Estudios del desarrollo

Consulta, información y materias interdisciplinarias / Estudios interdisciplinarios / Estudios del desarrollo (708)

Consulta, información y materias interdisciplinarias / Estudios interdisciplinarios / Estudios del desarrollo
Libros Eliminar filtro Consulta, información y materias interdisciplinarias Eliminar filtro Estudios interdisciplinarios Eliminar filtro Estudios del desarrollo Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • 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...
    Disponible

    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...
    Disponible

    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...
    Disponible

    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...
    Disponible

    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...
    Disponible

    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...
    Disponible

    36,10 €

  • Biographies de la Radicalisation
    Mirjam de Bruijn
    La radicalisation est devenue un mot désignant notre monde en couleurs négatives. Ce livre cherche à comprendre ce que c’est que la radicalisation au Sahel et aux Pays-Bas ? Est-elle seulement négative? Quelle diversité de processus sociaux et politiques se trouve derrière ce concept? Les biographies de personnes nous dévoilent les messages cachés dans ce genre de dynamiques. Y...
    Disponible

    46,76 €

  • 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...
    Disponible

    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...
    Disponible

    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 €

  • Judge Knot
    Todd N Tucker / Todd N. Tucker
    ’Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development. ...
    Disponible

    165,69 €

  • Judge Knot
    Todd N Tucker / Todd N. Tucker
    ’Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development. ...
    Disponible

    57,53 €

  • Mobile Technologies and Socio-Economic Development in Emerging Nations
    As technology advances, mobile devices have become more affordable and useful to countries around the world. As a result, mobile evolution has become an essential part of economic and social advancement. Mobile Technologies and Socio-Economic Development in Emerging Nations provides emerging research on the role of mobile devices as an important aspect of social and economic gr...
    Disponible

    256,06 €

  • Rethinking Securities in an Emergent Technoscientific New World Order
    The emergent technoscientific New World Order is being legitimised through discourses on openness and inclusivity. The paradox is that openness implies vulnerability and insecurities, particularly where closure would offer shelter. While some actors, including NGOs, preach openness of African societies, Africans clamour for protection, restitution and restoration. Africans stru...
    Disponible

    58,91 €

  • Migration by Boat
    Lynda Mannik
    At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, bu...
    Disponible

    44,36 €

  • Liberation and Technology
    Gussai H. Sheikheldin / Gussai HSheikheldin
    “The most fundamental difference between ‘developing’ and ‘developed’ societies is technology, in a broad yet specific sense”; so states the author of this important study, Liberation and Technology: Development possibilities in pursuing technological autonomy. The ways in which technology is developed, institutionalized, animated and celebrated, form the core of ‘development’ ...
    Disponible

    43,49 €

  • Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India
    Kenneth Bo Nielsen
    ’Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India’ analyses the political mobilization of farmers in Singur, West Bengal, in defence of their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the internal politics of one of India’s most talked-about new land wars. ...
    Disponible

    165,67 €

  • No Dancing, No Dancing
    Denis Dragovic
    What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left?No Dancing, No Dancing follows the return journey of a former aid worker back to the site of three major humanitarian crises—South Sudan, Iraq and East Timor—in search of what happened to the people and projects. Along the way, he looks for answers to how we ca...
    Disponible

    21,34 €

  • How Africa Developed Europe
    Nkwazi Mhango
    Whether Africa is developed or not, depends on how and what one addresses. Development is relative. Nonetheless, the fact is: Africa developed Europe; and thereby became underdeveloped. Addressed academically, the notion of development creates many questions amongst which are: Development in what? Whose development? Development for whom? Who defines development? In this volume,...
    Disponible

    49,43 €

  • Jostling Between 'Mere Talk' & Blame Game?
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    One of the fundamental challenges in rethinking and remaking development in Africa from a Pan African perspective is that too much “mere talk” and “blame game” have played out at the expense of “real action”. The blame game and mere talk on Africa’s poverty and underdevelopment jam have remained printed in bold on the face of the continent, yet Africa’s dire situation warrants ...
    Disponible

    58,99 €

  • Affordability Issues Surrounding the Use of ICT for Development and Poverty Reduction
    As the world becomes digitalized, developing countries are starting to see an increase in technological advancements being integrated into their society. These advancements are creating opportunities to improve both the economy and the lives of people within these areas. Affordability Issues Surrounding the Use of ICT for Development and Poverty Reduction is a relevant scholarl...
    Disponible

    256,01 €

  • 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 ...
    Disponible

    44,14 €

  • The Supermarket Revolution and Food Security in Namibia
    Jonathan Crush / Lawrence Kazembe / Ndeyapo Nickanor
    The surprisingly high rate of supermarket patronage in low-income areas of Windhoek, Namibia’s capital and largest city, is at odds with conventional wisdom that supermarkets in African cities are primarily patronized by middle and high-income residents and therefore target their neighbourhoods. What is happening in Namibia and other Southern African countries that make superma...
    Disponible

    36,15 €

  • Multiple Faces of Khat
    Asnake Kefale / Zerihun Mohammed
    FSS, in collaboration with the Civil Society Support Programme I(CSSPI), designed and implemented a project on khat in Ethiopia. The project had three components: research, national conference and production of a documentary film. The research contained, two studies based on rigorous field research and using qualitative and quantitative data. The research reports, the socio-eco...
    Disponible

    49,96 €

  • The Political Economy of Poverty, Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Management
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development. Scholars in the Global North have since the Second World War sought to research poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, postulating what they think are the major causes of insipid and abject poverty in the continent, but with little or no success on how to solve...
    Disponible

    59,02 €

  • Open Data in Developing Economies
    Andrew Young / Stefaan G. Verhulst / Stefaan GVerhulst
    Recent years have witnessed considerable speculation about the potential of open data to bring about wide-scale transformation. The bulk of existing evidence about the impact of open data, however, focuses on high-income countries. Much less is known about open data’s role and value in low- and middle-income countries, and more generally about its possible contributions to econ...
    Disponible

    61,29 €

  • Knowledge for Justice
    Henri-Count Evans / Hilde Ibsen / Tor Halvorsen
    With the adoption of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, the purpose of development is being redefined in both social and environmental terms. Despite pushback from conservative forces, change is accelerating in many sectors. To drive this transformation in ways that bring about social, environmental and economic justice at a local, ...
    Disponible

    43,43 €

  • Corruption in Africa
    Jimanze EgoAlowes
    The underlying assumption of this work is that of all the epidemics afflicting Nigerian, and nay African people, ignorance is the most prevalent and deadliest. The book is split in two sections: The first is an inquiry into the nature and causes of corruption in nations and into corruption, while the second builds on the findings of the first and offers related essays and discu...
    Disponible

    43,19 €

  • El Perú visto desde las Ciencias Sociales
    Alan Fairlie Reinoso
    'La Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la PUCP fue fundada en 1964 con tres áreas de especialización: Sociología, Ciencias Políticas y Desarrollo Económico que más adelante se transformó en Economía, y en 1967 se agregó la especialidad de Antropología. Aunque Ciencias Políticas solo duró hasta 1971, en el año 2005, luego de más de tres décadas, se incorporó a la facultad la espec...
    Disponible

    19,55 €

  • CONTEXT
    This is a book that is timely for the current set of challenges facing companies which find their beginnings in the African environment. The authors have taken great pains to bring to light business frameworks that have been largely part of high-performance companies for quite some time, but are largely absent as part of management philosophy and discussions in Africa. There i...
    Disponible

    46,90 €


Primera 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 Última