Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“jayantha perera”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jayantha perera”
Skip side bar filters

  • Lose to Gain

    Is Involuntary Resettlement a Development Opportunity?

    Edited by Jayantha Perera ...
    A crucial issue that confronts development in South Asia is how to build a better life for people displaced by infrastructure development projects. This book comprises recent displacement and resettlement case studies conducted by eight anthropologists in South Asia. Each contributor wrote around the key theme of the book: Is involuntary resettlement a development opportunity for those displaced ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Challenges in Implementing Best Practices in Involuntary Resettlement

    A Case Study in Sri Lanka

    by Jayantha Perera, Amarasena Gamaathige, Chamindra Weerackody ...
    Infrastructure projects sometimes physically displace households and disrupt income sources and livelihoods. The Asian Development Bank offers several good governance practices to its borrowers to minimize such adverse impacts, especially since the absorption of such best practices by countries is usually slow and erratic. This publication presents an in-depth case study from a complex and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Color of Law

    A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

    by Richard Rothstein ...
    New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice SelectionOne of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the YearOne of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Hillman Prize for NonfictionGold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Show Me A Hero

    by Lisa Belkin ...
    NOW AN HBO MINISERIESNot in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity when the development in question is public housing. Lisa Belkin penetrates the prejudices, myths, and heated emotions stirred by the most recent trend in public housing as she re-creates a landmark case in riveting detail, showing ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy

    by Michael J. Prince, James J. Rice ...
    No one is content with the state of health and social programs in Canada today. The Right thinks that there is too much government involvement, and the Left thinks there is not enough. In Changing Politics of Canadian Social Policy James Rice and Michael Prince track the history of the welfare state from its establishment in the 1940s, through its development in the mid 1970s, to the period of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Disrupted

    Strategy for Exponential Change

    by Larry Quick, David Platt ...
    “People don’t get exponential” - Nicholas NegroponteIn the next 5 years, global Machine-to-Machine connections will grow by 400% from 5 billion to over 20 billion. In the past six years Uber has grown from a mere app to a 50 billion-dollar business. The driverless electric car is a reality, and the noxious methane gas that once escaped the Artic Ocean in meter-wide plumes now bubbles out of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 1000 Best Homebuying Secrets

    by Michael Flynn ...
    Series Book 0 - 1000 Best
    Navigate the homebuying process with ease!Let real estate pro Michael Flynn show you the ropes-Learn the lingo. CMA, MLS, FSBO, PMI--find out what it all means!-Know what to look for when choosing a neighborhood-Find out what features will attract buyers when it's time to resell-Your credit score--things you should know and what to do about it-Find out what loan arrangement is right for you-House ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Climbing Mount Laurel

    The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb

    by Len Albright, Rebecca Casciano, Elizabeth Derickson, Douglas S. Massey, David N. Kinsey ...
    A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decisionUnder the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households. Mount Laurel was the town at the center of the ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • White-Collar Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Sally S. Simpson ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • United Nations Development Programme

    Leading the way to development

    by 50minutes ...
    Series Book 6 - Economic Culture
    Leading the way to developmentThis book is a practical and accessible guide to understanding the role and mission of the United Nations Development Programme, providing you with the essential information and saving time.In 50 minutes you will be able to:• Understand the foundations of the organization and why it was created in 1965• Identify the global missions initially set by the organization, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mineral Rents and the Financing of Social Policy

    Opportunities and Challenges

    by Katja Hujo ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    An exploration of the implications of mineral-led wealth and the opportunities that this creates for economic and social development. The book includes theoretical and policy analyses as well as micro level country case studies, including Norway, Chile, Indonesia, Nigeria and Botswana. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Methodology for Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This publication displays the menu for choice of available methods to evaluate the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It caters mainly to policy makers from developing countries and aims to equip them with some economic knowledge and techniques that will enable them to conduct their own economic evaluation studies on existing or future FTAs, or to critically re-examine the results of impact ... Read more

    $5.99 USD