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The State, Technology and Industrialization in Africa

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The New Economy in Development

List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Foreword Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Charting a New Development Trajectory?; Anthony P. D'Costa Theoretical and...

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$92.00

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Managing Development in a Global Context

Managing Development in a Global Context examines the complex relationship between management, development and globalization from a multidimensional perspective. Key authors in the field explore the...

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Food Security, Safety Nets and Social Protection in Ethiopia

Hunger and food shortages have been endemic in rural Ethiopia for countless generations; nevertheless, it was not until the mid-1970s, following the fall of the imperial regime and its replacement by...

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$215.00

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Participatory Rural Appraisal Approaches

Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) is a developmental method that has enabled many development organizations overcome the challenge of understanding and identifying the scope of local needs in which...

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$87.00

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Challenging the Rulers. A Leadership Model for Good Governance

Challenging The Rulers: A Leadership Model for Good Governance brings to the fore the issue of leadership in developing countries like Kenya. Citing specific examples, it singles out bad leadership...

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$145.00

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Invited but not (always) willing to go

Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1, University of Vienna (International Development Studies), course: Refugee...

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Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: Merit, University of Birmingham, course: International Development, language:...

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States of Vulnerability

The 'brain drain', or skills emigration, is a major policy and research issues at national, regional and continental levels in Africa, trends having intensified in the 1980s and 1990s. The prevailing...

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Youth In South Africa

South Africa is characterised by a youthful population, and the challenges and possibilities that characterise the young generation are both warning signs and beacons of hope for a nation founded on...

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$155.00

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Migration, Remittances and Development in Southern Africa

Migrant remittances are a focus of attention worldwide, with debates raging on their impact on poverty alleviation. Less well known is that over a third of remittances to underdeveloped countries...

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Migration and Development in Mozambique

Despite Mozambique's relatively high economic growth rate, there has been little absorption of unskilled workers. The urban informal sector has become unattractive to the rural poor, as competition...

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Africa in China's Global Strategy

China, in the past five years, has developed a proactive global policy and is emerging as a new global power with particular focus on developing countries in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin...

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Gulf Ideological Dynamics

The Gulf ideological system is a set of interconnected beliefs and principles governing the region's political, economic, social, and cultural spheres. It combines various ideologies, including...

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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...

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Indigenous Knowledges and the Sustainable Development Agenda

This book discusses the vital importance of including indigenous knowledges in the sustainable development agenda. In the wake of colonialism and imperialism, dialogue between indigenous knowledges...

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$121.00

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COVID-19 and Foreign Aid

This book provides a timely, critical, and thought-provoking analysis of the implications of the disruption of COVID-19 to the foreign aid and development system, and the extent to which the system...

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$97.00

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An Alternative Development Agenda for India

This book provides a revamped, transformative, and fiscally sustainable developmental agenda for India to radically improve the well-being and livelihoods of its citizens. Grounded in a 'people...

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$333.00

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Sustainable Development in Post-Pandemic Africa

With both domestic and external financing expected to dry up in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, this book argues that there is a need for fresh ideas and new strategies for achieving sustainable...

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$351.00

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Water Current Turbines

This handbook describes the development and testing of the water current turbine as a simple and inexpensive means of lifting water for irrigation purposes. With detailed technical information on the...

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$84.00

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Small Business Promotion

A collection of 28 case-studies from 17 countries, this book describes failures as well as successes, and provides stimulating material for students, teachers, trainers and business people themselves.

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$70.00

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Septic Tanks and Aquaprivies from Ferrocement

This book describes the potential of ferrocement as a construction material; gives details of how septic tanks and aquaprivy waste treatment and soil disposal units are designed and constructed; and...

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$54.00

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Small-scale Irrigation

This excellent, clearly illustrated book has been written for those working with farmers on development and extension in rural areas who do not have much access to the technical know-how needed for...

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$82.00

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Selected Issues In Agricultural Policy Analysis With Special Reference To East Africa

This book highlights some of the main areas of debate around the subject of agricultural policy in Eastern Africa. Its major aim is to introduce the reader to different issues of economic and social...

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Politics in The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau

This book explores how precolonial political traditions and practices shape modern-day politics in The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.The precolonial Kaabu empire dominated the region for over 300 years,...

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$137.00

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Leadership and Organisational Culture in Development

This book uses organisational theory to explore how power and leadership operate in development organisations in different contexts and at different levels.Culture as a tool for enacting change is of...

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$373.00

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Non-State Social Protection Actors and Services in Africa

For millions of Africans, the social situation is dire. Over half of the population of Sub-Sahara Africa do not have access to improved sanitation facilities, and about a quarter are undernourished...

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$116.00

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Moral Agency and the Politics of Responsibility

This book investigates how actors in complex governance arrangements assign and negotiate responsibilities to order the world.

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$142.00

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Why Does Development Fail in Resource Rich Economies

There has been a lot of interest within the scientific and policy communities in the 'resource curse'; that is, the tendency of mineral rich economies to turn into development failures. Yet, after...

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$116.00

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Fragility, Aid, and State-building

Fragile states pose major development and security challenges. Considerable international resources are therefore devoted to state-building and institutional strengthening in fragile states, with...

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Urban Food Marketing and Third World Rural Development

Originally published in 1982. This book explores the nature of food marketing in Third World countries. Economic development invariably involves a transition from the traditional subsistence and/or...

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American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers

This book brings together scholars from international relations, economics, history, sociology and postcolonial studies to debate the future of US leadership in the international system.

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$137.00

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Integrating Sustainable Development in International Investment Law

This book explores the challenges and possible solutions to make international investment law more compatible with sustainable development.

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$137.00

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Turning the Tide on Poverty

This book highlights the experiences of 14 high poverty communities in the rural South that accepted the invitation to be part of the Turning the Tide on Poverty (Tide) initiative. While history...

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$116.00

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Democracy and Climate Change

This book demonstrates that overall stronger democratic principles and democratic qualities tend to correlate with improved climate performance. Beginning by outlining a general concept of democratic...

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An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights

From a neo-liberal, neo-classical paradigm, secure, formal and private property rights are crucial to fostering sustained development. Institutions that fail to respond to shifting socio-economic...

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Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions 'from Below'

When the 2007-2008 food and financial crises triggered a global wave of land grabbing, scholars, activists and policy practitioners assumed that this would be met with massive peasant resistance. As...

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Development Assistance for Peacebuilding

Development assistance to fragile states and conflict-affected areas can be a core component of peacebuilding, providing support for the restoration of government functions, delivery of basic...

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Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods

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Permanent Emergency Welfare Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa

This book examines the relationship between development economics, social protection and democratization in the specific context of Sub-Saharan Africa. Moving existing theories of transformation into...

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Globalization and Inequality in Emerging Societies

This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and...

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Developmental Politics in Transition

A major review of New Labour's foreign policy from leading experts. This book reimagines policy thinking, away from Churchill's idea of Britain as at the intersection of 'three circles' (the English...

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$92.00

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Poverty in Haiti

Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti. It presents an overview of the country's economic history, and seeks new prospects...

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The Effectiveness of E-Voucher on Agriculture in Zambia. The Case of Kafue

Project Report from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 2,0(B), University of Zambia (UNZA), course: RESEARCH METHODS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES,...

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Politics Transformed

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) became Latin America's first democratically elected socialist leaders since Salvador Allende on October 27, 2002. He achieved nearly 62 per cent of the vote, to...

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Methods for Community Participation

This book combines the concept, practice and application of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) in a comprehensive manner. The author views PRA as a means of opening up new ways of approaching...

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Managing Developmental Civil Society Organizations

Managing Developmental Civil Society Organizations highlights the alternative vision that CSOs bring to their countries’ problems and how this can inspire effective service provision and advocacy, as...

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$87.00

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On Perpetual Peace

Dieter Senghaas today is the world's leading figure in the field of conflict research, conflict management research, and the study of the prerequisites of lasting peace. The fact that virulent...

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