahim
    This book investigates the hostile environment and politics of visceral and racial denigration which have characterised responses to refugees and migrants within the UK and Europe. Of interest to researchers of migration, humanitarianism, geography, global development, sociology and communication studies. ...
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    73,46 €

  • Health Sector, State and Decentralised Institutions in India
    Shailender Kumar Hooda
    This book describes the transition in Indian healthcare system since independence and contributes to the ongoing debate within development and institutional economics on the approaches towards reform in the public health system. ...
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    73,12 €

  • Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa
    Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau
    This book explores the relationship between the responsibility to protect principle; and the establishment of the International Criminal Court, intended to punish perpetrators. The book advocates a ’protection first, punishment later’ model. ...
    Disponible

    73,21 €

  • The Role of Language in the Wellbeing of Migrants
    Zi Wang
    This book examines the correlations between language behaviour and happiness amongst communities of migrants, and asks whether language can affect wellbeing. It will be of interest to scholars and students of area studies, education, international migration, sociology of language, and wellbeing research. ...
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    73,49 €

  • The Social Context of Technological Experiences
    Anant Kamath
    This book demonstrates how technology and society shape one another and that there are intrinsic connections between technological experiences and social relationships by a study of three urban groups in India: traditional caste-based handloom weavers, subaltern Dalit communities, and informal female labour. ...
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    73,68 €

  • Conservation Landscapes and Human Well-Being
    This book studies the well-being of the eastern Himalayan forest-dwellers in terms of their capabilities and functioning. It examines the educational and health opportunities afforded to farmers living and working in the Protected Areas of North Bengal, India. ...
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    73,66 €

  • The Affordable Housing Market in India
    Malcolm Harper / Padmini Ram
    This book examines the housing crisis in India and underlines the need for formal affordable housing markets. The book examines actual causes of the problem and the financial and political issues which underlie it. It analyses perspectives of slum-dwellers, builders, bureaucrats and politicians, and offers policy recommendations. ...
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    73,60 €

  • Urban Green Space, Health Economics and Air Pollution in Delhi
    Kavita Arora / Rachna Mathur / Swati Rajput
    This book looks at the ecological stress on cities and engages with challenges of reducing vulnerabilities and risks of pollution on the health, well-being and livelihoods of people living in developing countries. Cities are the world’s highest energy consumption and the biggest producers of toxic wastes and pollutants.   ...
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    73,52 €

  • Resettlement in Asian Countries
    This book examines land acquisition and resettlement experience in Asian countries, where nearly two-thirds of the world’s development-induced displacement currently takes place. ...
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    72,92 €


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