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A Research Agenda for Financial Inclusion and Microfinance
Edited by Marek Hudon, Marc Labie, Ariane Szafarz
How can financial services, such as credit, deposit accounts, financial transfers, and insurance be provided to people in need? This challenging and complex issue has been a topic of interest for the international aid community for decad...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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China–North Korea Relations
Edited by Catherine Jones, Sarah Teitt
Developing a new approach to exploring security relations between China and North Korea, this timely book examines China’s contradictory statements and actions through the lens of developmental peace. It highlights the differences betwee...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Inequality, Social Protection and Social Justice
James Midgley
This thought-provoking book examines the role of social protection in reducing inequality and enhancing social justice. It assesses social protection’s impact on inequality in different parts of the world and shows that if carefully desi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Towards Collaborative Research in International Development
John Spriggs, Barbara Chambers, Carole Kayrooz
The new millennium has witnessed profound changes to the way donor countries are approaching international development – with the emphasis now on collaborative, people-centred development. This timely book explores how research and resea...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Political Economy of African Regionalisms
Wil Hout, M. A.M. Salih
This book analyses the main factors influencing the political economy of Africa’s asymmetrical regionalism, focusing on regional and sub-regional trade, investment, movement of people, goods and services. It pays particular attention to ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Social Policy in the Middle East and North Africa
Edited by Rana Jawad, Nicola Jones, Mahmood Messkoub
This book presents a state of the art in the developing field of social policy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It offers an up-to-date conceptual analysis of social policy programmes and discourses in the MENA region b...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality
Edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Rolph van der Hoeven
This timely book documents and analyses the seriousness of growing national inequality in different regions around the world. It argues that the treatment of inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is wholly insufficient d...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Multinationals, Local Capacity Building and Development
Xiaolan Fu, Owusu Essegbey, Godfred K. Frempong
Drawing on original research, Multinationals, Local Capacity Building and Development presents an extensive analysis of MNEs in Africa, taking Ghana as a case study, and broaching subject matter previously unaddressed in the field. Looki...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Enforcing Cybersecurity in Developing and Emerging Economies
Zeinab Karake, Rana A. Shalhoub, Huda Ayas
This unique, innovative examination of cyberspace policies and strategies and their relation to cyber laws and regulations in developing and emerging economies uses economic, political, and social perspectives as a vehicle for analysis. ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Failure to Protect
Timo Kivimäki
Timo Kivimaki investigates the reasons behind, and consequences of, military operations by Western powers. It focuses on those interventions aimed at protecting civilians from terror, dictators and criminals in fragile states. In doing s...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Poverty and Entrepreneurship in Developed Economies
Michael H. Morris, Susana C. Santos, Xaver Neumeyer
While extensively explored as a solution to poverty at the base of the pyramid, this is the first in-depth examination of entrepreneurship and the poor within advanced economies. The authors explore the underlying nature of poverty and d...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Varieties of Capital Cities
David Kaufmann
The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power...eBook:Find out more$40.00