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  • Putting Children First

    New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa

    by Yisak Tafere, Elizabeth Ngutuku, Winnie C Sambu, Katharine Hall, Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi, Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo, Odimegwu Clifford, Tassew Woldehanna0, Stephen Devereux1, Julian May2, Coretta Jonah3, Nicola Hypher4, Luke Harman5, Kerina Zvobgo6, Oluwatosin Akomolafe7, Billow Hassan8, Stephen Mutiso9, Munshi Sulaiman0, Nikhit D’Sa1, Sarah Press2, Anna Du Vent3, Ahmed Farahat4, Gina Porter5, Kate Hampshire6, Alister Munthali7, Elsbeth Robson8, Sita Conklin9, Nicola Jones0, Umutoni Marie Francoise1, Bekele Tefera2, Ernestina Coast3, Workneh Yadete4, Guday Emirie5, Kassahun Tilahun6, Isimbi Roberte7, Marlene Ogawa8, Shirley Pendlebury9, Carmel Marock0 ...
    Series Book 7 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and leads to often unreversed damage for the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • West African Worlds

    Paths Through Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and Development

    by Reginald Cline-Cole, Elsbeth Robson ...
    Series series Developing Areas Research Group
    West African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africa’s most populous and arguably most externally focused region. With an emphasis on globalisation and modernisation, case studies and commentary are integrated throughout to highlight the concerns and issues of the region.Enriched by an impressive mix of West African voices, this text combines theory ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Young People’s Daily Mobilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Moving Young Lives

    by Gina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Albert Abane, Alister Munthali, Elsbeth Robson, Mac Mashiri ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three African countries: Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa. Wider reflections on gender, relationality, the politics of mobility, and field methodology frame the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth

    Young Rural Lives

    Edited by Ruth Panelli, Samantha Punch, Elsbeth Robson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    This collection of international research and collaborative theoretical innovation examines the socio-cultural contexts and negotiations that young people face when growing up in rural settings across the world. This book is strikingly different to a standard edited book of loosely linked, but basically independent, chapters. In this case, the book presents both thematically organised case studies ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • From Poverty to Power

    by Duncan Green ...
    This new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and food crises. From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Africa in International Politics

    External Involvement on the Continent

    Edited by Ian Taylor, Paul Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy framework in order to study how these powers have attempted to stimulate democracy, peace and prosperity in the context of neo-liberal hegemony and ... Read more

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  • The New Scramble for Africa

    by Padraig R. Carmody ...
    Once marginalized in the world economy, the past decade has seen Africa emerge as a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. With its share of world trade and investment now rising and the availability of natural resources falling, the continent finds itself at the centre of a battle to gain access to and control of its valuable natural assets. China's role in ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Africa and the North

    Between Globalization and Marginalization

    Edited by Ulf Engel, Gorm Rye Olsen ...
    Series series New International Relations
    An important new discussion of Africa's place in the international system.This volume discusses Africa's place in the international system, examining the way in which the Westphalian system, in light of the impact of globalization and transnational networks, continues to play a major role in the structuring of Africa's international relations.The book provides a solid empirical analysis of key ... Read more

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  • Free Trade

    Myth, Reality and Alternatives

    by Graham Dunkley ...
    Series series Global Issues
    In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to today's world-dominating globalization project. The more euphoric globalists uncritically assume that it has universal and unequivocal benefits for all people and countries. And the perpetual negotiations of the World Trade Organization are wholly based ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The End of Development

    A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity

    by Andrew Brooks ...
    Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?Human history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century in an argument grounded in a deep understanding of geography, Andrew Brooks rejects popular explanations for the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Our Common Interest

    An Argument

    by Commission for Africa ...
    'The Commission for Africa finds the conditions of the lives of the majority of Africans to be intolerable and an affront to the dignity of all mankind. We insist upon an alteration of these conditions through a change of policy in favour of the weak.'The report of the Commission for Africa is the most important document of our time. Created by major decision-makers from across the globe, it is a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation

    The Architecture and Extension of International Trade Regulation

    by Rorden Wilkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Political Economy
    This book explores the significance of the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as well as some of the issues brought into sharper focus by the Seattle demonstrations of 1999. Located within the broader study of global governance, Multilateralism and the World Trade Organisation offers a critical examination of the legal framework of the WTO. The book uncovers a series of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD