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  • Handbook of Research on Theoretical Perspectives on Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Developing Countries
    Patrick Ngulube
    There has been a growth in the use, acceptance, and popularity of indigenous knowledge. High rates of poverty and a widening economic divide is threatening the accessibility to western scientific knowledge in the developing world where many indigenous people live. Consequently, indigenous knowledge has become a potential source for sustainable development in the developing worl...
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    361,10 €

  • Neoliberalizing Spaces in the Philippines
    Arnisson Andre Ortega
    Amidst the recent global financial crisis and housing busts in various countries, the Philippines’ booming housing industry has been heralded as 'Southeast Asia’s hottest real estate hub' and the saving grace of a supposedly resilient Philippine economy. This growth has been fueled by demand from balikbayan (returnee) Overseas Filipinos and has facilitated the rise of gated sub...
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    157,65 €

  • The Indian Righteousness
    Amulya K. Mohanty
    The Indian Righteousness is about theoretical patterns of the way Indians define righteousness in their family and social life, politics, democracy, development issues and rationality in present times. Literary and intellectual in style, it is an exposé of Indian society in post-liberalization and post-globalization times, locating the way Indians address ethical conflicts, inc...
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    7,77 €

  • Chinese vs. Western Perspectives
    Jinghao Zhou
    China is on the rise in the globalized world. The relationship between China and the United States has become the most important global issue in the twenty-first century. It is urgent to understand what is happening in China and where China is heading. However, there are many misconceptions about China in the West, which affect Westerners’ ability to objectively understand Chi...
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    70,48 €

  • China’s Millennials
    Eric Fish
    In 1989, students marched on Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reform. The Communist Party responded with a massacre, but it was jolted into restructuring the economy and overhauling the education of its young citizens. A generation later, Chinese youth are a world apart from those who converged at Tiananmen. Brought up with lofty expectations, they’ve been accustomed to un...
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    43,23 €

  • International Development
    Damien Kingsbury / Janet Hunt / John McKay
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    63,40 €

  • Knowing China
    Frank Pieke
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    29,66 €

  • Combating Criminalized Power Structures
    Michael Dziedzic
    Criminalized power structures (CPS) are illicit networks that profit from transactions in black markets and from criminalized state institutions while perpetuating a culture of impunity. These criminalized power structures are the predominant spoilers of peace settlements and stability operations. This volume focuses on the means available to practitioners to cope with the chal...
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    127,82 €

  • Economic Development in Africa Report 2016
    United Nations Conference on Trade and D
    Africa has major development aspirations in the broader context of a global and continental economic development agenda. This calls for substantial financial resources at a time when the global development finance landscape is changing, from a model centred on official development assistance and the coverage of remaining financing needs through external debt, to a framework wit...
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    36,48 €

  • Combating Criminalized Power Structures
    Michael Dziedzic
    Criminalized power structures (CPS) are illicit networks that profit from transactions in black markets and from criminalized state institutions while perpetuating a culture of impunity. These criminalized power structures are the predominant spoilers of peace settlements and stability operations. This volume focuses on the means available to practitioners to cope with the chal...
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    53,10 €

  • African Independence
    Tukufu Zuberi
    African Independence highlights the important role Africa has played in recent history and the significant role it will continue to play in the future of America and the globe. In a world where much of the power and wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a very few people, this book looks at how the history of African independence has touched all people-from refugees to he...
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    39,29 €

  • MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES AND HOST COUNTRY DEVELOPMENT
    Holger Görg
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    181,31 €

  • A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty
    Craig Wilson / George Lodge
    World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist with the International Finance Corporation, argues that the solution lies in the creation of a new institutio...
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    37,86 €

  • Population Growth and Rapid Urbanization in the Developing World
    As the global population continues to boom, particularly in the developing countries, it has become necessary to find ways to handle this increase through various policy tools that address population growth and urbanization problems. The urbanization process has both potentials issues as well as opportunities to move societies forward that need to be exploited. Population Growt...
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    269,10 €

  • Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2016
    Economic and Social Commission for Asia
    The Survey 2016 assesses the region's outlook as it navigates through global uncertainties, providing policy options and strategies to support countries in striving towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The report analyses a wide range of areas including economic growth, inflation, trade and investment, financial markets, inequality, employment, and environmental...
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    107,20 €

  • Economic Report on Africa 2016
    Economic Commission for Africa
    The 2016 edition of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA 2016) focuses on greening industrialization and highlights sustainable and people-centred industrialization. Given the impacts of climate change, resource scarcities and environmental degradation, measures for de-risking Africa's development are critical. The form and pattern of Africa's industrialization, shaped by its abu...
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    82,54 €

  • La visión territorial y sostenible del desarrollo local
    Autores Varios
    Este volumen pretende dar respuestas aplicadas a la problemática del desarrollo sostenible. Debido a la inmensa red de interacciones que ultrapasa cualquier frontera, los retos que afrontan los territorios y las sociedades son en el s.XXI más complejos,y las nuevas oportunidades emergen de la mano de la buena gobernanza territorial. El progreso, entendido en términos de oportun...
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    29,50 €

  • Migration by Boat
    Lynda Mannik
    At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, ...
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    204,83 €

  • La vision territorial y sostenible del desarrollo local
    Autores Varios
    Este volumen pretende dar respuestas aplicadas a la problemática del desarrollo sostenible. Debido a la inmensa red de interacciones que ultrapasa cualquier frontera, los retos que afrontan los territorios y las sociedades son en el s.XXI más complejos,y las nuevas oportunidades emergen de la mano de la buena gobernanza territorial. El progreso, entendido en términos de oportun...
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    29,50 €

  • Life in the Time of Oil
    Lori Leonard
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    23,86 €

  • A History of Rwandan Identity and Trauma
    Randall Fegley
    Few societies have faced the difficulties of identity building experienced by Rwanda. This book’s introduction reviews literature on the concepts of myth and trauma, and then introduces basic information on Rwanda and how it has been viewed by the outside world. Chapter One describes early Rwanda’s political and cultural development, traditional narratives, group migrations, th...
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    119,64 €

  • International Perspectives on Socio-Economic Development in the Era of Globalization
    In today’s world, globalization bears intense interdependencies between countries, and the impact global business transactions have on society and economics is more palpable than ever. Despite this, many developing countries in the global market find themselves struggling to support perpetual population growth. These countries must find ways to attain sustainable development in...
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    229,65 €

  • SEEING OTHERS SUCCESSFUL
    JOSEPH A. ROGOWSKI
    This manual is an Apologetic, Autobiographical, Technical, and Philosophical blend to give the reader an informative, practical, Instructive, and entertaining learning experience. It recounts some life experiences on the mission field that few have rarely encountered. Author Rogowski suggests that in our church mission efforts, we often underrate the effectiveness of demonstrat...
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    12,52 €

  • Moving in Circles. Underdevelopment and the Narrative of Uncertainty in the Global Periphery
    Ignasio Malizani Jimu
    Moving in Circles draws on Walter Rodney’s treatise on underdevelopment. Underdevelopment is to be associated with various factors contributing to the uncertainties that lack of progress begets, regardless of its genesis. Some of the indicators of this condition are pervasive poverty, liquidation of productive assets, and precarious livelihoods. Uncertainty stands out as a cost...
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    55,84 €

  • Who Knows Tomorrow?
    Sandra Calkins
    Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and...
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    204,86 €

  • Political Influence of the Media in Developing Countries
    The media plays an intricate role in the political economy of developing nations as it conveys the social issues and impacts of a government’s legislation and policy. However, information is often miscommunicated or biased in emergent economies as media owners often tailor news and advertisements to promote their own agendas rather than meet the needs of citizens. Political Inf...
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    262,40 €

  • Understanding Globalization
    Robert K Schaeffer / Robert K. Schaeffer / Robert KSchaeffer
    Understanding Globalization introduces students to the concept of globalization, providing an essential history, overview of key themes and theories, and a wealth of engaging examples. The fifth edition has been completely revised to connect with students today, opening with a discussion of the far-reaching causes and effects of the recent financial crisis and including new mat...
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    152,47 €

  • Understanding Globalization
    Robert K Schaeffer / Robert K. Schaeffer / Robert KSchaeffer
    Understanding Globalization introduces students to the concept of globalization, providing an essential history, overview of key themes and theories, and a wealth of engaging examples. The fifth edition has been completely revised to connect with students today, opening with a discussion of the far-reaching causes and effects of the recent financial crisis and including new mat...
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    63,91 €

  • Industrial Development Report 2016
    United Nations Industrial Development Or
    This report looks at how technology and innovation achieves inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID). Its main finding is that ISID is feasible and technology can simultaneously serve all three dimensions of sustainability, including economic, social and environmental. Rapid inclusive and sustainable industrialization can happen more frequently provided that poli...
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    95,86 €

  • Reimagining Pan-Africanism. Distinguished Mwalimu Nyerere Lecture Series 2009-2013
    Samir Amin / Thandika Mkandawire / Wole Soyinka
    In the nineteen 60s and 70s, the University of Dar es salaam was recognised internationally as a great academic institution, and the site of anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, socialist studies and activism. With the onslaught of neo-liberalism beginning with Structural Adjustment Programmes in Tanzania in the mid 80s, the university was one of its prime targets; subjected to ...
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    50,76 €


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