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Karoline Eickhoff provides an in-depth analysis of the role that national ownership as a key policy principle of international development and peacebuilding plays in shaping the discourses and practices of external interventions in the context of the peace process in...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-01-22
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This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries. The authors argue that the rise of a global ‘robot reserve army’ has profound effects on labor markets and economic development, but,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-01-13
Collection :
Rethinking International Development series
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Employing a novel collaborative transnational methodology, this ground-breaking book presents the first comprehensive and systematic comparison of Mexico and South Africa. Although geographically, historically and diplomatically far apart, Mexico and South Africa are...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2019-11-12
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This book builds upon critiques of development in the disability domain by investigating the necessity and implications of theorising disability from the Global South and how development policies and practices pertaining to disabled people in such contexts might be...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-04
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The book specifies infrastructure construction achievements and the present development situation in China in the 30 years after the reform and opening up in the fields of architecture, energy, transportation, environmental protection, water conservancy,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-08-29
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The theme of this book is the cultural construction in Zhejiang Province under the guidance of “China Dream” policy. It reviews the profound history of traditional culture in Zhejiang, and concludes with the modern practice and achievements by the local...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-07-03
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This book explores the changing face of development assistance. China's One Belt, One Road development program is the largest international investment scheme in history, surpassing the Marshall Plan by an order of magnitude. In 2017, a group of top scholars from Fudan,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-24
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This book explores the linkages between Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and participatory forms of development – especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up. It shows how the capability approach and the participatory movement...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-15
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This book focuses on the major social and political forces that have shaped the ways in which sport has been understood, organized, and contested in an effort to engender social change.
Integrating the history of international development with the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-04
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This book examines non-participatory memberships or why states choose not to use the benefits of international institutions to which they belong. To investigate this question, the author explores why states choose not to litigate within the World Trade Organization’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-25
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Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-21
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Why have many developing countries that have succeeded in expanding access to education made such limited progress on improving learning outcomes? There is a growing recognition that the learning crisis constitutes a significant dimension of global inequality and also...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-21
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After addressing the "state of the art" about migrant entrepreneurship, and reviewing the literature and methodological description, the reader is invited to "travel", separately, through the various territories analyzed, in the sense of an individualized perception and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-02-12
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This book explores how humanitarian interventions for children in difficult circumstances engage in affective commodification of disadvantaged childhoods. The chapters consider how transnational charitable industries are created and mobilized around childhood...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-07
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This edited volume focuses on the attempts of various Caribbean countries to diversify their economies and societies. It is done in the context of political and economic difficulties that these countries have faced since the 2007-2008 economic crash and how successful...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-23
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This book explores children’s lives across the Global North and Global South in the context of academic discussions of childhoods. The edited volume offers a unique selection of materials suitable for teaching in the areas of children, childhoods, young people,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-29
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This Brief explores the problem of creating organizational change and a culture of lawfulness within police organizations in the developing world. In many countries where police are charged with responding to crime, they are themselves entrenched in histories of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-10-11
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This book provides the solid and detailed evidence for some debated theories in Chinese studies, based on quantitative-qualitative analysis or mixed methods, which is quite novel compared with the extant work through qualitative or quantitative research alone. In...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-08-27
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The book examines the various ways that fragile states (or states with limited statehood) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas have adopted, and adapted to, the processes of liberal political governance in their quests to address the problem of political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-21
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This book is based on experience and reflections related to international support provided to parliaments and legislative bodies both in selected countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ghana, Serbia, and Kyrgyzstan) and globally. The author intends to provide a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-21
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