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Equity and development eBook Series

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  • Deliberation and Development

    Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies

    Edited by Patrick Heller, Vijayendra Rao ...
    Series series Equity and development
    This book marries two fields that rarely converse with one another: deliberative democracy and development studies. The study of deliberation—which explores normative and practical questions around group-based decision making through discussion or debate—has emerged as a critical area of study over the past two decades. Concurrently, the field of development has seen a spurt of interest in ... Read more

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  • Deliberation and Development

    Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies

    Edited by Patrick Heller, Vijayendra Rao ...
    Series series Equity and development
    Deliberation is the process by which a group of people, each with equal voice, can - via a process of discussion and debate - reach an agreement. Deliberation and Development attempts to do two things. First, it rethinks the role of deliberation in development and shows that it has potential well beyond a narrow focus on participatory projects. Deliberation, if properly instituted, has the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • Beyond the Developmental State

    Industrial Policy into the Twenty-first Century

    Edited by Ben Fine, Jyoti Saraswati, Daniela Tavasci ...
    Series series IIPPE
    Moving beyond abstract economic models and superficial descriptions of the market, Beyond the Developmental State analyses the economic, political and ideological interests which underpin current socio-economic processes.Through this approach, the contributors show the close interrelation between states and markets in both national and international contexts. Drawing on a wide range of case ... Read more

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  • Free Trade

    Myth, Reality and Alternatives

    by Graham Dunkley ...
    Series series Global Issues
    In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to today's world-dominating globalization project. The more euphoric globalists uncritically assume that it has universal and unequivocal benefits for all people and countries. And the perpetual negotiations of the World Trade Organization are wholly based ... Read more

    $46.34 CAD

  • A State Built on Sand

    How Opium Undermined Afghanistan

    by David Mansfield ...
    Oscillations in opium poppy production in Afghanistan have long been associated with how the state was perceived, such as after the Taliban imposed a cultivation ban in 2000-1. The international community's subsequent attempts to regulate opium poppy became intimately linked with its own state-building project, and rising levels of cultivation were cited as evidence of failure by those ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • People, Places and Policy

    Knowing contemporary Wales through new localities

    Edited by Martin Jones, Scott Orford, Victoria Macfarlane ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into ‘place-making’ and ‘locality-making’ in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research ... Read more

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  • Escape from the Staple Trap

    Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism

    by Paul Kellogg ...
    From fur and fish to oil and minerals, Canadian development has often been understood through its relationship to export staples. This understanding, argues Paul Kellogg, has led many political economists to assume that Canadian economic development has followed a path similar to those of staple-exporting economies in the Global South, ignoring a more fundamental fact: as an advanced capitalist ... Read more

    $30.95 CAD

  • Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa

    Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania

    by Mary Louisa Plummer, Daniel Wight ...
    New infections with HIV remain an urgent problem among young people in Africa, but many young Africans pursue sexual relationships with little thought about the epidemic. This book examines young people's sexual relationships in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa and investigates why the risk of HIV infection generally was not a salient concern for them. It is based on an extraordinarily ... Read more

    $71.00 CAD

  • Environments for Health

    by John J Macdonald, University of Western Sydney, Australia ...
    'John Macdonald once again turns the traditional approach to health care on its head. Instead of merely diagnosing and managing disease, he urges health services � and indeed society � to foster health ... and articulates a vision of a health promoting � a salutogenic � society'.Dimity Pond, School of Medical Practice and Population Health, University of Newcastle, AustraliaThe vast proportion of ... Read more

    $75.14 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Microfinance

    Financializing Poverty

    by Philip Mader ...
    Series series Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
    According to the author, rather than alleviating poverty, microfinance financialises poverty. By indebting poor people in the Global South, it drives financial expansion and opens new lands of opportunity for the crisis-ridden global capital markets. This book raises fundamental concerns about this widely-celebrated tool for social development. ... Read more

    $119.69 CAD

  • Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

    Edited by United Nations Publications ...
    Series series The United Nations Series on Development
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com.How much would poor nations need to invest to eliminate poverty, get all children in school and provide adequate basic health care for all? Can they afford it? Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East provides some clear answers to these questions. ... Read more

    $40.85 CAD

  • Pandas & Pens: China. A first-time fieldguide for teaching English

    by DW Ball ...
    A practical step-by-step DIY field guide for new teachers setting off to China to teach English, it encompasses everything you need to know from finding a suitable school, getting a visa and what to take. It will prepare you for culture shock, exotic foods, the people, the places and the (often) stange behaviour and thought patterns. Don't leave home without it. It will equip you for every ... Read more

    $7.22 CAD