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  • 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 €

  • 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
    Amidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in various countries, the Philippines’ booming housing industry has been heralded as 'Southeast Asia’s hottest real estate hub' and the saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This growth has been fueled by demand from balikbayan (returnee) Overseas Filipinos and has facilitated the rise of gated sub...
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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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 an...
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    64,84 €

  • 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 €


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