Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • Multi-Level Governance in Developing Economies
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    196,53 €

  • Higher Education Pathways
    In what ways does access to undergraduate education have a transformative impact on people and societies? What conditions are required for this impact to occur? What are the pathways from an undergraduate education to the public good, including inclusive economic development?These questions have particular resonance in the South African higher education context, which is attemp...
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    70,28 €

  • Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines
    Arnisson Andre Ortega / Arnisson Ortega
    Based on years of field research, this study examines the construction of urban and suburban space in the Philippines since a recent housing boom caused by an influx of wealth from returning Filipino migrants. It analyzes various developments, such as the rise of gated suburban communities and their effects on marginalized populations. ...
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    58,00 €

  • Living (In)Dependence
    Living (In)Dependence: Critical Perspectives on Global Interdependence embraces a multidisciplinary approach to the interconnectedness of independence and dependence in every ramification of the words. These scholars and academics, from different disciplinary area, examine “independence” & “dependence”, not simply as polar opposites in their Saussurian sense but as a binary emb...
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    49,29 €

  • Research Universities in Africa
    François Van Schalkwyk / Ian Bunting / Nico Cloete
    From the early 2000s, a new discourse emerged, in Africa and the international donor community, that higher education was important for development in Africa. Within this ‘zeitgeist’ of converging interests, a range of agencies agreed that a different, collaborative approach to linking higher education to development was necessary. This led to the establishment of the Higher Ed...
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    70,27 €

  • A Gender Perspective of Municipal Solid Waste Generation and Management in the City of Bamenda, Cameroon
    Akum Hedwig Kien
    The management of urban waste constitutes one of the major environmental challenges facing African cities in general and Cameroon in particular. Unprecedented population growth and changes in consumption patterns and lifestyles have led to increased waste generation. Municipal solid waste management efforts lag behind the rate of waste generation with attendant environmental an...
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    70,77 €

  • The Khat Conundrum in Ethiopia
    Yeraswork Admassie
    In recent years, Ethiopia has experienced a rapid expansion of Khat production, marketing and consumption that has put her in a double bind. Her economy is becoming increasingly dependent on the production and export of Khat, the same way a significant section of her population is getting progressively enticed into its unbridled consumption. Khat abuse/addiction has led to seri...
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    39,95 €

  • The Education of Children Entangled in Khat Trade in Ethiopia
    Girma Negash
    In Ethiopia, khat cultivation is expanding aggressively in recent years. Regions that were formerly known for coffee production have become major khat producing areas. In Equal proportion, the habit of khat chewing is expanding at an alarming rate among different social groups irrespective of gender, age, religion and ethnic background. Khat has also become one of the leading e...
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    30,72 €

  • Social Stakes of Privatizations in Cameroon
    Hermann-Habib Kibangou
    The devaluation of the CFA franc and the early 90s mark the second wave of privatizations recommended by international financial institutions. The transition from a system of ''social goals'' to that of private capital becomes more and more evident. From the peoples’ point of view, the ongoing reforms imposed from outside often do not take into account the specific situation of...
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    19,43 €

  • Social Stakes of Privatizations in Cameroon
    Hermann-Habib Kibangou
    The devaluation of the CFA franc and the early 90s mark the second wave of privatizations recommended by international financial institutions. The transition from a system of ''social goals'' to that of private capital becomes more and more evident. From the peoples’ point of view, the ongoing reforms imposed from outside often do not take into account the specific situation of...
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    37,59 €

  • Who Knows Tomorrow?
    Sandra Calkins
    Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and i...
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    44,39 €

  • Inclusive Education in South Africa and the Developing World
    Sigamoney Manicka Naicker
    This book offers a framework for the implementation of inclusive education in developing countries. It proposes bringing the vulnerable to the centre of planning decisions, recognising the history of special education in psychologizing failure, and that mainstream must own the transformation to inclusive education. ...
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    98,66 €

  • A Cat and Mouse Affair
    Bruno Shora
    Clashes between vendors and authorities have become a common feature of Zimbabwe society. Though vending brings some undesirable effects such as chaotic and disorderly business practices it is noted that vending has a particular role to play in times of high unemployment. The relationship between vendors and the local authorities is reminiscent of a “cat and mouse affair”; high...
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    35,00 €

  • Multi-Level Governance in Developing Economies
    Effective governance is vital for all nations and can be made easier with advanced technology and communication. Through various collaborative efforts and processes, developing nations can enhance their economies with multi-level governance. Multi-Level Governance in Developing Economies is a collection of innovative research on the applications and theories of multi-level gove...
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    255,85 €

  • Development Naivety and Emergent Insecurities in a Monopolised World
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    It is common knowledge that development without security is like a runaway horse. Yet, development in Africa has been plagued by insecurities since the extractive periods of slave trade and colonialism. In spite of political independence and the euphoria of sovereignty as states, Africa has failed to address insecurity, which continues to loom large and to threaten aspirations ...
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    59,11 €

  • The Elusive African Renaissance
    George Klay Kieh
    Africa faces several major development challenges that have adversely affected the political and material well being of the majority of the people living there. This collection of new essays rigorously analyzes those frontier development issues--including democracy, leadership, the economy, poverty alleviation through microfinance schemes, food security, education, health...
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    64,84 €

  • Ruling Nature, Controlling People
    Luregn Lenggenhager
    Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peace parks are often embedded in narratives of economic development and ecological research. They are also increasingly marked by militarisation and violence. In Ruling Nature, Controlling People, Luregn Lenggenhager shows that these features were also characteristic of South African r...
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    46,92 €

  • SADC Gender Protocol 2018 Barometer
    The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development is the only sub-regional instrument in the world that brings together global and continental commitments to gender equality in one instrument used to enhance accountability. The Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance is a network of country and regional NGOs that campaigned for the Protocol, it’s updating, implementation and tracki...
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    92,41 €

  • Miracle Nation
    Israela Meyerstein
    'Miracle Nation: Seventy Stories About The Spirit Of Israel' captures the epic story of the miraculous rebirth of the modern Jewish nation in 1948 and its growth until today, bound up in the varied realms of religious fervor, social justice, political perspectives, and scientific discoveries. These passionate and powerful stories of individuals provide the framework for the rea...
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    18,89 €

  • Miracle Nation
    Israela Meyerstein
    'Miracle Nation: Seventy Stories About The Spirit Of Israel' captures the epic story of the miraculous rebirth of the modern Jewish nation in 1948 and its growth until today, bound up in the varied realms of religious fervor, social justice, political perspectives, and scientific discoveries. These passionate and powerful stories of individuals provide the framework for the rea...
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    29,27 €

  • Land is Life, Conservancy is Life
    Cameron Welch
    Community-based natural resource management or CBNRM, with its attention to community participation, its call for de-centralization of rights to local resource users through democratic and equitable structures, and its potential to deliver benefits to local livelihoods and national conservation interests now forms the predominant strategy for rural development in the communal a...
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    59,54 €

  • The Open Veins of Africa
    Tatah Mentan
    There is no discussion on Africa today that does not make reference to the contradiction that exists between its wealth of natural resources and the poverty of most of its people. Africa is not a poor continent, and not all Africans are poor. Yet Africa is depicted as the world’s poorest continent, where the majority of people live with no access to clean water, decent health c...
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    67,69 €

  • Migration in a Globalizing World
    Migration has assumed growing significance in the global development agenda as its potential for economic and social development is increasingly acknowledged. Within the Africa context, perceptions of migration as a negative phenomenon have shifted to recognition of its central role to Africa’s transformation. Despite this shift, emerging migration  dynamics have not been adequ...
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    49,48 €

  • Rethinking Irregular Migration
    Seedy Drammeh
    This book examines the causes of irregular migration, with particular focus on the mass movement of Gambian youth and youth from other parts of the world. These youth risk the journey across the dangerous desert to the Mediterranean Sea with the aim of reaching the West. Investigation shows that poor economic and bad political situations in many developing countries, together w...
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    35,56 €

  • Community-Oriented Education for Health Professionals
    Francis Sarr
    This book provides a framework for curriculum planning and makes the argument for an integrated and interdisciplinary training of health professionals at the community level in The Gambia. The benefits of such an approach are immense given that it is responsive to the socio-economic and cultural needs and demands of the community, which are central to the health of the communit...
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    32,19 €

  • Jokey Horse-Jockey North-South Rapport
    Nkwazi Mhango
    No doubt. North-South relationship involving poor and rich countries is very convoluted; based and built on exploitative, unequal and unfair equilibria. It is purely jockey-horse-like connubium that serves one party as it disserves the other. This is why deconstructing and detoxifying this relationship is sine qua non. The author argues that the parties in this relationship mus...
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    39,69 €

  • People-Centred Public Works Programmes
    Costain Tandi / Munyaradzi Mawere
    Poverty has long been a developmental challenge in the Global South in general and in sub-Saharan Africa in particular. With a fifth, mainly from the rural areas of the world, living below the poverty datum line, the world has a huge challenge to reduce poverty, worse still to eradicate it from the face of the earth. A target was set through the 2000-2015 United Nations (UN) Mi...
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    36,10 €

  • Food Security in Africa’s Secondary cities
    Emmanuel Chilanga / Liam Riley / Lovemore Zuze
    This report marks the first stage of AFSUN’s goal of expanding knowledge about urban food systems and experiences of household food insecurity in secondary African cities. It contributes to an understanding of poverty and sustainability in Mzuzu, Malawi, through the lens of household food security. The focus on food as an urban issue not only speaks to the development challenge...
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    34,49 €

  • How To Pack for a World Cruise
    Jackie Chase
    Anticipation is the key to everything we do. We all need help in finding ways to make our lives easier and less stressful. Let this book, 'How to Pack for a World Cruise' smooth out the wrinkles of preparing, organizing and finally packing for your incredible journey. Did your unnecessary stuff weigh too much? Long trips have unique challenges. Overlooking visa requirements can...
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    7,39 €

  • How To Pack for a World Cruise
    Jackie Chase
    Anticipation is the key to everything we do. We all need help in finding ways to make our lives easier and less stressful. Let this book, 'How to Pack for a World Cruise' smooth out the wrinkles of preparing, organizing and finally packing for your incredible journey. Did your unnecessary stuff weigh too much? Long trips have unique challenges. Overlooking visa requirements can...
    Disponible

    7,39 €


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