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  • Unravelling the Mysteries of Africa’s Underdevelopment
    John W. Forje / John WForje
    Unravelling the mysteries of Africa’s underdevelopment presents an Afrocentric ideological understanding of the continent’s fragmentation; a scientific and objective (Mijadala) discourse as well as an approach of how to move progressively and sustainably Africa forward. The breadth and depth of the book shows the unwavering impoverishment and urgent need for the continent to st...
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    112,36 €

  • Sustainability in the Political and Socio-Economic Spheres of Development in Zimbabwe
    Sustainability is often just looked into as found at the intersection between economic, environmental and equity (3Es) variables, also referred to as production, planet and people (3Ps). However, the major determinants of global environmental change are the human species themselves. While they are part of the three Es, they go further to create a fourth pillar, the institutions...
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    180,58 €

  • Beyond Tenderpreneurship
    MISTRA
    Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies have been a central pillar of attempts to overcome the economic legacy of apartheid. Yet, more than two decades into democracy, economic exclusion in South Africa still largely reflects the fault-lines of the apartheid era.Current discourse often conflates BEE with the so-called ‘tenderpreneurship’ referred to in the title, namely the rel...
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    83,09 €

  • World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined
    In a time of turmoil in international economic law, experts from 10 countries suggest ideas for a new and progressive trade and investment regime in ’World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined’ that would help sustain growth, facilitate development and ensure that gains are shared and losses compensated. ...
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    57,31 €

  • China in Ethiopia
    Aaron Tesfaye
    This comprehensive study of China-Ethiopia relations examines why China-an economic and emerging global power-has built relations with Ethiopia and why Ethiopia has responded by singling out China as a partner in its quest for economic development. Using middle-range theory and field research, Aaron Tesfaye focuses on three sets of phenomena: political, economic, and strategic....
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    127,24 €

  • The Red Cross Movement
    This book offers new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Red Cross Movement by leading historians in the field. It re-imagines and re-evaluates the Red Cross as an institutional network and a key actor in the humanitarian space through two centuries of war and peace. ...
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    169,33 €

  • The Challenge of African Potentials
    This collection of articles is based on presentations and discussions at the 2018 African Potentials Forum, held in Accra, Ghana. This forum was a part of the African Potentials Project, which aims to clarify the latent problem-solving abilities, ways of thinking, and institutions that have been created, accumulated, unified, and deployed in the everyday experiences of Africans...
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    70,73 €

  • Africa and the World
    Francis Kornegay Jnr
    Africa and the World: Navigating Shifting Geopolitics is one of the first books to analyse the global geopolitical landscape from an African perspective, with a view to the opportunities and challenges facing the African continent. Authors in this edited volume argue for the need to re-imagine Africa’s role in the world. As a cradle of humanity, a historical fountain of profoun...
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    87,87 €

  • AFRICA FIRST!
    Jakkie Cilliers
    What stops Africa, with its abundant natural resources, from capitalising on its boundless potential? Well-known Africa analyst Jakkie Cilliers uses 11 scenarios to unpack, in concrete terms, how the continent can ignite a growth revolution that will take millions out of poverty and into employment.Africa urgently needs much more rapid economic growth. Cilliers identifi es and ...
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    23,17 €

  • Global Justice
    James Christensen
    Do we have moral duties to people in distant parts of the world? If so, how demanding are these duties? And how can they be reconciled with our obligations to fellow citizens?Every year, millions of people die from poverty-related causes while countless others are forced to flee their homes to escape from war and oppression. At the same time, many of us live comfortably in safe...
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    57,63 €

  • God Is Red
    Liao Yiwu
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    12,82 €

  • Social Protection in Africa
    Social Protection is an area of policy and development in Africa responsible for ensuring inclusive growth and the provision of social needs which sustain human well-being. This book contains essays which analyse the role of government and non-government organisations in the provision of social protection needs for citizens in Africa, and reflect the socio-political and economi...
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    70,63 €

  • Religion and Development in Southern and Central Africa
    This book is a result of a joint conference, which was held from 18th-22nd July 2017 under the theme Religion, Citizenship and Development – Southern African Perspectives." The theme of the conference was adopted in order to underline the importance and significance of religion in the socio-economic development of people in the world generally and in Southern and Central Africa...
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    67,87 €

  • Exiles, Entrepreneurs, and Educators
    Steven J. L. Taylor / Steven JLTaylor
    Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present. ...
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    41,16 €

  • Development Planning in South Africa
    John Reynolds
    Celebrated as a beacon of democracy and reconciliation, many people in South Africa continue to live in severe poverty, particularly in the Eastern Cape Province. Backed by the United Nations Development Programme, the Eastern Cape's provincial government consequently launched an historically ambitious programme – the Provincial Growth and Development Plan – aimed at tackli...
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    39,32 €

  • Borders without Barriers
    Marwa Abdou / Ronald Antonio Butiong / Utsav Kumar
    This book presents an analysis of the state of trade facilitation in member countries of the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) program.It includes country-level studies and identifies four common trade facilitation priorities among SASEC countries: (i) implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement and other international conventions; (ii) logistics and in...
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    53,18 €

  • The Transformation of Capacity in International Development
    Avideh K Mayville / Avideh K. Mayville
    'The Transformation of Capacity in International Development' exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approaches to development, the international management of global security threats and su...
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    180,14 €

  • Roaming Africa
    What happens when digital innovation meets migration? Roaming Africa considers how we understand modern-day mobility in Africa, where age-old routes strengthen the resilience of people roaming the continent for livelihoods and security, assisted by mobile communication. Digital mobility expands connectivity around the world, and also in Africa. In this book, the authors show th...
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    87,13 €

  • Sharing Knowledge, Transforming Societies
    In June 2016, the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (Norhed) hosted a conference on the theme of ‘knowledge for development’ in an attempt to shift the focus of the programme towards its academic content. This book follows up on that event. The conference highlighted the usefulness of presenting the value of Norhed’s d...
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    118,02 €

  • International Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets
    This volume presents insights from Brazil, China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Turkey to enlighten scholars by unearthing the nature, drivers, barriers and determinants of entrepreneurship in emerging markets ...
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    152,66 €

  • Food Aid in Sudan
    Susanne Jaspars
    In 2004, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan called Darfur the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. A comprehensive food aid programme soon followed, at the time the largest in the world. Yet by 2014, while the crisis continued, international agencies found they had limited access to much of the population, with the Sudanese regime effectively controlling who received aid...
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    39,41 €

  • Natural Resource Endowment and the Fallacy of Development in Cameroon
    Lotsmart Fonjong
    Cameroon is rich in petroleum, minerals, tropical forests, wildlife, water systems, fertile lands, and much more. Paradoxically however, most citizens live in abject poverty and without jobs, potable water, electricity, good healthcare and roads. This book is a thoughtful interrogation of some of the structural factors driving persistent poverty in Cameroon in the midst of natu...
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    91,32 €

  • Effective Approaches to Poverty Reduction
    Asian Development Bank
    This report presents nine case studies on poverty reduction projects financed by ADB in Mongolia, Nepal, the People’s Republic of China, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan, and Viet Nam.  The case studies highlight effective approaches to poverty reduction by (i) providing broader access to economic opportunities; (ii) promoting resilience, and (iii) empowering communities ...
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    28,43 €

  • Human Rights for Children and Youth
    This volume, written by experts in the field across 3 different continents, explores the condition of childhood with a particular focus on the fundamental rights of children and young people and how this translates into living conditions in different socio-cultural realities. ...
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    174,54 €

  • Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies
    Dana L. Ott / Snejina Michailova
    Talent Management in Small Advanced Economies explores ideas of talent and talent management, and why it matters in the context of small advanced economies. Snejina Michailova and Dana L. Ott incorporate practitioner and consultant’s views to examine attracting, developing and retaining talent in small developed economies, globally. ...
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    143,29 €

  • In the Heat of Africa’s Underdevelopment
    John W. Forje / John WForje
    The ever growing disparity in living standards between the developed and developing polities constitutes a striking feature of life on Planet Earth. This publication is an attempt to highlight some of the factors dividing the worlds apart. A new North-South synergy is needed in creating a balanced world at peace with itself. As long as more than half-the population of the world...
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    59,16 €

  • Aspects of Real Estate Theory and Practice in Zimbabwe
    The subject of real estate is increasingly becoming important, especially in the countries of the developing world. States and governments realise that real estate is a corner stone of socio-economic development. Real estate development contributes immensely to the gross physical capital formation. Its formation, construction and ancillary sectors contribute to the employment, ...
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    81,11 €

  • SADC Gender Protocol 2019 Barometer
    Colleen Lowe Morna / Kubi Rama / Shamiso Chigorimbo
    Scoring another goal for gender equality, the 2019 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Gender Protocol Barometer breaks with past tradition in focusing solely on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. Measuring 100 indicators across seven themes, the Barometer is the first civil society shadow report on SADC’s new SRHR Strategy Score Card, ranking countries based ...
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    95,36 €

  • Getting Africa Out of the Dungeon
    Peter Ateh-Afac Fossungu
    Using one of the continent’s supposed pathfinders, Cameroon as case-study, this book interrogates judiciary in Africa in three domains. First, as the third branch of government, second, as the acknowledged umpire of federalism, and, finally, as a means of reversing the institutionalization of in-human rights and injustice administration in Africa. While examining the roots and ...
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    49,68 €

  • Nhakanomics
    Daud Taranhike / Munyaradzi Mawere / Ronnie Lessem
    Nhakanomics: Harvesting Knowledge and Value for Re-generation Through Social Innovation is a radical departure from the commonly held belief that neo-liberal economics from the US and the West is universal, and is the only solution to underdevelopment and poverty throughout the world. Instead, the book teases out and theorises the intellectually rutted terrain of development st...
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    90,97 €


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