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![Handbook on Rural–Urban Linkages in the Global South]()
Handbook on Rural–Urban Linkages in the Global South
Edited by Cecilia Tacoli, Jytte Agergaard, Manja Hoppe Andreasen, Donald Brown
This Handbook offers a comprehensive review of how, in rapidly urbanizing low- and middle-income countries, the links between rural and urban areas, people and enterprises are becoming increasingly intense and complex. With a focus on ho... -
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Transforming Development in Education
Edited by Moira V. Faul
In this thought-provoking book, expert contributors challenge dominant global development narratives, undertaking an academic critique of contemporary coloniality in education and providing constructive ways towards more equal and sustai... -
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Handbook for Qualitative Research in Emerging Markets
Edited by Helena Barnard
This Handbook uses first-person narratives from a diverse array of leading scholars to capture the complexity of qualitative research in emerging markets. It showcases the value of interdisciplinary research in under-theorised contexts a... -
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![The Elgar Companion to Health and the Sustainable Development Goals]()
The Elgar Companion to Health and the Sustainable Development Goals
Edited by Susannah H. Mayhew, Michael Hammer
This Companion explores the tension between the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the realities of health and healthcare in a volatile and uncertain world wracked by climate change and conflict. Championing health a... -
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![The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals]()
The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals
Edited by Madelaine Moore, Christoph Scherrer, Marcel van der Linden
The Elgar Companion to Decent Work and the Sustainable Development Goals is an essential reference for understanding the role of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and its promotion of fair conditions, rights at work and employm... -
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Nile Basin Politics
Edited by Steven C. Roach, Derrick K. Hudson, Kaleb Demerew
This comprehensive book analyses the legal, political, and cultural dynamics of the Nile Basin water regime. Nile Basin Politics provides a thorough examination of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam''s political impact on Nile Basin cou... -
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Advanced Introduction to Critical Global Development
Uma Kothari, Elise Klein
This stimulating and accessible Advanced Introduction critically engages with dominant, modernist and ahistorical narratives of development, foregrounding the overlooked dissonant discourses that are largely written out of mainstream dev...eBook:Find out more$19.96
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Advanced Introduction to Resilience
Fikret Berkes
Providing a concise overview of resilience in the context of unprecedented global environmental change, this Advanced Introduction addresses the intertwined systems of people and nature. It explores ecological resilience, incorporating s...eBook:Find out more$25.16
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Advanced Introduction to Financial Inclusion
Robert Lensink, Calumn Hamilton, Charles Adjasi
Taking a detailed tour through the emerging economic field of financial inclusion, this timely book charts the subtle conceptual shifts that gave rise to the focus on inclusivity in development finance, and provides an overview of key co...eBook:Find out more$25.96
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Advanced Introduction to Social Protection
James Midgley
Written by James Midgley, a leading authority on international social policy and social development, this Advanced Introduction offers a concise, readable and wide-ranging overview of how protection schemes such as social assistance, soc...eBook:Find out more$23.16
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Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation
Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum
Social innovation (SI) has, in the last decade or so, become an important idea and concept in policy, practice and scholarship surrounding human development. It is often seen as an antidote to narrowly defined technological and market-or...eBook:Find out more$23.16
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Biotechnology, Agriculture and Development
Edited by Peter W.B. Phillips, David Castle, Stuart J. Smyth
Recent innovations in agriculture and food technologies have brought benefits to many countries, particularly in developing regions, but information about the extent of these has often been sparse. This collection assembles the best pape...
