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Community Participation in China
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 135.00This important volume provides a source of information on the key issues, including constraints and capacity building, necessary to implement participatory approaches in China today. A wealth of case studies are provided by principal Chinese academics and practitioners in forestry, natural resource management, rural development, irrigation and poverty... more...
Half the Sky
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.95#1 National Bestseller From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era?s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet... more...
Complexity and Public Policy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 45.95This book provides a clear, concise and readable introduction to complexity thinking, its application to the social sciences and public policy, and the relevance of some of its various tools to those fields of politics, health, the international realm, development, planning and terrorism. The authors argue that the foundation for many of the... more...
Cambodia's Curse
PublicAffairs 2011; US$ 17.99A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist returns to Cambodia thirty years after the fall of the Khmer Rouge to report on the country's struggle to recover from its past more...
Food and Famine in the 21st Century
ABC-CLIO 2012; US$ 189.00This comprehensive two-volume encyclopedia examines specific famines throughout history and contains entries on key topics related to food production, security and policies, and famine, giving readers an in-depth look at food crises and their causes, responses to them, and outcomes. more...
Re-thinking Development in Africa
Langaa RPCIG 2011; US$ 24.95In this thought provoking book, Komla Tsey argues that if governments, NGOs, development donor agencies and researchers are serious about development in Africa, they need to get down to ground level, both metaphorically and literally. They must search deep into Africaís own rich oral traditions by creating space and opportunity for ordinary Africans,... more...
Development Organizations
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95Continuing debates over the meaning of development and awareness of the persistence of poverty have resulted in increasing concern over how to ?do? development. There are growing numbers of development organizations, undertaking different activities, at different scales, with different motivations, and differing levels of success. It is necessary... more...
The Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment in Africa
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00While Africa is too often regarded as lying on the periphery of the global political arena, this is not the case. African nations have played an important historical role in world affairs. It is with this understanding that the authors in this volume set out upon researching and writing their chapters, making an important collective contribution to... more...
Development, Power, and the Environment: Neoliberal Paradox in the Age of Vulnerability
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00Unmasking the neoliberal paradox, this book provides a robust conceptual and theoretical synthesis of development, power and the environment. With seven case studies on global challenges such as under-development, food regime, climate change, dam building, identity politics, and security vulnerability, the book offers a new framework of a "double-risk"... more...
Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Africa - Volume 2
International Development Research Centre 2003; US$ 30.00This volume examines the setting, operations, and effects of community telecentres. It describes the telecentre experiences of a variety of local and often rural communities, exploring the management structures and mechanisms that have been established to support these telecentres. The book provides profiles of telecentre usage and discusses the potential... more...









