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Global Issues eBook Series

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  • Who Owes Who

    50 Questions about World Debt

    by Damien Millet, Eric Toussaint ...
    Series series Global Issues
    Using 50 questions and answers, this book explains the debt impasse for developing countries in a simple but precise manner. It details the roles of the various actors involved, the mesh in which indebted countries are caught, the possible scenarios for getting out of the impasse, and the various alternatives to future indebtedness. It also sets out the various arguments - moral, political, ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

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  • Half the Sky

    by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope,two of our most fiercely moral voicesWith Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the ... Read more

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  • The Passions and the Interests

    Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Jeremy Adelman ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Population and Development

    The Demographic Transition

    by Tim Dyson ...
    The demographic transition and its related effects of population growth, fertility decline and ageing populations are fraught with controversy. When discussed in relation to the global south and the modern project of development, the questions and answers become more problematic.Population and Development offers an expert guide on the demographic transition, from its origins in Enlightenment ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Urban Revolt

    State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South

    Edited by Trevor Ngwane, Immanuel Ness, Luke Sinwell ...
    How do individuals and organizations move beyond the boundaries of constitutional or legal constructs to challenge neoliberalism and capitalism? As major urban areas have become the principal sites of poor and working-class social upheaval in the early twenty-first century, the chapters in this book explore key cities in the Global South. Through detailed cases studies, Urban Revolt unravels the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Dynamic Sustainabilities

    Technology, Environment, Social Justice

    Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, Andy Stirling ...
    Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international ... Read more

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  • Foreign Aid for Development

    Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda

    Edited by George Mavrotas ...
    Series series WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new 'big push' approach accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals or will another ... Read more

    $136.79 USD

  • The Sociology and Politics of Development

    A Theoretical Study

    by Baidya Nath Varma ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Development
    Originally published in 1980, this work answers the crucial question of how social change should be guided in the developing countries. Professor Varma begins by posing the problems of the general scope of modernization and the general criteria used in the modernization process. He examines carefully some of the models that have been used for this purpose in the past, providing extensive summaries ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Sustainable Future for the Mediterranean

    The Blue Plan's Environment and Development Outlook

    Edited by Guillaume Benoit, Aline Comeau ...
    'Here's a work arriving just at the right moment and contributingnew insights at precisely the time when public opinion remains sceptical of the not very promising future we are preparing for our children, when governments balk at explaining to their electorates the vital but unpopular decisions that have to be taken and when civil society, with few ways and means, is finally becoming involved. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics

    Edited by T. Hilgers ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America and why state policy is often ineffective. Political scientists and sociologists, the contributors employ ethnography, targeted interviews, case studies, within-case and regional comparison, thick descriptions, and process tracing. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Globalization, Democracy and Oil Sector Reform in Nigeria

    by Adeoye O. Akinola ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The Nigerian state has been oil-rich for decades, and yet perennially incapable of converting its oil resources into wealth for ordinary Nigerians. Adeoye O. Akinola tackles this “vexed” oil question by examining the political economy of efforts to deregulate the Nigerian downstream oil industry. Focusing on themes of globalization and democratization, this book considers how a resource-rich ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • India’s Family Planning Programme

    Policies, practices and challenges

    by Leela Visaria, Rajani R. Ved ...
    This book closely examines the changes, challenges and shifts in India’s family planning programme since its inception in 1952. It discusses the dynamics of population growth, the demographic dividend, family planning and its impact on maternal and child health, and the pressures from various quarters to remove method-specific contraceptive targets from the programme. The volume highlights the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD