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
  • Rendering South Africa Undesirable
    Caroline Skinner / Jonathan Crush / Manal Stulgaitis
    To understand the policy environment within which refugees establish and operate their enterprises in South Africa’s informal sector, this report brings together two streams of policy analysis. The first concerns the changing refugee policies and the erosion of the progressive approach that characterized the immediate post-apartheid period. The second concerns the informal sect...
    Disponible

    36,57 €

  • Comparing Refugees and South Africans in the Urban Informal Sector
    Cameron McCordic / Godfrey Tawodzera / Jonathan Crush
    This report compares the business operations of over 2,000 South Africans and refugees in the urban informal economy and systematically dispels some of the myths that have grown up around their activities. First, the report takes issue with the perception that South Africans are inexperienced and unmotivated participants in the informal economy. Many have years of experience an...
    Disponible

    35,52 €

  • Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements in Lilongwe Malawi
    Emmanuel Chilanga / Juliana Ngwira / Liam Riley
    Although there is widespread food availability in urban areas across the Global South, it is not correlated with universal access to adequate amounts of nutritious foods. This report is based on a household survey conducted in 2015 in six low-income informal areas in Malawi’s capital city, where three-quarters of the population live in informal settlements. Understanding the di...
    Disponible

    36,57 €

  • SADC Gender Protocol 2017 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, its updating, implementation and trackin...
    Disponible

    93,02 €

  • A History of Rwandan Identity and Trauma
    Randall Fegley
    Few societies have faced the difficulties of identity building experienced by Rwanda. This book’s introduction reviews literature on the concepts of myth and trauma, and then introduces basic information on Rwanda and how it has been viewed by the outside world. Chapter One describes early Rwanda’s political and cultural development, traditional narratives, group migrations, th...
    Disponible

    58,73 €

  • Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
    Eve E. Buckley / Eve EBuckley
    Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertao, plagued ...
    Disponible

    41,31 €

  • Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil
    Eve E. Buckley / Eve EBuckley
    Eve E. Buckley’s study of twentieth-century Brazil examines the nation’s hard social realities through the history of science, focusing on the use of technology and engineering as vexed instruments of reform and economic development. Nowhere was the tension between technocratic optimism and entrenched inequality more evident than in the drought-ridden Northeast sertao, plagued ...
    Disponible

    126,83 €

  • Africa’s Dependency Syndrome
    Nkwazi Mhango
    There are milliards of off beam assumptions that Africa will always remain immobile in development of whatever type. This view has mainly been propounded by Western thinkers in order to make Africans internalise and reinforce this supposed dependency.  Africa needs to embark on paradigm shift; and tweak and turn things around. Africa has what it take to do so quickly, especiall...
    Disponible

    39,57 €

  • Urbanization and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Growth in Developing Regions
    The social and economic systems of any country are influenced by a range of factors. As the global population grows in developing nations, it has become essential to examine the effects of urbanization. Urbanization and Its Impact on Socio-Economic Growth in Developing Regions is a pivotal reference source for the latest research findings on the role of urban growth on the soci...
    Disponible

    271,29 €

  • The African Conundrum
    The African conundrum... is rooted out of the historical, philosophical and cultural bastardisation, imbalances and inequalities which many post-colonial African governments have always sought to address, though with varying degrees of success, since the 1960s. Lamentably, this African conundrum is rarely examined in a systematic manner that takes into account the geopolitical ...
    Disponible

    59,34 €

  • Flows and Practices
    For the past two decades, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has been the dominant paradigm in water resources. This book explores how ideas of IWRM are being translated and adapted in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Grounded in social science theory and research, it highlights the importance of politics, history and culture in shaping water m...
    Disponible

    59,14 €

  • Gandhi Today
    Mark Shepard
    What became of the Gandhian tradition in India following the death of Mahatma Gandhi? Did it quietly die away? Or were there still Indians who believed in his philosophy and methods, committed to continuing his work? These were the questions that sent independent journalist Mark Shepard to India in 1978–79. There he found that the tradition begun by Gandhi was very much alive, ...
    Disponible

    19,61 €

  • Election Management Bodies in Southern Africa
    ECF-SADC / OSISA
    Over the past two decades, Southern African countries have entrenched the use of elections as the only means and medium for electing governments and representative institutions in governance. Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) are central to the delivery and quality of elections. These institutions are mandated to manage most or all aspects of the electoral process. Informed by...
    Disponible

    59,24 €

  • Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Agencies in Southern Africa
    OSISA
    With reportedly over USD100 billion lost annually through graft and illicit practices, combatting corruption in Africa has been challenging. However, laws and policies at the continental, regional and national levels have been promulgated and enacted by African leaders. These initiatives have included the establishment of anti-corruption agencies mandated to tackle graft at nat...
    Disponible

    59,14 €

  • Harnessing Migration for Inclusive Growth and Development in Southern Africa
    Belinda Dodson / Daniel Tevera / Jonathan Crush
    The primary goal of this study is to present the results of a comprehensive scope of key opportunities and challenges for harnessing migration for inclusive growth and development at the regional level in Southern Africa. The main objectives were as follows: Provide an overview of regional migration stocks and flows identifying regional trends, drivers and impacts from existing...
    Disponible

    38,97 €

  • Africa at the Crossroads
    Artwell Nhemachena / Munyaradzi Mawere
    This volume interrogates and theorises various forms of fundamentalism and fetishism that impinge on Africa and the African people. The book valiantly rethinks and unpacks these forms of fundamentalisms and fetishisms, offering in the process critical vistas for students, scholars and activists on matters of decoloniality and transformation. By meticulously and painstakingly un...
    Disponible

    55,78 €

  • Evidence, Ethos and Experiment
    Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates abou...
    Disponible

    49,85 €

  • Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia
    Drug Law Reform in East and Southeast Asia is a multi-author look at drugs in East and Southeast Asia, on drug policy, patterns and trends, local problems, human rights abuses, treatment prospects, and potential reforms. From the history of drugs in Asia, the book examines recent trends in illicit drugs, especially the present enormous amphetamine problems. It addresses recent ...
    Disponible

    70,64 €

  • eGovernment Management for Developing Countries
    Ahmed Imran / Shirley Gregor / Tim Turner
    This book builds on the authors' extensive experience and research and provides valuable insights into the practical implementation of e-government. It focuses on the developing world where the effective implementation of e-government remains a struggle, often because of the absence of adequate guidance. With a thorough curriculum design and a sound education pedagogy, the ...
    Disponible

    55,70 €

  • Witchcraft as a Social Diagnosis
    Elias Bongmba / Rice University Elias Bongmba / Richter / Roxane Richter / Thomas Flowers
    This book examines medical outreach in the condemned witches’ village of Gnani in Ghana, focusing on clashes between traditional beliefs, religious tenets, and contemporary medical science. It analyzes questions of stigmatization to explore how disease, injury, and illness relate to social condition and the dialogue surrounding witchcraft. ...
    Disponible

    129,31 €

  • Securing Government Information and Data in Developing Countries
    Saleem Zoughbi
    The ongoing growth of information and communication technology is a high priority for any developing country. These advances help progress with different sectors of socio-economic development within these countries, and strengthens our global economy as a whole. Securing Government Information and Data in Developing Countries provides an informative examination of the latest st...
    Disponible

    210,12 €

  • Asia-Pacific Development Journal, Vol. 23, No.1, June 2016
    Economic and Social Commission for Asia
    The Asia-Pacific Development Journal (APDJ) is published twice a year by the Macroeconomic Policy and Financing for Development Division of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. The primary objective of the APDJ is to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge, experience, ideas, information and data on all aspects of economic and soc...
    Disponible

    41,22 €

  • The Theory of Categorial Conversion
    Kofi Kissi Dompere
    The Theory of Categorial Conversion is advanced by Professor Kofi Kissi Dompere as mathematical-philosophical and game-theoretic foundations to solve the problem of socio-natural transformation as governed by some internal process in relation to Marx, Schumpeter and Nkrumah. Dompere’ s methodology is  based on the Africentric principles of opposites made up of actual-potential ...
    Disponible

    40,55 €

  • Underdevelopment, Development and the Future of Africa
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    In view of the resilience of Africa’s underdevelopment, what do Africans make of their determined aspirations for development? The continent of Africa has constantly drawn global attention, most especially for both human and natural evils. Underdevelopment, it appears, is one of the most eminent threatening evils. It has plunged and promises to maintain the majority of Africa i...
    Disponible

    69,63 €

  • Informal Entrepreneurship and Cross-Border Trade between Zimbabwe and South Africa
    Abel Chikanda / Godfrey Tawodzera
    Zimbabwe has witnessed the rapid expansion of informal cross-border trading (ICBT) with neighbouring countries over the past two decades. Beginning in the mid-1990s when the country embarked on its Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), a large number of people were forced into informal employment through worsening economic conditions and the decline in formal sector ...
    Disponible

    35,38 €

  • Outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Emerging Market Economies
    The role of foreign direct investment initiatives is pivotal to effective enterprise development. This is particularly vital to emerging economies that are building their presence in international business markets. Outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Emerging Market Economies is a comprehensive source of academic material on the progressive impact of investment opportuni...
    Disponible

    275,84 €

  • Handbook of Research on Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries
    Smaller companies are abundant in the business realm and outnumber large companies by a wide margin. Understanding the inner workings of small businesses offers benefits to the consumers and the economy. The Handbook of Research on Small and Medium Enterprises in Developing Countries is an essential handbook for the latest research on the intentions, performance, and applicatio...
    Disponible

    334,85 €

  • World Economic Situation and Prospects 2017
    Department of Economic and Social Affair
    This publication notes that although a modest global recovery is projected for 2017-18, the world economy has not yet emerged from the period of slow growth, characterised by weak investment, dwindling trade and flagging productivity growth. The report highlights that there is a need to redouble efforts to bring the global economy back on a stronger and more inclusive growth pa...
    Disponible

    93,18 €

  • Theorising Development in Africa
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    How come Africa is so underdeveloped when it is one of the richest continents on earth? The present volume is an attempt to theorise Africa’s [under-]development with a view to providing a sustainable, enduring framework of operations that will arrest the predicament of the continent while taking it forward from its current passivity. The volume rethinks and re-imagines a numbe...
    Disponible

    43,48 €

  • Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean 2016
    Economic Commission for Latin America an
    Published since 1948, This is the sixty-eighth edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, which corresponds to the year 2016, consists of three parts. Part I outlines the region's economic performance in 2015 and analyses trends in the first half of 2016, as well as the outlook for the rest of the year. It examines the external and internal factors influ...
    Disponible

    121,34 €


Primera 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Última