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Social Policy in a Developing World
Edited by Rebecca Surender, Robert Walker
This volume provides a critical analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing social protection systems in the global south, and examines current strategies for addressing poverty and welfare needs in the region. In particular, the...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Environmental Entrepreneurship
Laura E. Huggins
In this innovative book, Laura E. Huggins finds path breaking entrepreneurial solutions to difficult environmental challenges in some of the world’s poorest areas. The approaches entrepreneurs are taking to these challenges involve esta...eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Local Societies and Rural Development
Edited by Shinichi Shigetomi, Ikuko Okamoto
The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, who are economically and politically weak as individuals, can only participate in develop...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Research on Development and Religion
Edited by Matthew Clarke
With eighty percent of the world’s population professing religious faith, religious belief is a common human characteristic. This fascinating and highly unique Handbook brings together state-of-the-art research on incorporating religion ...eBook:Find out more$67.96
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Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States
Edited by Graham K. Brown, Arnim Langer
The Elgar Handbook of Civil War and Fragile States brings together contributions from a multidisciplinary group of internationally renowned scholars on such important issues as the causes of violent conflicts and state fragility, the cha...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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The International Handbook on Social Innovation
Edited by Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum, Abid Mehmood, Abdelillah Hamdouch
The contributors provide an overview of theoretical perspectives, methodologies and instructive experiences from all continents, as well as implications for collective action and policy. They argue strongly for social innovation as a key...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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Innovation and Inequality
Edited by Susan Cozzens, Dhanaraj Thakur
Inequality is one of the main features of globalization. Do emerging technologies, as they spread around the world, contribute to more inequality or less? This unique interdisciplinary text examines the relationships between emerging tec...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Economic and Political Aftermath of the Arab Spring
Edited by Carlo Altomonte, Massimiliano Ferrara
The economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have always been characterized by economic volatility and social disparities. The recent ‘Arab Spring’ wave of protests has increased political uncertainty and instability i...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Good Government
Edited by Sören Holmberg, Bo Rothstein
In all societies, the quality of government institutions is of the utmost importance for the well-being of its citizens. Problems like high infant mortality, lack of access to safe water, unhappiness and poverty are not primarily caused ...eBook:Find out more$54.36
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Handbook of Rural Development
Edited by Gary Paul Green
Although most countries in the world are rapidly urbanizing, the majority of the global population – particularly the poor – continue to live in rural areas. This Handbook rejects the popular notion that urbanization should be universall...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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NGOs, Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution
Daniela Irrera
Daniela Irrera explores the relationship between non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organisations (IGOs). The author reviews the issue of NGOs’ participation in the decision-making processes of intergovernmental...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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States, Banks and Crisis
Thomas Marois
Thomas Marois’ groundbreaking interpretation of banking and development in Mexico and Turkey builds on a Marxian-inspired framework premised on understanding states and banks as social relationships alongside crisis and labor as vital to...eBook:Find out more$48.76
