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  • Policy Coherence in Development Co-operation

    Edited by Jacques Forster, Olav Schram Stokke ...
    Series series Routledge Research EADI Studies in Development
    In the 1990s, a shared conviction emerged among aid donors that their policies should be more coherent. The drive towards increased policy coherence came as a response to a state of policy incoherence. The shifting grounds of policy coherence in development co-operation are outlined in this volume. ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

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  • How Long will South Africa Survive? (2nd Edition)

    The Crisis Continues

    by Johnson RW ...
    In 1977 R W Johnson's best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? provided a controversial analysis of the survival prospects of the apartheid regime. Now, after more than twenty years of ANC rule, he believes the situation has become so critical that the question must be posed again. He moves from an analysis of Jacob Zuma's rule to the increasingly dire state of the South African economy, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancestral Lines

    The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest

    by John Barker ...
    More than a century of interaction with colonial and global agencies and forces have brought many changes to the lives of the Maisin people who live on the northeastern coast of Papua New Guinea. Yet ancestral traditions continue to strongly inform their way of life. Their beautifully designed tapa cloth, made from the pounded inner bark of the paper mulberry tree, most vividly connects the past ... Read more

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  • Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka

    A Short History of Internal Displacement and Resettlement

    by Robert Muggah ...
    Each year, millions of people are internally displaced and resettled in the wake of wars and floods or to make way for large-scale development projects, and this number is increasing. Humanitarian and development specialists continue to struggle with designing and executing effective protection strategies and durable solutions.Relocation Failures explains how internal displacement and efforts to ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Security and Sustainable Development in Myanmar

    by Helen James ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and security, going on to argue that freedom from want, and freedom from fear (of the regime) are in fact mutually supportive ideas, and that the security of the people and the security of the state are in fact in a symbiotic ... Read more

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  • Development Beyond Neoliberalism?

    Governance, Poverty Reduction and Political Economy

    by David Alan Craig, Doug Porter ...
    Development’s current focus – poverty reduction and good governance – signals a turn away from the older neoliberal preoccupation with structural adjustment, privatization and downsizing the state. For some, the new emphases on empowering and securing the poor through basic service delivery, local partnership, decentralization and institution building constitute a decisive break with the past and ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • The State of the World Atlas

    by Dan Smith ...
    Series series The Earthscan Atlas
    Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night.The world's car population has grown five times as fast as the human population over the last 50 years.Wal-Mart's sales revenue exceeds the GDP of 150 countries.Climate change may put 2.7 billion at ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • The Politics of the Governed

    Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

    by Partha Chatterjee ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Development

    An Introductory Guide

    by David Reid ...
    'Sustainable development' is the catchphrase of the 1990s. Governments around the world, international institutions, local organizations and NGOs have committed themselves to its principles and have adopted policies to promote it.But 'sustainable development' is difficult to define - let alone implement - and its proponents and advocates may all interpret it in very different ways.This ... Read more

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  • Organic Agriculture for Sustainable Livelihoods

    Edited by Niels Halberg, Adrian Muller ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    This book provides a timely analysis and assessment of the potential of organic agriculture (OA) for rural development and the improvement of livelihoods. It focuses on smallholders in developing countries and in countries of economic transition, but there is also coverage of and comparisons with developed countries. It covers market-oriented approaches and challenges for OA as part of high value ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Turkey

    by Zülküf Aydin ...
    Series series Third World in Global Politics
    Since the 1970s, Turkey has faced some of the most serious crises since the Republic was established in 1923. This book analyses the political and socio-economic problems faced by Turkey in recent decades and the country's gradual integration into the global economy.Social unrest, political and ethnic violence, paralysis of the state bureaucracy and other institutions, increasing foreign debt, ... Read more

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  • Governing African Gold Mining

    Private Governance and the Resource Curse

    by Ainsley Elbra ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book takes a fresh approach to the puzzle of sub-Saharan Africa’s resource curse. Moving beyond current scholarship’s state-centric approach, it presents cutting-edge evidence gathered through interviews with mining company executives and industry representatives to demonstrate that firms are actively controlling the regulation of the gold mining sector. It shows how large mining firms with ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD