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  • Development with Women Development with Women
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    Development with Women

    These papers taken from the journal Development in Practice cover topics as diverse as mainstreaming versus specialization, methodologies for introducing gender analysis into planning and evaluation,...
    $57.00

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  • Debating and Defining Borders Debating and Defining Borders
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    Debating and Defining Borders

    This book brings together insights from border scholars and philosophers to ask how we are to define and understand concepts of borders today. Borders have a defining role in contemporary societies...
    $373.00

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  • Things Are Different in Africa Things Are Different in Africa
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    Things Are Different in Africa

    Most Americans have never set foot on the African continent and have no true inkling of what day-to-day survival is like in that part of the world.Things Are Different in Africa is a true account of...
    $31.00

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  • Corruption in Argentina Corruption in Argentina
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    Corruption in Argentina

    The book provides an institutional, historical, and sectorial analysis of Argentina's structural corruption. Looking back over the last 200 years, the book demonstrates that Argentina has...
    $373.00

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  • Managing Global Health Security Managing Global Health Security
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    Managing Global Health Security

    Drawing on insights from international organization and securitization theory, the author investigates the World Health Organization and how its approach to global health security has changed and...
    $216.00

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  • Children and the Capability Approach Children and the Capability Approach
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    Children and the Capability Approach

    Exploring a wide variety of case studies and developmental issues from a capability perspective, this book is an original contribution to both development and children's studies that raises a strong...
    $227.00

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  • Children and Armed Conflict Children and Armed Conflict
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    Children and Armed Conflict

    Exploring the experiences of children encountering war and armed conflict, this book draws upon history, ethnography, sociology, literature, media studies, psychology, public policy, and other...
    $92.00

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  • Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest
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    Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest

    Social protection is fast becoming a key theme in development policy. This book, now in paperback, examines the political processes shaping social protection policies; compares key conceptual...
    $285.00

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  • Social Movements in the Global South Social Movements in the Global South
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    Social Movements in the Global South

    Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This...
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  • Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict
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    Horizontal Inequalities and Conflict

    Violent conflict in multiethnic societies in the developing world is a pre-eminent problem of the twenty-first century. Drawing on original quantitative and qualitative research, this book shows that...
    $220.00

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  • China's Automotive Modernization China's Automotive Modernization
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    China's Automotive Modernization

    As a window for understanding the relationship between globalization and the state's pursuit of national industrial development, this book examines how and why the Chinese government succeeded in...
    $227.00

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  • Reflexivity and Development Economics Reflexivity and Development Economics
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    Reflexivity and Development Economics

    Acknowledgements Contents List of Tables and Figures Introduction PART I Beyond Modernism and Postmodernism Theories of Reflexivity Reflexivity and Development Economics PART II Introduction to the...
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  • Poverty Reduction and Beyond Poverty Reduction and Beyond
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    Poverty Reduction and Beyond

    This book highlights strategies for poverty reduction in developing countries, with emphasis on the power of the market mechanism and vigor of the private sector, focusing ODA on a few longer term...
    $184.00

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  • Development Aid Development Aid
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    Development Aid

    Foreword; A.Shorrocks Development Aid: Expectations, Effectiveness and Allocation; G.Mavrotas & M.McGillivray Decentralizing Aid with Interested Parties; G.Epstein & I.Gang Blind Spots on the Map of...
    $220.00

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  • Unpaid Work and the Economy Unpaid Work and the Economy
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    Unpaid Work and the Economy

    Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Preface Unpaid Work and the Economy Understanding Poverty: Insights Emerging from the Time-Use of the Poor Gender...
    $294.00

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  • Development Aid in Russia Development Aid in Russia
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    Development Aid in Russia

    List of Maps and Tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue Introduction PART I: BACKGROUND The Russian Context The EU TEMPUS TACIS Programme The UK Know How Fund and SEPS...
    $122.00

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  • Cities in Contemporary Africa Cities in Contemporary Africa
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    Cities in Contemporary Africa

    This book offers a broad range of scholarly interpretations of the evolving forms, the changing dynamics, and the unexpected surprises that characterize contemporary African cities. It wrestles with...
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  • Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism
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    Zambia, Mining, and Neoliberalism

    This book paints a vivid picture of Zambia's experience riding the copper price rollercoaster. It brings together the best of recent research on Zambia's mining industry from eminent scholars in...
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  • French Caribbeans in Africa French Caribbeans in Africa
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    French Caribbeans in Africa

    This is the first book-length study of the French Caribbean presence in Africa, and serves as a unique contribution to the field of African Diaspora and Colonial studies. By using administrative...
    $92.00

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  • AIDS Policy in Uganda AIDS Policy in Uganda
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    AIDS Policy in Uganda

    This book examines diplomatic influence and collective decision-making within the transatlantic security regime, focusing on the four major member states of NATO: France, Germany, the UK, and the...
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  • Calais and its Border Politics Calais and its Border Politics
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    Calais and its Border Politics

    Calais has a long history of transient refugee settlements and is often narrated through the endeavour to 'sanitize' it by both the English and the French in their policy and media discourses. Calais...
    $149.00

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  • Services for the Urban Poor Services for the Urban Poor
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    Services for the Urban Poor

    Working with Partners is aimed primarily at policymakers but is also of direct relevance to urban engineers and planners. It reviews the roles of different stakeholders in service provision,...
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  • Remittances and Financial Inclusion Remittances and Financial Inclusion
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    Remittances and Financial Inclusion

    This book comprehensively explores the messy and contested relationship between everyday practices of remittance sending and receiving, processes of market making, and operations of micro- and global...
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  • Contested States in World Politics Contested States in World Politics
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    Contested States in World Politics

    This book investigates a phenomenon in world politics that is largely overlooked by scholars, namely entities lacking international recognition of their status as independent states. It includes case...
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  • Raging Grace
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    Raging Grace

    When your body-mind is in upheaval, or is deemed troublesome, how do you find a way forward? In the shadow of an ecological and social crisis, whose voices do we need to pay attention to? The poems,...
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  • Situating Women Situating Women
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    Situating Women

    Since the time of decolonisation in Fiji, women's organisations have navigated a complex political terrain. While they have stayed true to the aim of advancing women’s status, their work has been...
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  • Kastom, property and ideology
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    Kastom, property and ideology

    The relationship between customary land tenure and 'modern' forms of landed property has been a major political issue in the ‘Spearhead’ states of Melanesia since the late colonial period, and is...
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  • NGOs and Political Change NGOs and Political Change
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    NGOs and Political Change

    The Australian Council for International Development is the peak body of Australian international development NGOs. This book explores ACFID's history since its founding in 1965, drawing on current...
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  • Islands of Turmoil Islands of Turmoil
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    Islands of Turmoil

    "It is not so much whether things are not as bad as they ought to be or could have been. It is, rather, whether things could have been much better".By rights, the island nation of Fiji should be...
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  • Politics of Preferential Development Politics of Preferential Development
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    Politics of Preferential Development

    The book is a critical examination of affirmative action, a form of preferential development often used to address the situation of disadvantaged groups. It uses a trans-global approach, as opposed...
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  • Securing Village Life Securing Village Life
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    Securing Village Life

    Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern idea of development. Australian officials...
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  • The Slow Plague
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    The Slow Plague

    Based on research by a leading geographer and specialist in diffusion theory, The Slow Plague discloses the geographic dimension of the AIDS pandemic. It provides a lucid description of the HIV, its...
    $128.00

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  • Popular Development
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    Popular Development

    This book provides a critical evaluation of development approaches, both mainstream and alternative. It considers how theories have been translated into policies, and the practical effects of these...
    $397.00

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  • Learning the City
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    Learning the City

    Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for...
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  • Debt and Development
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    Debt and Development

    In Debt and Development Stuart Corbridge offers an exciting new approach to the study of both debt and development, focusing on the international debt crisis of the 1980's and 1990's, and it's...
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