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  • The Handbook of Displacement The Handbook of Displacement
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    The Handbook of Displacement

    This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how displacement is lived, governed, and mediated as an unfolding and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and...
    $375.00

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  • Democratization and Memories of Violence Democratization and Memories of Violence
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    Democratization and Memories of Violence

    This book argues that violence-affected communities use memory-based narratives in order to shame states into cooperating with claims for cultural rights protections. Shaming and claiming is a social...
    $385.00

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  • Global Management, Local Resistances Global Management, Local Resistances
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    Global Management, Local Resistances

    This book originates from a research project involving extensive collection and analysis of primary and secondary materials (scholarly literature, statistical data, and interviews with key actors) on...
    $87.00

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  • Gendering Globalization on the Ground Gendering Globalization on the Ground
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    Gendering Globalization on the Ground

    How has globalization worked for women working on the frontlines of neoliberalism on the Mexico-US border? This critical comparison of socially similar women, working either in export production...
    $131.00

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  • Developing Minds Developing Minds
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    Developing Minds

    Development policy makers and practitioners are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to target 'development' interventions and the psychological domain is now a specific frontier of...
    $118.00

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  • Education, Gender and Development Education, Gender and Development
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    Education, Gender and Development

    This book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls' and women's education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement, the book...
    $121.00

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  • Scaling Impact Scaling Impact
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    Scaling Impact

    Scaling Impact introduces a new and practical approach to scaling the positive impacts of research and innovation. Inspired by leading scientific and entrepreneurial innovators this book presents a...
    $373.00

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  • Informal Urban Street Markets Informal Urban Street Markets
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    Informal Urban Street Markets

    Through an international range of research, this volume examines how informal urban street markets facilitate the informal and formal economy not merely in terms of the traditional concerns of labor...
    $131.00

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  • The Project in International Development The Project in International Development
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    The Project in International Development

    The project has become fundamental to international development and humanitarian practice, playing a key role in defining objectives, funding streams and ultimately determining what success looks...
    $359.00

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  • Sharing the Sovereign Sharing the Sovereign
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    Sharing the Sovereign

    This book explains how recognition theory contributes to non-colonial and enduring political relationships between Indigenous nations and the state. It refers to Indigenous Australian arguments for a...
    $227.00

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  • Understanding Chinese GDP Understanding Chinese GDP
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    Understanding Chinese GDP

    This book provides in-depth analyses on accounting methods of GDP, statistic calibers and comparative perspectives on Chinese GDP. Beginning with an exploration of international comparisons of GDP,...
    $184.00

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  • Europe-Central Asia Relations Europe-Central Asia Relations
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    Europe-Central Asia Relations

    This book addresses the current state of economic and political development within Central Asia and the importance of European countries and organizations as international actors and supranational...
    $216.00

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  • Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
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    Rice Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

    This open access book seeks effective strategy to realize a rice Green Revolution in sub-Saharan Africa based on more than ten years of research team's inquiries into determinants and consequences of...
    $92.00

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  • Sustainable Qatar Sustainable Qatar
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    Sustainable Qatar

    This open access book provides a topical overview of the key sustainability issues in Qatar, focusing on environmental sustainability from a socio-political perspective. The transition to a...
    $92.00

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  • Reimagining Prosperity Reimagining Prosperity
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    Reimagining Prosperity

    This book explores the second-order effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic development in India. The chapters in this volume provide theoretical perspectives and empirical insights...
    $308.00

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  • Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
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    Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

    This open access book shows how the adoption of global justice, such as eradication of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), has given rise to controversy, resistance, and transformation at the...
    $92.00

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  • Periphery and Small Ones Matter Periphery and Small Ones Matter
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    Periphery and Small Ones Matter

    This open access book analyzes the dualism and inequality insofar as how it is manifested in interregional disparity and small enterprises. Using the case of Indonesia, the author considers how the...
    $92.00

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  • China's Miracle in Foreign Trade China's Miracle in Foreign Trade
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    China's Miracle in Foreign Trade

    This book mainly focuses on the miracle of China's foreign trade in the past 40 years from five perspectives: first, it briefly reviews the import substitution strategy China adopted before its...
    $285.00

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  • Large Countries' Development Path Large Countries' Development Path
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    Large Countries' Development Path

    This book aims to propose a unique analytical framework to find out the general successful experience for large developing countries, which are defined with two main physical characters of large...
    $122.00

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  • COVID in the Islands COVID in the Islands
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    COVID in the Islands

    This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in two contrasting island regions - the Caribbean and the Pacific - and in several islands and island states...
    $249.00

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  • Global Pandemic and Human Security Global Pandemic and Human Security
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    Global Pandemic and Human Security

    This book highlights how the human security aspect has been affected by the global pandemic, based on the specific case study, field data, and evidence. COVID-19 has exemplified that the pandemic is...
    $238.00

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  • Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development
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    Covid-19 Pandemic and Economic Development

    This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the pre-Covid-19 and post-Covid-19 situation and public policy measures needed to revive the economy in the light of the recent initiatives by the state...
    $268.00

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  • Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific
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    Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific

    This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk...
    $298.00

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  • Rebalancing Asia Rebalancing Asia
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    Rebalancing Asia

    This book explores the struggle between China and the United States to expand their influence in Asia through economic assistance and defensive alliances. It brings together the diverse viewpoints of...
    $270.00

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  • Becoming Middle Class Becoming Middle Class
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    Becoming Middle Class

    This book is an ethnography of urban-to-urban migration and its role in middle-class formation in Ethiopia. Through an examination of the intersections and tensions between physical movement and...
    $238.00

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  • State on Board! State on Board!
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    State on Board!

    Research in this book focuses on the strategic behaviour of the State as a shareholder in businesses, and the implications it has for the other shareholder(s) and business performance. It...
    $216.00

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  • Governing Enterprises in China Governing Enterprises in China
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    Governing Enterprises in China

    This book examines the nature of the marketization of corporate boards following the introduction of the split share reform, corporate board and shareholder relations, corporate performance, and...
    $268.00

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  • COVID-19 and Social Protection COVID-19 and Social Protection
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    COVID-19 and Social Protection

    This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response to the global impact of COVID-19. The crisis of the capitalist economy due to border...
    $216.00

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  • Introduction to Algorithmic Government Introduction to Algorithmic Government
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    Introduction to Algorithmic Government

    The world is changing at a fast pace, so is the Government and Governance style. Humans are bound to go for Algorithmic strategies rather than manual or electronic ones in different domains. This...
    $92.00

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  • Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy
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    Kazakhstan and the Soviet Legacy

    This book examines Kazakhstan's struggle to distance itself from its Soviet past over 25 years after its independence. To a very large extent, the affirmation of its sovereignty and a unique...
    $238.00

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  • China's New Strategic Layout China's New Strategic Layout
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    China's New Strategic Layout

    This book, based on the Chinese dream and its basic principles, global significance, path of implementation and practical requirements, systemically explains China's Four-Pronged Comprehensive...
    $92.00

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  • Economic Policy in a Liberalising Economy Economic Policy in a Liberalising Economy
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    Economic Policy in a Liberalising Economy

    This book follows up on the author's popular previous volume on Indian development planning and policy, published under the UNU WIDER series in development economics. It first introduces an...
    $116.00

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