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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Pearson Education 2006; US$ 16.99Drawing on case studies, this book offers a blueprint for how to fight poverty with profitability. It challenges readers to re-evaluate their preconceived notions about the commercial opportunities in serving the relatively poor nations of the world. It highlights the way to commercial success and societal improvement. more...
Information and Communication Technologies for Development in Africa - Volume 1
International Development Research Centre 2003; US$ 30.00This volume looks at the introduction, adoption, and utilization of ICTs at the community level. In various contexts - geographical, technological, socioeconomic, cultural, and institutional - the book explores the questions of community participation. It looks at how communities in sub-Saharan Africa have reacted to the changes brought about by the... more...
Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 53.95Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of a research project begun by Samuel Huntington and Larry Harrison in their widely discussed book Culture Matters the goal of which is guidelines for cultural... more...
Namibia Country Brief
World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 19.99The World Bank is in the initial stages of developing a new annual series of World Bank Country Briefs. Namibia - the third report in the series - will be published in the winter of 2009. These short, country-specific reports examine the economic, social, environmental, and business landscape of developing countries, focusing on issues critical to... more...
An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach
Earthscan 2009; US$ 39.95Aimed at undergraduates and post-graduates in the social sciences, as well as development practitioners, this textbook provides an introduction to the human development and capability approach; it also clarifies key concepts and fosters debate on a number of critical issues. The book offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics, which include... more...
Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization's Development Agenda
International Development Research Centre 2009; US$ 40.00The newly adopted World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Development Agenda presents a real opportunity to revolutionize the international governance of intellectual property law and policy. The litmus test for its success, however, will be if and how the agenda is implemented in practice. This edited collection brings together a series of... more...
The EU and World Regionalism
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 124.95This comparative book investigates the impact that the EU has on regionalization elsewhere through its inter-regional relations. Covering agriculture, trade, ASEAN, NAFTA, MERCOSUR and Commonwealth amongst other topics, it investigates whether the EU's contributions, both direct and indirect, to increased regional integration in different parts... more...
Development in an Insecure and Gendered World
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 114.95The Millennium Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 and explicit targets were set to eradicate key problems in human development by 2015. This collection focuses specifically on the goals relating to gender issues that are problematic for women. more...
The Living Constitution
Oxford University Press, USA 2010; US$ 20.99Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, leading constitutional... more...
Tackling HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination in South Asia
World Bank Publications 2010; US$ 14.99Although HIV prevalence in South Asia is low, vulnerable groups such as sex workers (SW), injecting drug users (IDU) and men who have sex with men (MSM) are at high risk for HIV. Widespread stigma impede efforts to reach those most in need of HIV prevention, care and treatment services. To tackle stigma, the South Asia Regional Development Marketplace... more...









