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Contemporary Issues in Development Finance provides a comprehensive and up to date coverage of theoretical and policy issues in development finance from both the domestic and external finance perspectives, placing emphasis on addressing the gaps in financial markets.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of three key areas: heterodox macroeconomics, development economics and classical political economy. It offers an alternative macroeconomic framework to analyze policies with an emphasis on issues of equity and justice.
This book focuses on how local, national and international civil society groups opposed to the Belo Monte and São Luiz do Tapajós hydroelectric projects in... Læs mere
This volume charts the rise of the concept of "inclusive development" and simultaneously recognizes its problematic implications as it shifts the focus of development work from efficiency to justice.
This book provides an alternative perspective on community resilience, drawing on critical sociological and social policy insights about how people individually and collectively cope with different kinds of adversity.
This book explains how global corporations manage their own greenhouse gas emissions and the emissions from their supply and value chains, and explains how stakeholders such as investors, NGOs and governments might drive significant reductions in these emissions.
In this engaging and extensively illustrated book, Cecilia L. Chu retells the ‘Hong Kong story’ by tracing theemergence of its ‘speculative landscape’ from the late nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century.
This book examines how states in eight countries across Asia and the Pacific address internal... Læs mere
This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam. After decades of war, the community continued... Læs mere
Citizen Aid and Everyday Humanitarianism brings together, under the umbrella terms of citizen aid and grassroots humanitarianism, interdisciplinary research on small-scale, privately funded forms of aid that operate on the margins of the official development sector.
The policy for climate change prioritises mitigation over adaptation. This title argues that although efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are vital, the new policy paradigm should shift the priority to adaptation, with a special focus on disaster risk reduction.