Development studies Books

In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of...

Through a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary approach, this introductory textbook focuses on critical issues of development, environment, and cultural conflicts facing most area of the non-Western world. Areas covered include China, Japan, Southeast...

Preface - Introduction - PART 1: SINGAPORE: A SUPER PRAGMATIC SOCIETY - Social Organization - Dynamic Political Economy - The Vision of the Founding Fathers and Political Institutions - Normative-Pragmatic Balance in a Meritocratic Society - Some General...

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - INTRODUCTION: NEEDS AND RESPONSES - The Nature of the Crisis and the Academic Response; V.Robinson - GETTING IN: POLICY AND PRACTICE - The Official View - The International Refugee Crisis: the Canadian...

This volume contains the proceedings of the Tenth Keynes Seminar held by Keynes College at the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1991. The purpose of the seminars is to examine for the student and the layman, as well as for the professional economist,...

Preface; H.Uchimura Introduction: Key Factors for Functioning Health Systems; H.Uchimura What is the Role of Public Finance in Health and How Should it be Fulfilled?: A Study of China; H.Uchimura Health Financing for Accessible Services: A Study of the...

This book offers a highly original approach to the analysis of globalization and global governance. Focusing on important global issues such as development, peace and scurity, the international authors present a true multicultural perspective on the...

Inequalities of wealth and income have a significant impact for the achievement of economic, political and human development in developing counties. This book argues that a high level of economic inequality undermines a country's growth potential,...

Understanding why inequality is so great and has persevered for centuries in a number of Latin American countries requires tools that go beyond economics. Inequality between indigenous groups and others has been particularly harsh and persistent. This...

This book assesses the key factors underlying such Australian-Japanese cooperation and those policy challenges that could impede it. Experts offer critical insights into why their two countries - traditionally the two key 'spokes' in the US bilateral...

Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals? Or do they co-opt and coerce groups to reinforce existing inequitable relations? In an innovative comparative study which breaks with tradition this book explores...

In the setting of twenty-first century globalization this volume focuses on emerging societies, rather than emerging markets or powers. Adopting a sociological perspective, each chapter focuses on development and social inequality in emerging societies,...

Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Explanation of Terms Used Glossary Types and Tactics Challenges and Questions Oxfam and its Global Campaign On Trade Case Study - Garment Workers in Sri Lanka Case Study - Trade and Agriculture in India Oxfam's Global...

This volume contains framework papers prepared for a collaborative research project on Reproductive Health, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Africa, an initiative of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Taken together, the chapters in...

Governance and Border Security in Africa addresses issues related to the strategic role of African borders in fulfilling regional aspirations in integration, security and development in the twenty-first century. The 23 chapters bring to the fore the...

Leading scholars of African languages address the many new ways that ICThave relevance to African languages for growth, development and sustenance;while at the same time showing the imperative of facing the future of theselanguages. The scholars present...

本书是小泉八云评论日本及日本人文章的选辑，从心理、哲学上剖析了日本人的内心世界，从日本人的内在和外表、历史和社会、心理学和伦理学各方面，描摹当时日本的国民特性。This book is Patrick Lafcadio Hearn's review selection of Japan and Japanese. It analyzes the inner world of the Japanese people from the psychology and philosophy. It...

本书分析了日本人的性格、信仰、风俗习惯，国家和社会的基础、生活根据等。又通过日本的历史和现实，推测日本的发展趋向，并有许多应验。Book analyzes the Japanese character, beliefs, customs, according to the foundation of the state and society, life, etc. By Japan's history and reality, presumably, the developmental...

此书运用文化人类学的方法，从日本人生活方式和典型事件入手，揭示日本人的矛盾性格，即日本文化的双重性（如爱美而黩武、尚礼而好斗、喜新而顽固、服从而不驯等），进而分析其原因。This book uses the method of cultural anthropology, starts from the perspective of the Japanese lifestyle and typical events, reveals the contradiction of Japanese...

Academic Paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, Aalborg University, language: English, abstract: Institutions, both the physical and the non-physical, guide the way in which we live. The...

Master's Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: Merit, University of Birmingham (International Development Department (IDD)- School of Public Policy), course: International...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Entwicklungspolitik, Note: 1,1, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Afghanistan stellt für das internationale Engagement eine besondere...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Politik - Internationale Politik - Thema: Entwicklungspolitik, Note: 1,3, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Politik der philippinischen Regierung scheint der Einsicht zu...

Long-term benefit receipt is a profound problem within the German minimum income scheme. Interventions increasingly focus on the individual beneficiary. The study shows that individualised policies are ridden with prerequisites mainly impeding long-term...

Within the context of the absence of effective state sovereignty and the presence of numerous armed struggles for power, Nande traders have managed to build and protect self-sustaining, prosperous, transnational economic enterprises in eastern Congo...

It has often been argued that the concept of human rights is an artefact of modern Western civilisation, that human rights in the South are privileges conferred. These approaches have taken little cognisance of the place accorded to the societal rights...

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...

Is it possible to work in international development without hurting those we are trying to help?Over the last few decades, evangelical Christians in the United States have moved from an open embrace of development work (e.g. short term missions, poverty...

This report is based on information gathered in participatory workshops held with children who have disabilities around South Africa: in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Limpopo, the Western Cape, and the North West. Emerging themes of the workshops were...

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...

This book presents findings from project R7786 Partnerships to improve access and quality of urban public transport for the urban poor carried out by the authors as part of the Knowledge and Research (KaR) programme of the Infrastructure and Urban...

Humanitarian crises are growing in length and complexity due to external destabilising pressures including conflict, COVID, and climate change. Marielle Snel and Nik Sorensen call for humanitarian and development WASH professionals to work together to...

This collection explores how VCD is implemented in the field, options for innovation in design, and the potential for VCD to achieve impact at scale. The book provides a timely critique of current approaches, pointing at options for more reflexive...

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...

This collection of essays examines the relatively new, and frequently overlooked, political phenomenon in post-colonial Africa of chieftaincy "re-inventing" itself. The traditional authority of chiefs has been one of Africa's missing voices who are now br

Today, with so much know how existing on this planet, there is still billions of people leaving in extreme poverty. Except for some countries often called Developed Countries, A large part of humanity live in poverty and governments of the majority of...

This collection focuses on the Millennium Development Goals from a gender perspective. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of this way of understanding and addressing poverty, and suggests ways of strengthening the approach by using key insights and...

This book explores some of the middle ground between such values-based approaches and the methods and techniques that the agencies adopt. The selection offers critical assessments of fashionable tools such as Participatory Rural Appraisal and Logical...

This book examines how gender inequalities impact on people's experiences of poverty and demonstrates the importance of integrating gender analysis into development initiatives. Covering a range of issues including macro-level neo-liberal restructuring,...

This book examines the operations of trafficking and other kinds of 'modern-day' slavery, from a gender perspective. It explores the relationships between gender, poverty, conflict and globalization that are driving today's slave trade. The authors...

Based on research commissioned by the World Bank, this books primary focus is on incorporating men in gender and development interventions at the grass roots level. It draws attention to some of the key problems that have arisen from male exclusion; as...