Catálogo de libros: Estudios del desarrollo

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  • The Politics of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Latin America
    Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez
    This book will be a key resource for researchers across political science, corruption studies, development, and Latin American Studies. It will also be valuable guide for policy makers and professionals in NGOs and international organizations working on anti-corruption advocacy and policy advice. ...
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    72,94 €

  • Comparing Police Corruption
    Leslie Holmes
    This book analyses police corruption across four country case studies. It will be of considerable interest to students and researchers across corruption studies, criminology, police studies, and security studies, as well as practitioners working in anti-corruption and law enforcement agencies. ...
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    73,32 €

  • Foreign Aid and Development in South Korea and Africa
    Jiyoung Kim / Kelechi A. Kalu
    This book compares the rapid development of South Korea over the past seventy years with selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa to assess what factors contributed to the country’s success story, and why it is that countries which were comparable in the past continue to experience challenges in achieving and sustaining economic growth. ...
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    73,05 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Asian Cities
    Richard Hu
    This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian cities - developed and developing, large and small - and their urban development. ...
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    334,26 €

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainable Peace and Security in Africa
    Dan Kuwali
    This handbook takes stock of the African Union’s Vision 2020 to rid the African continent of wars, civil conflicts, human rights violations, and humanitarian disasters - including violent conflicts and genocide - and provides recommendations on how to address contemporary threats to peace and security in Africa. It explores the continent’s current peace and security landscape, ...
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    248,13 €

  • Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces
    This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil societ...
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    70,65 €

  • Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces
    This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil societ...
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    47,94 €

  • Civil Society Responses to Changing Civic Spaces
    This open access book contributes to thriving debates in academic as well as professional circles about the role of civil society in shrinking civic spaces, rising authoritarianism and right-wing populism, conflicts, fragile states, and most lately, the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is one of the first books to address the implications of changing civic spaces for civil societ...
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    60,24 €

  • Social Work, Social Welfare, and Social Development in Nigeria
    Mel Gray / Solomon Amadasun
    This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive account of social work, social welfare, and social development in Nigeria from a postcolonial perspective. ...
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    214,13 €

  • Non-Territorial Autonomy
    This Open Access textbook is a result of the work of ENTAN - the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network. It provides students with a comprehensive analysis of the different aspects and issues around the concept of non-territorial autonomy (NTA). The themes of each chapter have been selected to ensure a multi- and interdisciplinary overview of an emerging research field and s...
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    72,98 €

  • Non-Territorial Autonomy
    This Open Access textbook is a result of the work of ENTAN - the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network. It provides students with a comprehensive analysis of the different aspects and issues around the concept of non-territorial autonomy (NTA). The themes of each chapter have been selected to ensure a multi- and interdisciplinary overview of an emerging research field and s...
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    62,38 €

  • Non-Territorial Autonomy
    This Open Access textbook is a result of the work of ENTAN - the European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network. It provides students with a comprehensive analysis of the different aspects and issues around the concept of non-territorial autonomy (NTA). The themes of each chapter have been selected to ensure a multi- and interdisciplinary overview of an emerging research field and s...
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    48,17 €

  • Two Bengals
    Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal share many characteristics, including a common language, fertile land, abundant rainfall, year-round warmth, and a dense population. This book examines the progress made in crucial economic sectors that have paved the way for the development of Bangladesh and West Bengal. The book begins by describing how Bangladesh is moving towar...
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    242,21 €

  • Two Bengals
    Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal share many characteristics, including a common language, fertile land, abundant rainfall, year-round warmth, and a dense population. This book examines the progress made in crucial economic sectors that have paved the way for the development of Bangladesh and West Bengal. The book begins by describing how Bangladesh is moving towar...
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    47,43 €

  • Making Politics in Zimbabwe’s Second Republic
    The book provides a fresh and innovative interpretation of the new government of Zimbabwe led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, which emerged in late 2017 after the downfall of Robert Mugabe. It demonstrates the contradictory character of the Mnangagwa government, involving both continuities and discontinuities in relation to Mugabe’s regime . The temptation amongst Zimbabwean scholars ha...
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    159,49 €

  • Making Politics in Zimbabwe’s Second Republic
    The book provides a fresh and innovative interpretation of the new government of Zimbabwe led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, which emerged in late 2017 after the downfall of Robert Mugabe. It demonstrates the contradictory character of the Mnangagwa government, involving both continuities and discontinuities in relation to Mugabe’s regime . The temptation amongst Zimbabwean scholars ha...
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    47,87 €

  • The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains
    Alexander E. Davis
    The book addresses the urgent need for rethinking the geopolitics and ecology in the Himalaya, by emphasising the entanglements between these two factors. Most international relations analyses of the Himalaya emphasize the central role of the region’s states and their great power struggles. By reducing the region to its state actors, however, we miss the intense more-than-human...
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    48,34 €

  • In Quest of Humane Development
    This book presents a multidimensional perspective on the interlinkage between human development, community characteristics and public service delivery with special reference to India. The chapters in the book analyze the influence of public service delivery on human development from neo-classical as well as Marxian point of view. Thus, the expositions in the book provides a bal...
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    197,75 €

  • The Geopolitics of Melting Mountains
    Alexander E. Davis
    The book addresses the urgent need for rethinking the geopolitics and ecology in the Himalaya, by emphasising the entanglements between these two factors. Most international relations analyses of the Himalaya emphasize the central role of the region’s states and their great power struggles. By reducing the region to its state actors, however, we miss the intense more-than-human...
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    144,88 €

  • Disaster, Governance and Development
    Mohammad Tarikul Islam
    This book unveils the nexus between disaster, governance and development with a particular focus on Bangladesh and examines the legislative and institutional aspects in mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development planning. With the help of rich content analysis interpreting disaster management history of the country, it looks at the challenges associated with disaste...
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    135,02 €

  • Disaster, Governance and Development
    Mohammad Tarikul Islam
    This book unveils the nexus between disaster, governance and development with a particular focus on Bangladesh and examines the legislative and institutional aspects in mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development planning. With the help of rich content analysis interpreting disaster management history of the country, it looks at the challenges associated with disaste...
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    47,69 €

  • Humanitarian Displacement and Boko Haram in Nigeria
    Medinat Abdulazeez Malefakis
    The book analyses the management of the internal displacement caused by activities of Boko Haram’s terrorist insurgence in Nigeria. With over 3.1m persons displaced, the humanitarian crisis is at teeter ends with acute malnourishment, inadequate wash and non-relief materials, improper hygiene facilities, and lack of access to basic relief aid for displaced persons. The array of...
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    148,22 €

  • Languages, Linguistics and Development Practices
    This edited book presents case-studies and reflections on the role of languages and their analytic study in development practices across four regions: Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. The authors highlight the importance of conceptual studies of languages and cultures, as well as language choice, for enhancing development practices, demonstrating the value that languag...
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    195,44 €

  • The Power of Perceptions in the Middle East
    Malaka Samara / Warda Samara
    This book analyzes conflicting political views and narratives held by different forces, both at the local and regional levels in the Middle East. Based on case studies and analysis of local economic projects, it highlights the often conflicting concepts and visions for economic and social development in the Middle East as espoused by rival political groups and grassroots organi...
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    135,90 €

  • The United Nations and Sustainable Development Goals
    The book is a collection of analyses on country-specific and universal efforts, programmes and projects from Africa and beyond, aimed at realising the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Specifically, the chapters focus on the achievements and challenges that can potentially aid countries of the world and the United Nations in achieving the 17 SDGs. The chapters focus more on...
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    148,76 €

  • Marx in the Field
    Alessandra Mezzadri
    Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ’to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be ad...
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    50,11 €

  • Social Movements and the Struggles for Rights, Justice and Democracy in Paraguay
    Paraguay is an under-examined, but remarkably fascinating country, where war, dictatorship, and elite capture have produced cycles of popular mobilization and repression. Yet, its social movements are less known to international audiences. This book analyzes Paraguay’s principal social movements since the transition to democracy and examines how, in the context of a weak state,...
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    48,01 €

  • Social Movements and the Struggles for Rights, Justice and Democracy in Paraguay
    Paraguay is an under-examined, but remarkably fascinating country, where war, dictatorship, and elite capture have produced cycles of popular mobilization and repression. Yet, its social movements are less known to international audiences. This book analyzes Paraguay’s principal social movements since the transition to democracy and examines how, in the context of a weak state,...
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    169,09 €

  • Social Work During COVID-19
    This book focusses on social work in the time of COVID-19. Social workers, their clients, as well as the organisations they represent have been affected by the pandemic in multiple ways. ...
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    213,81 €

  • Child Rights in Humanitarian Crisis
    This book demonstrates how a focus on children’s rights can help practitioners to safeguard children during humanitarian crisis. Combining insights from both research and practice, this book will be an essential read for humanitarian students and practitioners. ...
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    214,04 €