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A comparative study in development performance between South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
An in-depth ethnographic exploration of how the AIDs pandemic has played out at a local level in South Africa, revealing the importance of understanding culture for shaping effective strategies of AIDs treatment.
This volume focuses on the key role of best practice on strengthening anti-poverty strategies. The authors explore how to transform best practice from impressionistic success stories into a more precise and reliable analytical tool.
Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world.
Focusing on the condition of public authority in Africa, Twilight Institutions investigates how, when confronted with state failure, public institutions attempt to gain authority; operating in the twilight between state and society, between public and private.
Leading researchers in the social sciences describe and explain the unequal chances of long and healthy life between social groups, ethnic groups, men and women and geographical areas.
aeo Offers a lively introduction to world population growth and the debates which surround it. aeo Original and provocative argument -- Furedi argues... Læs mere
Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape and are shaped by the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.
This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses.
Just about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a concrete idea of what the term actually entails. Development offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging... Læs mere
* Gathers together key readings on the major themes in the study of development and culture. * Structured clearly and supported by editorial material in order to... Læs mere
In this invaluable introduction to the major post--Second World War theories of Third World development, Peter Preston takes as his... Læs mere