Development studies Books

Book SynopsisIn contrast to neo-classical mainstream approaches to economics, this innovative Modern Guide addresses the complex reality of economic development as an inherently uneven process, exploring the ways of theorizing and empirically exploring the mechanisms with which the unevenness manifests itself.Advancing experience-based theories in the debate of economic development, this Modern Guide provides a qualitative, holistic and nuanced understanding of economic inequality by uniquely combining explanations from a large number of academic fields. It covers a wide array of issues influencing wealth and poverty, technological innovation, ecology and sustainability, financialization, population, gender and geography, and considers the dynamics of cumulative causations created by the interplay between these factors. By looking at falling real wages, world income distribution, and refugees and migrants in poorer regions, it ultimately explains why wealth and poverty are so unevenly distributed globally.The cutting-edge discussions in this Modern Guide will prove invaluable for students and scholars from a range of disciplines including economics and development studies. In today’s world of ‘single-issue management’, the alternative theories of mutual influence in this book will prove useful to policy makers working across a variety of economic fields.Trade Review‘At the core of this edited book is the crucial place of imperialism in explaining uneven development. Erik Reinert is an outstanding development economist. In criticizing Eurocentric orthodox economics, which is expressed in mathematics, he, Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven, and the other authors reveal a notable knowledge of economics and the history of economic thought.’ -- Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil‘The boundless erudition of Erik Reinert animates this collection, augmented by the diverse expertise of many colleagues, and underpinned by their shared grasp of how and why the great voices of progressive political economy – List, Carey, Peshine Smith to name several – were stilled and forgotten as narrow dogmas came to rule the economic roost.’ -- James K. Galbraith, The University of Texas at Austin, US‘Uneven development is not an aberration: it’s been a central feature of capitalism through its history. This fascinating book provides many insights into this process: providing spatial and temporal analyses; identifying causes and consequences; linking with institutions and regulations; even showing how it can be associated with technological retrogression in some cases. Essential reading for anyone interested in economic development.’ -- Jayati Ghosh, University of Masschusetts Amherst, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: uneven development ‒ addressing causes versus treating symptoms 1 Erik S. Reinert and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven PART I NATURE-MADE VERSUS POLICY-MADE SOURCES OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT 1 Uneven economic development: identifying the blind spots of mainstream economics 19 Erik S. Reinert 2 Geography, uneven development and population density: attempting a non-ethnocentric approach to development 46 Erik S. Reinert, Salah Chafik and Xuan Zhao 3 Redirecting growth: inclusive, sustainable and innovation-led 71 Mariana Mazzucato and Carlota Perez PART II ASSUMPTIONS, ABSTRACTIONS AND APPROACHES TO UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT 4 Altered states: Cartesian and Ricardian dreams 108 Erik S. Reinert, Monica Di Fiore, Andrea Saltelli and Jerome R. Ravetz 5 Gender and uneven development 135 Lyn Ossome 6 Dependency theory: strengths, weaknesses, and its relevance today 147 Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven 7 The need to centre imperialism in studies of uneven development 171 Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven 8 Imperialism: a note on the unequal treaties of modern China and Japan 186 Xuan Zhao PART III UNDERSTANDING MECHANISMS THAT CREATE AND PREVENT INEQUALITY 9 Physiocracy, guillotines and antisemitism? Did economics emulate the wrong Enlightenment? 200 Andrea Saltelli and Erik S. Reinert 10 Technological retrogression and persistent poverty 218 Sylvi B. Endresen PART IV WHEN NATIONS AND SYSTEMS DECLINE AND COLLAPSE 11 When nations collapse: a note on Jacob Bielfeld’s ‘On the Decline of States’ (1760) 238 Erik S. Reinert 12 Free trade with the former COMECON countries as unequal exchange 255 Marta Kuc-Czarnecka, Andrea Saltelli, Magdalena Olczyk and Erik S. Reinert 13 Escaping the poverty trap in China: the co-evolution of diversity in property and economic development 277 Ting Xu 14 Recent experiences of successful economic policies: the case of Uzbekistan 304 Vladimir Popov PART V FINANCE VERSUS THE REAL ECONOMY 15 Uneven development, financialised capitalism and subordination 332 Bruno Bonizzi, Annina Kaltenbrunner and Jeff Powell 16 Unequal growth and the single currency: the fiscal policy paradox 348 Jan Kregel PART VI ECOLOGY 17 Identifying ecologically unequal exchange in the world-system: implications for development 367 Alf Hornborg Conclusion: what are the important lessons from history? 389 Erik S. Reinert and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven Index 406

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Book SynopsisGuided by the overarching question ''how and why does the emerging economy context matter for business?'', this collection brings together key contributions of Klaus Meyer on multinational enterprises (MNEs) competing in, and originating from, emerging economies. From theoretical to process perspectives, the book also explores how outward investment strategies contribute to building internationally competitive MNEs. It looks at the process by which foreign MNEs pursue distinct opportunities in each emerging economy by adapting their strategies to the specific business ecosystem. This includes, inter alia, the location of production, choice of entry mode, forms of equity and non-equity partnerships and market positioning. Conversely, when local firms set their ambitions beyond national boundaries, their own resources and capabilities are shaped by the business ecosystem of their home country. The author's theoretically grounded empirical research in Multinational Enterprises and Emerging Economies gives MSc students, PhD students and junior scholars the opportunity to dig deeper into the study of MNE growth. Keywords: Business in emerging economies book / emerging markets book Multinational enterprises Foreign entry in emerging economies Emerging economy multinationals Institutional theory Context of business Trade Review'The advance of post-war globalisation since China's Open Door Policy of 1978 and the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has transformed international business. It has stimulated both inward and outward investment flows in emerging economics in Eastern Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. Klaus Meyer is a leading researcher into these economies. This book epitomises his systematic and insightful investigations into the role of these emerging economies in the new world order.' --Mark Casson, University of Reading and Henley Business School, UK'Professor Klaus Meyer has brought together an exceptional collection of high-quality papers on emerging economy markets and firms, all published in leading academic journals. This volume will be a must-read in the years to come for any scholar interested in advancing international business research on emerging economies. The broad scope and intellectual depth of this collection confirm the status of Professor Meyer as the world's leading authority on the subject matter of emerging markets and emerging economy multinational enterprises.' --Alain Verbeke, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS)'This is a highly essential and extensive book tackling one of the key topics in contemporary international business - multinational enterprises investing in and from major emerging markets. Professor Meyer is to be congratulated on his long and remarkable achievements on international business in emerging economies, some of which are included in this very valuable book. Particularly insightful and significant are his rich theoretical discussions on strategic choice and growth of global firms entering emerging markets and emerging market firms go global.' --Yadong Luo, University of Miami, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Klaus E. Meyer ix PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON BUSINESS AND EMERGING ECONOMIES 1 ‘Probing Theoretically into Central and Eastern Europe: Transactions, Resources, and Institutions’, with Mike W. Peng, Journal of International Business Studies , 36 (6), 2005, November, 600–621 2 2 ‘Theoretical Foundations of Emerging Economy Business Research’, with Mike W. Peng, Journal of International Business Studies , 47 (1), 2016, January, 3–22 24 PART II CHOOSING LOCATIONS IN EMERGING MARKETS 3 ‘Foreign Investment Location and Institutional Development in Transition Economies’, with Alan Bevan and Saul Estrin, International Business Review , 13 (1), 2004, February, 43–64 45 4 ‘Foreign Investment Strategies and Sub-national Institutions in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Vietnam’, with Hung Vo Nguyen, Journal of Management Studies , 42 (1), 2005, January, 63–93 67 5 ‘Country-of-origin and Industry FDI Agglomeration of Foreign Investors in an Emerging Economy’, with Danchi Tan, Journal of International Business Studies , 42 (4), 2011, May, 504–20 98 PART III DESIGNING AND CHANGING OPERATION MODES 6 ‘Institutions, Transaction Costs, and Entry Mode Choice in Eastern Europe’, Journal of International Business Studies , 32 (2), 2001, June, 357–67 116 7 ‘Institutions, Resources, and Entry Strategies in Emerging Economies’, with Saul Estrin, Sumon Kumar Bhaumik and Mike W. Peng, Strategic Management Journal , 30 (1), 2009, 61–80 127 8 ‘Transaction Cost Perspectives on Alliances and Joint Ventures: Explanatory Power and Empirical Limitations’, with Yi Wang, in Jorma Larimo, Niina Nummela and Tuija Mainela (eds), Handbook on International Alliance and Network Research , Chapter 4, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015, 87–136 147 9 ‘Brownfield Acquisitions: A Reconceptualization and Extension’, with Saul Estrin, Management International Review , 51 (4), 2011, August, 483–509 197 10 ‘Market Penetration and Acquisition Strategies for Emerging Economies’, with Yen Thi Thu Tran, Long Range Planning , 39 (2), 2006, April, 177–97 224 11 ‘Business Under Adverse Home Country Institutions: The Case of International Sanctions Against Myanmar’, with Htwe Htwe Thein, Journal of World Business , 49 (1), 2014, January, 156–71 245 PART IV CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES ON MNEs FROM EMERGING ECONOMIES 12 ‘Home Country Institutions and the Internationalization of State Owned Enterprises: A Cross-Country Analysis’, with Saul Estrin, Bo B. Nielsen and Sabina Nielsen, Journal of World Business , 51 (2), 2016, February, 294–307 262 13 ‘Emerging Economy MNEs: How Does Home Country Munificence Matter?’, with Saul Estrin and Adeline Pelletier, Journal of World Business , 53 (4), 2018, June, 514–28 276 14 ‘Overcoming Distrust: How State-owned Enterprises Adapt Their Foreign Entries to Institutional Pressures Abroad’, with Yuan Ding, Jing Li and Hua Zhang, Journal of International Business Studies , 45 (8), 2014, October, 1005–28 291 15 ‘Diplomatic and Corporate Networks: Bridges to Foreign Locations’, with Jing Li, Hua Zhang and Yuan Ding, Journal of International Business Studies , 49 (6), 2018, August, 659–83 315 PART V PROCESS PERSPECTIVES ON MNEs FROM EMERGING ECONOMIES 16 ‘The Dynamics of Emerging Economy MNEs: How the Internationalization Process Model Can Guide Future Research’, with Ornjira Thaijongrak, Asia Pacific Journal of Management , 30 (4), 2013, December, 1125–53 341 17 ‘What is “Strategic Asset Seeking FDI?”’, Multinational Business Review , 23 (1), 2015, 57–66 370 18 ‘What Drives Firms’ Intent to Seek Strategic Assets by Foreign Direct Investment? A Study of Emerging Economy Firms’, with Lin Cui and Helen Wei Hu, Journal of World Business , 49 (4), 2014, October, 488–501 380 19 ‘Managing Talent in Emerging Economy Multinationals: Integrating Strategic Management and Human Resource Management’, with Katherine R. Xin, International Journal of Human Resource Management , 29 (11), 2018, 1827–55 394 Index 423

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Book SynopsisThis book develops a new approach to exploring China's relations with North Korea that utilises the concept of developmental peace. Bringing together various strands of Chinese thinking on the mutually reinforcing relationship between economic development, state stability, and international peace and security, the book provides novel insights into Chinese prescriptions for tackling North Korea's interrelated military and human security challenges. Contributors demonstrate how the lens of developmental peace helps to explain the rationale behind, as well as contradictions and challenges in, China's relations with North Korea on a range of issues such as denuclearisation, water and energy security, human rights, and economic development. Featuring top scholars from China and South Korea, as well as primary evidence from China, North and South Korea, the book greatly improves the understanding of the current perspectives in each state, and the impact they have on this vital security relationship. Asian studies - and in particular Chinese studies - scholars will appreciate the in-depth analysis of China's approach to relations with North Korea, as well as the first-hand evidence used. The analysis of the difficulties in China providing a singular approach to its relations will be useful to policy-makers and scholars looking into the complexities of foreign policy. Trade Review'This timely book contributes a much needed lens on China's Korea policy. Each of its essays probes a different dimension of China's developmental approach to peace and security on the Korean peninsula. The collection is a must read for experts seeking to make sense of China's engagement with Korea.' --Carla P. Freeman, Johns Hopkins University, US'A ''one-stop shop'' for anybody interested in the dynamics of what is becoming an ever more complex and multi-faceted relationship.' --Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: China and North Korea: between development and security 1 Catherine Jones and Sarah Teitt PART I CONCEPTUAL APPARATUS 2 China’s developmental peace and North Korea’s security challenges 25 Sarah Teitt 3 Who’s or whose China? In relation to North Korea 50 Catherine Jones PART II CHINA–NORTH KOREA RELATIONS 4 Beijing’s–Pyongyang’s complex relationship – a mixture of mutual strategic needs and partial distrust 65 Liu Ming 5 North Korea’s non-traditional security and China 80 Zheng Jiyong and Wang Xingxing 6 Security and development in transboundary water management between North Korea and China in the Yalu River Basin 121 Seungho Lee PART III REGIONAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF CHINA–NORTH KOREA RELATIONS 7 China’s policy preferences in dealing with North Korea’s non-traditional security challenges 149 Jaewoo Choo 8 China’s approach to the North Korean human rights issues and South Korea’s response 176 Jihwan Hwang 9 Conclusion 197 Sarah Teitt and Catherine Jones Appendix: Timeline of China–North Korea relations 207 Christina Durham Index 213

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Book SynopsisYouth Group: Coming of age in the church of Christian nationalism follows the life of a missionary kid as he traverses the bizarre world of anti-masturbation purity groups, CD immolation parties, the culture wars, and an occasional exorcism. Author Lance Aksamit explores how and why the Evangelical church didn't simply jump into bed with but became Christian Nationalists.

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Book SynopsisParasitic Plants in African Agriculture brings together for the first time in a single volume, the ecology, biology, damage, and control of all groups of African parasitic plants including both the relatively few parasites introduced to the continent as well as those native parasites that have spread from within Africa. The book covers the well-known witchweeds and broomrapes but also groups and species that have received less attention including mistletoes, dodders, rice vampire weed, and other species posing threats.The book distinguishes between stem and root parasitic weeds and between holoparasites and (facultative or obligate) hemiparasites. Based on their research and experience collectively spanning six decades, the authors provide an authoritative and state-of-the-art overview of the distribution, biology and impact of these highly specialized weeds and include recommendations for their management. Since parasitic plants in African agriculture primarily affect smallholder farmers, these weeds are explicitly discussed within a context of resource limitations and global changes. Readers are informed on all parasitic plant species relevant to African agriculture and the impact these plants have on crop production and livelihoods of smallholders in a changing world. Current and future management strategies are outlined in terms of their principles and effectiveness as well as their feasibility and affordability for farmers, all of which determine farmer adoption. The final chapter synthesises some of the relevant findings and statistics regarding parasitic weed distribution and their host crops and discusses implications in terms of future crop protection concerns in African agricultural systems.Key features: Authoritative text based on extensive field and laboratory work. First comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of parasitic plants and their management in Africa. Highly illustrated with photos, graphs and species distribution maps. Reviews previous basic and applied work, with relevance to smallholder farming systems.This book will be a valuable reference for students, researchers, extension workers, development officers, national agriculture researchers, plant pathologists, food security specialists, weed scientists, agronomists and botanists.

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Book SynopsisThe new millennium has witnessed profound changes to the way donor countries are approaching international development - with the emphasis now on collaborative, people-centred development. This timely book explores how research and research culture need to adapt to mesh with this new reality. John Spriggs, Barbara Chambers and Carole Kayrooz offer their unique perspective based on their experience working in agricultural and rural development in the Indo-Pacific region. They provide a unique take on the historical context of research to support agricultural and rural development tracing its evolution following World War 2. Advocating for the critical role of social science, the authors argue that the old, technocratic approach to research should be left behind as we explore and advance a new approach to research that reflects a collaborative, people-centred development strategy. This cutting-edge book provides a step-by-step approach, based on their Collaborative Research in International Development (CRID) research model. Pioneering the most up-to-date approaches to international development research, Towards Collaborative Research in International Development is crucial reading for researchers at all levels working in the field, particularly those working in national research bodies. Postgraduate students of development studies will also benefit from this book's critical insights and guidance for research methods. Trade Review'A great contribution to the field of collaborative research in international development. Not only do the authors provide excellent academic rigour and insights into the processes under study - they have personally lived the application of this in their research-for-development projects. As someone from the biophysical sciences, I can certainly testify to the effectiveness of these methods in international development projects that I have led. The authors have lived and tested this approach and I would wholeheartedly endorse their work to you.' --Suzie Newman, Head of International Development, the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited'For more than 40 years, small numbers of researchers have been trying to change how they collaborate with farmers to make their work more responsive to farmers' needs and local conditions. This book pulls this experience together to develop an approach with broad and strong foundations that works. Now it needs to be used by many if we have a chance of tackling the increasingly complex issues facing farmers and those to which they link.' --Boru Douthwaite, Selkie Consulting Ltd, IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to collaborative research in international development 2. Historical context for collaboration in development-oriented research 3. Emerging challenges for agricultural and rural research organizations 4. Changing the research culture to support a collaborative, people-centred development strategy 5. Towards collaborative, people-centred research 6. Foundations of a research model for collaborative, people-centred development 7. Collaborative, people-centred research in international development Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook collates a range of evidence from top scholars in the field to help readers understand who microfinance reaches, how it helps, and why clients come back. It offers updated views on important concepts that enable a broader framework for understanding poverty and the corresponding financial needs of poor households.Chapters cover recent findings on social impacts, the role of gender, fairness of interest rates, financial resilience in emergencies, and financial education, to provide a thorough coverage of key areas of the field. The Handbook focuses on delivery mechanisms for financial services including group liability lending, agent banking, and digital finance, as well as the special role of value chain finance and insurance for smallholder agriculture.The case studies from both developed and developing countries and regions, illustrating the novel aspects of the link between microfinance, financial inclusion and development will make this a critical read for economics and development studies scholars. The practitioner views on the role of microfinance included in the Handbook will also make this a relevant and useful read for policy makers and practitioners in the areaTrade Review‘This is an outstanding collection of contributions from some of the most highly-respected researchers in the field of microfinance. It provides an excellent overview of the evidence on the success and limitations of microfinance and addresses important topics such as gender and finance, digital finance, and financial literacy. A must-read for anyone interested in microfinance.’ -- Niels Hermes, University of Groningen, the Netherlands‘An impressive collection of articles on many important aspects of microfinance; written by experts in the field and providing a unique and comprehensive overview of where microfinance stands in the 2020s.’ -- Thorsten Beck, European University Institute, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Overview of microfinance, financial inclusion, and development 2 Robert Cull and Valentina Hartarska PART II CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS FOR MICROFINANCE, FINANCIAL INCLUSION, AND DEVELOPMENT 2 Rethinking poverty, household finance, and microfinance 21 Jonathan Morduch 3 Assessment of microfinance institutions and their impact: evidence from a scientometric study 41 Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto and Carlos Serrano-Cinca 4 Financial inclusion and gender 66 Isabelle Guérin 5 Toward a theory of fair interest rates on microcredit: balancing the needs of clients and institutions 83 Marek Hudon and Joakim Sandberg 6 Resilience in emergencies, savings, and credit 99 Saniya Ansar, Jake Hess, and Leora Klapper 7 When is financial education successful? Taking stock of the new wave of field evidence 119 Bilal Zia PART III DELIVERING FINANCIAL SERVICES TO CLIENTS 8 Group lending in theory and practice 135 Christian Ahlin and Godwin Debrah 9 Alternative delivery channels and impacts: agent banking 150 Sinja Buri, Robert Cull, and Xavier Giné 10 Digital financial inclusion and development 164 Greta Bull and Leora Klapper 11 Building inclusive value chains for smallholders: the role of finance 181 Alan de Brauw and Johan Swinnen 12 Index insurance for developing countries: a primer 194 Mario J. Miranda and Denis Nadolnyak PART IV VIEW FROM PRACTITIONERS AND FUNDERS 13 Measuring the evolution of client vulnerability: innovation at the BBVA Microfinance Foundation 212 Claudio Gonzalez-Vega, Laura Mo, and Giovanni di Placido 14 An investor’s perspective on measuring and managing social performance and impact 248 Gregor Dorfleitner, Dina Pons, and Noémie Renier PART V EVIDENCE FROM REGIONS AND COUNTRIES 15 Financial inclusion in high-income countries: gender gap or poverty trap? 272 Anastasia Cozarenco and Ariane Szafarz 16 Financial literacy and the use of financial services by US households 297 James R. Barth, Valentina Hartarska, Jitka Hilliard, and Nguyen Nguyen 17 Financial inclusion, microfinance, and financial education in Latin America 316 Alejandro Javier Micco Aguayo and Patricio Andrés Valenzuela Aros 18 Gender and financial inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean 339 Victor Motta 19 Inclusive finance and agricultural development in Africa 357 Calum G. Turvey and Apurba Shee 20 Evaluating digital financial inclusion: a Kenyan perspective on morality and finance 383 Susan Johnson and Silvia Storchi 21 Inclusive finance and inclusive rural transformation in China 402 Calum G. Turvey 22 Does microfinance cause banking sector development and economic growth? An application to Mongolia 425 Batkhuyag Myagmar, Robert Lensink, and Wim Heijman 23 Financial inclusion and poverty: evidence from Armenia 449 Aleksandr Grigoryan, Knar Khachatryan, Knarik Ayvazyan, and Pundarik Mukhopadhaya Index 467

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Book SynopsisThis timely book documents and analyses the seriousness of growing national inequality in different regions around the world. It argues that the treatment of inequality in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is wholly insufficient due to their failure to recognise the growing difference between the income of work and the income of capital and the super rich, and the strain this places on a country's social fabric. Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality provides a critical view on how inequality is dealt with in the process of setting global goals. It reviews the development of inequality globally and the various processes leading up to formulation of the SDGs. With chapters from top researchers on inequality and development economics it provides a strong and unique intellectual basis for a more prominent treatment of inequality in the follow up process to the SDGs. Combining a global perspective and in-depth regional analysis, this book will be of interest to students and academics in sustainable development, social policy and development economics.Contributors include: T. Addison, A. Cornia, P. Edward, R. Jolly, M. Luebker, D. Nayyar, A. Sumner, P.A.G. van Bergeijk, R. van der Hoeven, J. Vandemoortele, R. VosTrade Review'The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations have set the most ambitious development agenda in history. For the first time, income inequality was included as a specific goal, and one that is essential to stem one of the worst trends that the world has been experiencing in recent decades. Ambitious political efforts will be needed to reverse this trend because without equality the inclusive and transformative development that the SDGs have set cannot be achieved. Providing accessible analysis and evidence-based policy advice, Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality is a must read for development researchers and practitioners, politicians and concerned citizens alike.' --Jose Antonio Ocampo, Member of the Central Bank Board of Colombia, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs'Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality is a timely book. It discusses causes and consequences of the unprecedented rise of income inequality, and especially functional income inequality, over the last twenty years in developing countries. It demonstrates that the Sustainable Development Goals adopted in 2015, though acknowledging the inequality problem, provide only weak recommendations to stem this growing inequality. In this easily accessible book, well-known scholars thoroughly analyse and discuss policy alternatives for a more equal and transformative development process and portray what citizens and governments can do to achieve that.' --Thandika Mkandawire, London School of Economics, former Director, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)'This book puts the post-2015 sustainable development agenda in thought-provoking perspective. The two editors and an expert group of leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of economic development take the reader on a most stimulating voyage into the realm of the MDGs and the SDGs. They pointedly ask whether the SDGs have the potential to address the thorny issues of inclusiveness in implementation, manageability, appropriate measurement and financial planning. The book departs from the need for transformative development and zooms in on the vast challenge of income inequality. A timely and much-needed contribution.' --Finn Tarp, Director, UNU-WIDERTable of ContentsContents: 1. The challenge to reduce income inequality (introduction and overview) Peter A.G. van Bergeijk and Rolph van der Hoeven 2. Broadening the development agenda for the SDG world Richard Jolly 3. From MDGs to SDGs: critical reflections on global targets and their measurement Jan Vandemoortele 4. From billions to trillions: towards reform of development finance and the global reserve system Rob Vos 5. Global inequality and global poverty since the Cold War: how robust is the optimistic narrative? Peter Edward and Andy Sumner 6. Is Latin America’s recent inequality decline permanent or temporary? Giovanni Andrea Cornia 7. Thirty years in Africa’s development: from structural adjustment to structural transformation? Tony Addison 8. Poverty, employment and inequality in the SDGs: heterodox discourse, orthodox policies? Malte Luebker 9. Can catch up reduce inequality? Deepak Nayyar 10. Can the SDGs stem rising income inequality in the world? Rolph van der Hoeven Index

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Book SynopsisInequality is back on the academic and political agenda. This book considers the extent and impact of social protection - including social assistance, social insurance, universal allowances and mandates - on inequality. The author illustrates how effectively designed and implemented forms of social protection can make significant contributions to reducing inequalities, promoting egalitarian ideals and achieving social justice. Critical and incisive, this book is essential reading for students and academics studying social protection and inequality. It will also be of interest to scholars in social policy, international social welfare and development studies, as well as practitioners and professionals in government and international agencies.Trade Review‘James Midgley provides a very helpful and insightful overview of the field of social protection.... A strength of this book is the wide scope that the author takes. Oftentimes books dealing with the social welfare state and safety net programs focus on either the OECD countries or the Global South. Midgley is adept at covering both. By doing so, the reader gains considerable insight into the differences and similarities across countries in attempting to protect their citizens from economic hardship and vulnerability.’ -- Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare‘This text is central to understanding how social protection can promote equality by using the intervention of the state in designing egalitarian policies as well as by international organisations reflecting on their own impact on inequality. This book is aimed at academics, policymakers and professionals looking for viable strategies connecting power and resources of the state to promote social justice in western countries and the Global South.’ -- Lorena Ossio Bustillos, European Journal of Social Security‘This book, by a renowned scholar in the social policy field, is a welcome addition to the literature. It provides a thorough analysis of some key issues. The fact that so much of the social policy literature adopts a narrow national approach makes the global focus of this book quite a breath of fresh air. There is also a good balance of historical overview and contemporary analysis. I enjoyed reading this book and my hope that it will not only be of help to students of social policy, political theory, sociology and social work in appreciating the significance of inequality, social protection and social justice, but also be of value to campaigners, activists, policy developers and others in seeking to create and sustain a more determined effort to tackle inequality and the social ills it so fully contributes to.’ -- Neil Thompson, International Journal of Social Welfare'The issue of inequality has returned to global agendas. James Midgley, the doyen of global social policy research, insists that social protection has a role to play in tackling inequality. He sets out an agenda of institutional reform that revitalizes the egalitarian claim of social protection, but stays away from simple cure-all solutions.' --Lutz Leisering, Bielefeld University, Germany'This volume is an important and timely contribution to the scholarship and policy debates on inequality and the role of state supported social protection schemes in mitigating it. Midgely's engaging and lucid text provides an integrated and comprehensive overview of real world programmes and evidence of their redistributive impact, while retaining historical and conceptual perspectives. In contrast to much of the literature in this area, the cases presented in this text come from both the global North and South and a more pluralistic account of social protection is provided which transcends traditional western notions of insurance, income transfers and credits. The text will be accessible and relevant for a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and an invaluable resource for all those interested in comparative social welfare.' --Rebecca Surender, University of Oxford, UK'This book makes a critically important contribution to the literature on inequality and on social policy What the reader learns from this superb study is that careful policy design, adequate funding and effective implementation are needed to ensure that social policies are effective in promoting equality and social justice. This work is yet another confirmation that Professor Midgley is among the most distinguished social policy scholars of our time and that social policy has a role in the establishment of societies that are more just and equitable.' --Silvia Borzutzky, Carnegie Mellon University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Part I: Understanding and Addressing Inequality 1. Defining Inequality 2. The Dynamics of Inequality 3. Addressing Inequality Part II: Social Protection and Its Global Impact 4. Features of Social Protection 5. The Historical Evolution of Social Protection 6. Social Protection Goals and Impact Part III: Social Protection and Social Justice 7. Social Protection and Redistribution 8. Towards Egalitiarian Social Protection References Index

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Book SynopsisThis incisive Handbook critically examines the role and place of media and communication in development and social change, reflecting a vision for change anchored in values of social justice. Expert contributors discuss and evaluate the roles and outcomes of media and communication for social mobilization, media mobilization, community mobilization, advocacy, participation, empowerment, capacity-building, resistance, networking, and action for progressive social change.Chapters explore communicative actions involved in social, economic, political, and cultural integration and the transformation of individuals, communities, places, and societies in the processes of development and social change. Outlining the genealogy and history of the field, the Handbook investigates the possible new directions and objectives in the area. Key conclusions include an enhanced role for development communication in participatory development, active agency of stakeholders of development programs, and the operationalization of social justice in development.Comprehensive yet accessible, this Handbook will be a key resource for students and scholars of media and communication, political science, development studies, social work, critical education, community organization, and anthropology. It will also be of value to professionals working in associations and organizations dealing with development and social change.Trade Review'When two of the leading scholars in the field come together to edit a Handbook, the result, as expected, is this valuable resource. It is a comprehensive volume that brings together different theoretical, methodological, and conceptual traditions for advocacy, mobilization, engagement, and empowerment, through a holistic understanding of culture-specific communicative actions, tools, and approaches. This Handbook is a must have reference for all students, teachers, scholars, consultants, and practitioners in this discipline.' -- Sundeep Muppidi, University of Hartford, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Communication in development and social change: a genealogy of the field 1 Srinivas Raj Melkote and Arvind Singhal PART I BROAD CONCEPTUAL, THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND PROGRAMMATIC ISSUES 2 Communication for development through dialogue, deliberation and civic media: how deliberative democracy and civic capital support social justice 15 Elesha L. Ruminski, Justin Reedy and Laura W. Black 3 Media and public communication for social mobilization toward social justice: a review of the capabilities approach 40 Tom Jacobson 4 Emerging issues in post-development and development communication for social justice: critical analysis of power, local place and networks 59 Aman Luthra and Clayton Rosati 5 Communication and development: Participatory Action Research and praxis for social justice 83 Srinivas Raj Melkote and H. Leslie Steeves 6 Culture-centered approach to communication for social change 100 Mohan J. Dutta, Pooja Jayan and Christine Elers 7 Participatory Communication for Social Change 120 Lisa Servaes and Jan Servaes 8 Participatory communication and action for a sustainable environment 142 Elske van de Fliert 9 Endogenous wisdom in action—the positive deviance approach: an alternative conceptualization of communication and social change praxis 154 Arvind Singhal, Monique Sternin, Shafique Muhammad and Lucía Durá 10 Advocacy communication for social justice 172 Karin G. Wilkins and Michael D. Kim 11 Community radio for social change: restoring decentralized democratic discursive spaces 189 Vinod Pavarala and Kanchan K. Malik 12 Multidimensional model for change: a comprehensive C4D-based framework for sustainable development 212 Paolo Mefalopulos 13 Putting people first: participatory development communication and sustainable development in agriculture and natural resource management 232 Guy Bessette 14 Health communication research and practice for progressive social change: a case study of COVID-19 244 Pradeep Krishnatray, Srinivas Melkote and H. Leslie Steeves 15 Building capacity in communication for development and health promotion 261 Rafael Obregón and Charlotte Lapsansky PART II COMMUNITY AND MEDIA MOBILIZATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE 16 Participatory and intersectionality approaches for gender equity and maternal health promotion in sub-Saharan Africa 284 Emrakeb A. Woldearegay, Elinam Amevor and H. Leslie Steeves 17 Transforming gender norms through communication: Minga Perú’s communicative actions in the Amazon 301 Ami Sengupta and Arvind Singhal 18 The dialectical praxis of organizing for social change in digital hashtag movements: #MeToo and the Kavanaugh hearings 321 Wendy H. Papa, Michael J. Papa and Tisha Dejmanee 19 Communication design and co-creation of information solutions for sustainable social change at the margins 339 Uttaran Dutta 20 Experiences in feminist movement building in South Africa 358 Shereen Usdin, Ntombohlanga Mqushulu, Lebohang Letsela, Mari Lotvonen and Matokgo Makutoane PART III CONCLUSION 21 Communication for development and social change: reflections from theory and practice 375 Srinivas Raj Melkote and Arvind Singhal Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book focuses on the upgrading of firms within the global garment industry, examining how garment manufacturers and retailers in different countries internationalize, develop their capabilities and enhance their sustainability. It highlights the important role the global garments industry plays in the socio-economic development and environmental outcomes of emerging economies.Drawing on firm-centric, multi-level analyses, the book addresses four key questions: how do apparel manufacturing companies in emerging economies internationalize? What factors promote or hinder internationalization? What influences the abilities of suppliers to develop different capabilities? How do firms achieve sustainability? Interdisciplinary contributions draw on a range of perspectives, including global value chains, international business, operations management, innovation, and sociology, to answer these questions. Providing novel insights to the topic, this book will help firms, researchers and national and multilateral organisations improve the competitiveness of suppliers, workers' well-being and environmental outcomes. It will be particularly useful to business economics and economic geography scholars.

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides readers with an expert overview of the key theoretical approaches to governance and development, covering a broad range of policy areas and domains. Utilising a critical approach to assess issues from a multidisciplinary perspective, the contributions in this Handbook review different social contexts and policy areas, governance arrangements, and processes relating to issues of development. Chapters illustrate at global, regional and national levels how the specific forms of governance impact development and how ongoing trends of development can influence governance concerns. Further insights are also offered regarding the functioning of the state and the transformation of the role of the state in modern society, illustrating the place for governance in future development policies. Researchers in governance and development will find this comprehensive Handbook an excellent resource for their area of specialisation, and scholars in governance, political science, social sciences and economics will be provided with a useful entry point into the literature. Practitioners will also welcome this as an informative read for updating their knowledge and accessing the latest research findings.Trade Review‘Governance has been a leading concept in academic and policy research on politics and development for a quarter century. This Handbook is a befitting marker of its evolution during this period. The editors bring together an impressive range of scholars from across the world to discuss the multiple contexts in which governance has been applied to highlight the ways societies are managed through the interaction between citizens and their public authorities. Specific issues include how governance relates to policymaking, human rights, state formation, and international development cooperation. The book is an invaluable source for researchers, teachers, and students of the complex relations between politics and development.’ -- Göran Hydén, University of Florida, US‘Governance is a perennial concern, development a “wicked problem”. This Handbook is a valuable collection that explores and exposes the intricacies and interconnecting dynamics of governance and development to provide a nuanced and detailed understanding for students and scholars alike. The Handbook brings together many of the most acclaimed international scholars – genuinely from all corners of the world – to give critical insight into some of the world’s most pressing problems and how states attempt to contain and govern them.’ -- Diane Stone, European University Institute, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiii 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Governance and Development 1 Wil Hout and Jane Hutchison PART I THEORIZING GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT 2 Liberal approaches to governance and development 14 David Williams 3 New institutionalist approaches to governance: contesting complementarities 28 Karim Knio 4 Decoloniality, governance and development 45 Rosalba Icaza PART II GOVERNANCE, THE STATE AND STATE TRANSFORMATION 5 Globalization, state transformation and global governance 64 Shahar Hameiri and Lee Jones 6 Political systems: the rise and fall of democracies and dictatorships 78 Renske Doorenspleet 7 The renaissance of the developmental state in the age of post-neoliberalism 97 Jewellord Nem Singh 8 The regulatory state under pressure 115 Bronwen Morgan 9 Marketization as governance and development 130 Toby Carroll and Darryl S.L. Jarvis 10 Neopatrimonialism: a critical assessment 145 Christian von Soest 11 The rule of law, governance and development 160 Nandini Ramanujam and Francesca Farrington 12 Governance and state fragility: a comparative analysis of Sub-Saharan African countries 179 Paulos C. Tsegaw 13 Corruption and anticorruption: Uganda and South Africa as positive outliers in governance reforms? 196 Heather Marquette and Caryn Peiffer PART III GOVERNANCE, SOCIETY AND POLICY 14 Sustainable development, climate change and planetary justice: governance challenges 212 Joyeeta Gupta and Klaudia Prodani 15 Poverty, inequality and governance: a global perspective 230 Augustin Kwasi Fosu and Dede Woade Gafa 16 Civil society, governance and development 249 Kees Biekart 17 Governance for sustainable development: a human rights perspective 265 Karin Arts and Daphina Misiedjan 18 Gender and feminist transformative development 279 Jane Hutchison and Lian Sinclair 19 Governance of extractive industries 294 Pascale Hatcher and Etienne Roy Grégoire 20 Peacebuilding, governance and development 308 Caroline Hughes PART IV DEVELOPMENT ACTORS AND GOVERNANCE REFORM 21 Development cooperation policies and governance 323 Wil Hout and Nadia Molenaers 22 UNDP and the democratic governance agenda 340 Shabbir Cheema 23 Emerging powers, governance and development 356 Marin Ferry and Haley J. Swedlund Index

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Book SynopsisDeveloping Societies in a Changing World offers students a concise and accessible exploration of our developing and developed world. Readers learn about the origins of development, modernity, globalisation, population dynamics and the increasingly interconnected nature of our world with the environment and how these connections influence our daily lives.The opening chapters present students with basic concepts and empirical findings regarding development and the organisation of the developed and developing world. The following chapters provide a chronological sequence of capitalist world development, beginning with the advent of colonialism, the rise of modern nation-states, and modern economies that formed the post-colonial era. The influence of modernity on prosperity and poverty leads into an overview of globalisation and into the current restructuring of the global economy known as multipolar globalisation. Students are also exposed to the dynamic relationship between population growth and well-being. The concluding chapter provides a detailed and comprehensive assessment of climate change, ranging from climate physics and social impacts to international policy efforts and ends with a close examination of proposed solutions to the planetary crisis.The second edition features content changes in every chapter to bring the material up to date. New topics addressed include zoonosis and COVID-19, the social impacts of COVID-19, the Sustainable Development agenda (2015-2030), state-building in Africa, patronage in Cambodia, resettlement in Tanzania, autocratic governance, and democratic internationalism. In particular, the concluding chapter has been significantly revised to reflect the growing magnitude of climate change and intertwined social impacts. The volume concludes with a twofold examination that contrasts market and technological strategies for addressing climate change with that of the climate justice movement.Designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the world and the environment that shapes it, Developing Societies in a Changing World is ideal for introductory courses with focus on developing societies and globalisation.

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Book SynopsisThe Elgar Encyclopedia of Development is a ground-breaking resource that provides a starting point for those wishing to grasp how and why development occurs, while also providing further expansion appropriate for more experienced academics.With concise explorations of over 130 key terms, events, actors, theories, practices, agencies, and policies in the field, this Encyclopedia introduces a broader viewpoint to the ever-evolving discipline of development studies. Entries act as helpful references that clarify key subjects, identify influential literature and highlight correct practitioner procedure.Key Features: Interdisciplinary and international analysis of development Succinct and accessible entries that illustrate significant historical shifts Authored by experts and emerging leaders in contemporary areas of study such as rising powers and green economies Addresses core development issues such as child labour, class, food security, poverty, sustainability and urban development This essential Encyclopedia will be an important reference for students and scholars pursuing disciplines such as development economics, international politics, development studies and social policy. Development practitioners looking to improve existing practices will additionally benefit from its theoretical foundations and historical trajectories of important events.Table of ContentsList of contributors x An introduction to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Development 1 Matthew Clarke and Xinyu (Andy) Zhao 1 Absolute poverty 4 Andy Sumner 2 Advocacy 7 Margit van Wessel 3 Affordable housing 12 Carolyn Whitzman 4 Agrarian change and rural development 15 Cristóbal Kay 5 Aid modality 20 B. Ouattara 6 Amartya Sen 24 Lawrence Hamilton 7 Andre Gunder Frank 29 Sing C. Chew 8 Animal capital 36 Dinesh Wadiwel 9 Art and development 41 Polly Stupples 10 Artificial intelligence and development 46 Matthew L. Smith and Ruhiya Kristine Seward 11 Arturo Escobar 52 Kiran Asher 12 Bandung and decolonization 55 Narendran Kumarakulasingam 13 Basic needs approach 59 Kenneth A. Reinert 14 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 64 Bernice Yanful and Anne-Emanuelle Birn 15 Bretton Woods 70 Laurissa Mühlich 16 BRICS 74 Deborah Barros Leal Farias 17 Chandra Talpade Mohanty 77 Chizu Sato 18 Child labour 83 Dev Nathan 19 Citizen aid 88 Anne-Meike Fechter 20 Civil society and development 90 Jude Howell 21 Class 95 Jonathan Pattenden 22 Communication for development 100 Valentina Baú 23 Community capacity-building 104 Gary Craig 24 Community development 110 Gary Craig 25 Conflict sensitivity and do no harm 116 Anthony Ware 26 Corporate social responsibility 120 Paul Alexander Haslam 27 Corruption and development 125 Alina Mungiu-Pippidi 28 Culture and development 129 Keith Nurse 29 Customary law 137 Sandra F. Joireman 30 Data justice 141 Richard Heeks 31 Debt 145 Bruno Bonizzi and Christina Laskaridis 32 Decent work 150 Kanchana Ruwanpura 33 Degrowth 155 Federico Demaria 34 Dependency theory 161 Wil Hout 35 Developing countries 166 Deborah Barros Leal Farias 36 Development and racial hierarchy 169 Kamna Patel 37 Development ethics 173 Jay Drydyk 38 Developmental state 180 Yin-wah Chu 39 Digital citizenship 185 Jiajie Lu 40 Digital inclusion 188 Amber Marshall 41 Disability and development 192 Shaun Grech 42 Disaster and development 197 Jeroen Warner 43 Domestic violence and development 203 Nata Duvvury 44 Early childhood development 208 Deborah A. Phillips 45 Education and development 214 Simon McGrath 46 Energy and development 219 David I. Stern 47 Ester Boserup 224 Marina Fischer-Kowalski 48 Everyday peace 228 Anthony Ware 49 Faith-based organizations 234 Marie Juul Petersen 50 Finance and development 241 Rashmi Arora 51 Financial inclusion 247 Mandira Sarma 52 Food regimes 251 Philip McMichael 53 Food security 259 C. Peter Timmer 54 Forced migration 264 Naohiko Omata 55 Foreign direct investment 268 Rajneesh Narula and André Pineli 56 Gender and development 272 Gouthami 57 Gender and intersectionality 277 Tanja Bastia 58 Geography and the world’s development divides 279 Marcin Wojciech Solarz 59 Global governance 286 Roni Kay O’Dell 60 Global North–South 291 Jean-Philippe Thérien 61 Global value chains and economic development 296 David Dollar 62 Globalization and development 299 Kenneth A. Reinert 63 Good governance 304 Anis Chowdhury 64 Green economy 309 Kirstie O’Neill 65 Health system 314 Michael Anderson and Elias Mossialos 66 Heritage and development 320 Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach 67 Human development approach 324 Alexandra Fortacz and Sabina Alkire 68 Human Development Index 332 Mark McGillivray 69 Human trafficking and slavery 337 James Cockayne 70 Humanitarian aid 342 Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings 71 Immanuel Wallerstein 347 Chamsy el-Ojeili 72 Inclusive research 352 Melanie Nind 73 Indigenous peoples and development 355 Janet Hunt 74 Infrastructure and economic development 361 Dan Biller 75 International child sponsorship 368 Brad Watson 76 International Monetary Fund and the World Bank 374 Dane Rowlands 77 International trade and economic development 379 Saibal Kar 78 International volunteering 381 Susanne Schech 79 Internet governance 386 Francesca Musiani 80 Labour migration 391 Sylvia Ang 81 Land governance 394 Stig Enemark 82 Land grabs 399 Kiah Smith 83 Localization 404 Kristina Roepstorff 84 MDGs and SDGs 408 85 Mining 412 Jeannette Graulau 86 Modernization 417 Corinna R. Unger 87 Multispecies climate justice 422 Yamini Narayanan 88 Multispecies poverty politics 426 Yamini Narayanan 89 Neoliberalism 429 Nichole Georgeou and Charles Hawksley 90 Open development 435 Ruhiya Kristine Seward and Matthew L. Smith 91 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 441 Matthias Schmelzer 92 Oxfam 446 Chris Roche 93 Participatory development 451 Anthony Ware 94 Pastoralism 455 John Morton 95 Plan International 460 Karin Arts 96 Pollution 465 Andrew Farmer 97 Population and development 468 Tim Dyson 98 Postcapitalism 473 Tuomo Alhojärvi, Isaac Lyne, Pryor Placino, Katharine McKinnon and the Community Economies Collective 99 Postdevelopment 479 Samantha Balaton-Chrimes 100 Post-neoliberalism 482 Tobias Boos and Ulrich Brand 101 Poverty measurement 489 Sharon Bessell 102 Queer development studies 494 Corinne L. Mason 103 Religion and development 497 Séverine Deneulin 104 Resilience 502 Isaac Lyne, Ann Hill, Elizabeth Barron, Alison Guzman and Ignacio Krell 105 Right to development 507 Anthony Ware 106 Rights-based approach to development 512 Anthony Ware 107 Rising powers 518 Stephan Klingebiel 108 Rural–urban migration 523 Xinjie Shi and Bingyu Huangfu 109 Save the Children 528 Karin Arts 110 Sexual and reproductive health and rights 532 Nate Henderson 111 Slow city 536 Heike Mayer and Paul L. Knox 112 Social enterprise 538 Isaac Lyne 113 Social protection 544 Keetie Roelen 114 Socialist ecofeminism 547 Ana Isla 115 South–South cooperation 553 Thomas Muhr 116 Stages of growth 559 Rashmi Arora 117 State fragility 563 Nematullah Bizhan 118 Subjective well-being 566 Sefa Awaworyi Churchill and Russell Smyth 119 Sustainable development 569 Mark Diesendorf 120 Sustainable livelihoods 575 Kiah Smith 121 Sylvia Chant 580 Cathy McIlwaine 122 The Belt and Road Initiative 583 Jing Gu 123 The humanitarian– development nexus 588 Jon Harald Sande Lie 124 The migration–development nexus 593 Ronald Skeldon and Tanja Bastia 125 The World Commission on Environment and Development 598 Iris Borowy 126 Tourism and development 603 David J. Telfer 127 Trade and poverty 609 Paul Brenton 128 Urban planning 613 Patrick Brandful Cobbinah 129 Waste management and development 618 Sonia Maria Dias 130 Women and development 623 Lourdes Beneria 131 World-systems theory 628 Christopher Chase-Dunn 132 World Trade Organization 631 Kalim Siddiqui

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Tourism is integral to local, regional and national development policies; as a major global economic sector, it has the potential to underpin economic growth and wider development. Yet, transformations in both the nature of tourism and the dynamic environment within which it occurs give rise to new questions with regards to its developmental role. This Research Agenda offers a state-of-the-art review of the research into the tourism-development nexus. Bringing together contributors from across the globe, this Research Agenda answers the key questions including: Are growth-focused tourism policies becoming increasingly detrimental to destination development? Can mass forms of tourism in fact generate more benefits than alternative forms of tourism? Does the role of the state in supporting tourism-induced development require reconsideration? How effective is tourism-related philanthropy in contributing to development? Is community-based tourism a realistic development policy? To what extent can tourism contribute to what is still the most pressing development challenge, namely poverty reduction? A Research Agenda for Tourism and Development offers valuable insights for students and researchers of development studies and tourism, as well as for policymakers and practitioners in tourism industries.Trade Review‘The book serves as a valuable guide for graduate students and scholars from different disciplines and contexts to contribute to comprehensive knowledge and understanding on tourism and development by situating tourism in a broader global development agenda, and contributes to efforts for better rebuilding tourism.’ -- Bengi Ertuna, Journal of Qualitative Research in TourismTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: tourism and development – towards a research agenda Richard Sharpley and David Harrison 2. A policy research agenda for tourism and development Dianne Dredge 3. The tourism-development nexus from a governance perspective: a research agenda Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong 4. NGOs, tourism and development Helene Balslev Clausen 5. Travel philanthropy and development Amy Scarth and Marina Novelli 6. Tourism and Poverty David Harrison and Stephen Pratt 7. Community-based tourism and ‘development’ Tazim Jamal, Christine Budke and Ingrid Barradas-Bribiesca 8. Tourism, development and the consumption of tourism Richard Sharpley 9. Now everyone can sail: on the need to understand mass tourism Julio Aramberri 10. A sustainable hospitality and tourism workforce research agenda – exploring the past to create a vision for the future Shelagh Mooney and Tom Baum 11. Tourism and (re)development in developed nations David J. Telfer Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This stimulating and accessible Advanced Introduction critically engages with dominant, modernist, and ahistorical narratives of development, foregrounding the overlooked dissonant discourses that are largely written out of mainstream development. It argues that development discourse and practice must remain aware of how historically unequal relations continue to be reproduced today and outlines a range of effective strategies for guiding change towards achieving global social justice.Features include: challenges to the claims of universality evident in much development scholarship exposure of critical discourses overlooked by conventional development histories identification of progressive ways to guide change towards achieving global social justice guidance on development approaches and ideas that avoid reproducing colonial forms of representation, knowledge, power, and control the foregrounding of critical postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist perspectives to identify how progressive possibilities for change can emerge. This insightful Advanced Introduction will be beneficial to students and scholars of development studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, history, and indigenous studies seeking an understanding of unequal global relations, knowledge production, and the exercise of global power and control. Further, it will be of great value to academics and students interested in postcolonialism, contemporary colonial legacies, and processes of decolonisation and decoloniality.Trade Review‘Insisting on how much and little has changed, this book dwells simultaneously in the past, present, and future of development discourse and practice. The immediacy and longevity of the insights it provides are devastating and liberatory. Read it and respond.’ -- Lisa Palmer, University of Melbourne, Australia‘This is a text that manages to be pacy and accessible, while staying founded in deep scholarship on the long history and current state of ‘development’. As well as explanation and critique, the book finishes with important ideas about how to make things work better.’ -- Emma Mawdsley, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: the development landscape 2. Mainstream development histories and ideas 3. Borders, boundaries, and classifications 4. Critically (re)thinking development 5. Promises of development: employment, health, and education 6. Migration and mobilities 7. Degradation and sustainability 8. Towards solidarity, decoloniality, and building the pluriverse References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This stimulating and accessible Advanced Introduction critically engages with dominant, modernist, and ahistorical narratives of development, foregrounding the overlooked dissonant discourses that are largely written out of mainstream development. It argues that development discourse and practice must remain aware of how historically unequal relations continue to be reproduced today and outlines a range of effective strategies for guiding change towards achieving global social justice.Features include: challenges to the claims of universality evident in much development scholarship exposure of critical discourses overlooked by conventional development histories identification of progressive ways to guide change towards achieving global social justice guidance on development approaches and ideas that avoid reproducing colonial forms of representation, knowledge, power, and control the foregrounding of critical postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist perspectives to identify how progressive possibilities for change can emerge. This insightful Advanced Introduction will be beneficial to students and scholars of development studies, geography, sociology, anthropology, history, and indigenous studies seeking an understanding of unequal global relations, knowledge production, and the exercise of global power and control. Further, it will be of great value to academics and students interested in postcolonialism, contemporary colonial legacies, and processes of decolonisation and decoloniality.Trade Review‘Insisting on how much and little has changed, this book dwells simultaneously in the past, present, and future of development discourse and practice. The immediacy and longevity of the insights it provides are devastating and liberatory. Read it and respond.’ -- Lisa Palmer, University of Melbourne, Australia‘This is a text that manages to be pacy and accessible, while staying founded in deep scholarship on the long history and current state of ‘development’. As well as explanation and critique, the book finishes with important ideas about how to make things work better.’ -- Emma Mawdsley, University of Cambridge, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: the development landscape 2. Mainstream development histories and ideas 3. Borders, boundaries, and classifications 4. Critically (re)thinking development 5. Promises of development: employment, health, and education 6. Migration and mobilities 7. Degradation and sustainability 8. Towards solidarity, decoloniality, and building the pluriverse References Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of research methods and techniques in data collection. It also outlines data collection challenges that are commonly faced when working in the field.Authors address key strategies to tackle the major challenges to fieldwork, including advice on using indigenous or innovative skills and making intelligent use of the advantages already available within standard research methodologies. International contributors provide a hands-on account of research methodologies as applied in the field, with particular focus on research ethics and community culture and interactions. The book offers a number of useful case studies, featuring examples of the application of research techniques in different cultural and socio-economic contexts.Utilizing an innovative and dynamic ‘storytelling’ method, this book will be a useful research tool for fieldworkers engaging in social science research in community settings, as well as students in the field learning the core techniques of fieldwork.Trade Review‘Occasionally, a particularly insightful work is published with much potential for fostering improved learning and application. This is such a book. The Field Guide offers vital guidance on conducting fieldwork across contexts for community-based work. I consider this essential reading for anyone involved in identifying community issues and potential solutions.’Table of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Field guide for research in community settings: tools, methods, challenges and strategies 1 M. Rezaul Islam, Niaz Ahmed Khan, Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah, Haris Abd Wahab and Mashitah Binti Hamidi 2 Challenges and solutions for collecting data in health research: experiences of Australian doctoral and early career researchers 11 Mohammad Hamiduzzaman, Alan Taylor, Belinda Lunnay, Abraham Kuot, Hannah Wechkunanukul, Omar Smadi, Heath Pillen and Fathimath Shifaza 3 Challenges with opening up closed off communities: interviewing ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Israel 25 Veronika Poniscjakova 4 Ethnography research with Indonesian female factory workers: challenges and strategies in the field 34 Mashitah Binti Hamidi 5 “How can you be so naïve?” Negotiating insider status among co-ethnic migrants in global ethnographic fieldwork 50 Hasan Mahmud 6 Challenges and opportunities in conducting cross-country PhD study: experiences of data collection in India and China 66 Rajendra Baikady 7 Researching the garment sector in Bangladesh: fieldwork challenges and responses 75 Sawlat Zaman 8 Gaining access to research participants for data collection in doctoral studies: evidence from a rural area of Bangladesh 85 Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury, M. Rezaul Islam and Haris Abd Wahab 9 The challenges and strategies of accessing hard to reach locations during fieldwork data collection: the case of northeast Nigeria 101 Nasa’i Muhammad Gwadabe and Adekunle Daoud Balogun 10 Data collection on ‘smartphone addiction and social capital effects’ among the university students of Bangladesh: challenges and strategies for the way out 110 Ashek Mahmud, M. Rezaul Islam and Hamedi M. Adnan 11 Undercover fieldwork: a queer experience of healthcare in Bangladesh 123 Kanamik Kani Khan 12 Ethical issues, challenges and solutions during fieldwork with homeless elderly people of Malaysia and Pakistan 138 Aqsa Qandeel and Welyne J. Jehom 13 Field research in the conflict zone: an empirical study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh 154 Md. Rafiqul Islam 14 Research with coastal people in Bangladesh: challenges and way forward 167 Taj Sultana, Firuza Begham Binti Mustafa, Jillian Ooi Lean Sim and M. Rezaul Islam 15 Data collection from the Santal community: a journey towards an unknown world in ascertaining the nexus between reality and dream 178 Munira Jahan Sumi, M. Rezaul Islam and Ramy Bulan 16 Challenges in accessing rural area and managing sub-culture differences in Kuala Krai, Kelantan, Malaysia 194 Maria Binti Mohd Ismail and Raja Noriza Binti Raja Ariffin 17 Fieldwork experience: challenges and managing risks as a female researcher 201 Bushra Zaman, M. Rezaul Islam and Rosila Bee Mohd Hussain 18 Data collection on acid attack survivor women: a PhD researcher’s experience from Bangladesh 211 Tahmina Islam, M. Rezaul Islam and Siti Hajar Abu Bakar Ah 19 Challenges, strategies, and way out techniques in conducting in-depth interviews among managers in Malaysian organizations 221 Nafisa Kasem, Shahreen Mat Nayan, Kumaran A/l Suberamanian and Sedigheh Moghavvemi Index

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook provides an in-depth discussion on doing cross-cultural research more ethically, sensibly and responsibly with diverse groups of people around the globe. It focuses on cross-cultural research in the social sciences where researchers who are often from Western, educated and rich backgrounds are conducting research with individuals from different socio-cultural settings that are often non-Western, illiterate and poor.Covering both theoretical perspectives as well as practical ways to conduct research in cross-cultural settings, the contributors explore research work across Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America. Chapters provide keen insights into Indigenous research methods and approaches to cross-cultural research with a range of different groups of Indigenous peoples, highlighting the ethical and methodological challenges for researchers conducting cross-cultural research. Top scholars in the field suggest practical tips and information on lessons they have learnt to make this a useful tool kit for early-career researchers and students.This will be a critical read for students of development studies, transnational studies and anthropology who are interested in pursuing cross-cultural research in diverse settings. It is also an invigorating read for researchers who conduct cross-cultural research as well as those who work with people from ethnic minorities and refugees.Trade Review‘The book provides an impressive and comprehensive set of views and methodological perspectives on how to be a true respectful and culturally sensitive cross-cultural researcher. Pranee Liamputtong has assembled a diverse group of contributors that include academics, field researchers and indigenous people; describing different approaches that range from community art to gardening. A must read!’ -- Maurizio Trevisan, VinUniversity, Vietnam‘This seminal book makes the critical contribution that cross-cultural research traditions are valid on and of their own. It is a major deconstruction of research approaches that privilege coloniality perspectives, challenging the predominant western research approaches and interpretations, and inviting alternative research culture values and orientations. Readers will gain new insights on the undoing of the neo-colonial polemics that inclusiveness and diversity in scholarly traditions is not just politics interfering with research practices, but that the research enterprise in the social sciences, like the personal, is political. The book makes the compelling argument that imported research traditions to cultural communities underplay or are dismissive of the real harm of coloniality to constructing authentic knowledge of and for cultural communities. This Handbook makes a clear, logical build-up to theoretical and conceptual frameworks of cross-cultural research approaches in the context of contemporary literature and elaborates on the implications of indigenist traditions for research practice, training, policy, and future directions.’ -- Elias Mpofu, University of North Texas, US; University of Sydney, Australia; and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa‘Professor Liamputtong has created a landmark work that will be essential reading for ALL researchers. This book addresses the most complex challenges we have in international research today – of equity, diversity, inclusion, indigeneity, and accessibility. A powerful and needed work for the times.’ -- Allan Kellehear, University of Vermont, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvi 1 Conducting cross-cultural research qualitatively in social science: setting the scene 1 Pranee Liamputtong PART I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS 2 Grounded ontologies: Indigenous methodologies in qualitative cross-cultural research 26 Marnee Shay, Grace Sarra and Annette Woods 3 Doing decolonial and indigenist research: a reflection 40 Lieketseng Ned, Mpoe Johannah Keikelame and Leslie Swartz 4 Kaupapa Māori research 56 Fiona Cram and Anna Adcock 5 Cultural insider–outsider: reflecting on positionality in shared and differing identities 85 Sonya Corbin Dwyer and Jennifer L. Buckle 6 Cultural sensibility in accessing participants in cross-cultural research 100 Rinchen Pelzang and Alison M. Hutchinson 7 Researcher’s refusals: ethical dilemmas, ethical practices in qualitative research. Interviews on the Thailand–Myanmar border 121 Nisha Toomey PART II QUALITATIVE CROSS-CULTURAL RESEARCH METHODS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE 8 Cross-cultural interviewing 142 Gabriele Griffin 9 Critical narrative inquiry as psychosocial accompaniment with Aboriginal communities 160 Amy Quayle and Christopher Sonn 10 Cross-lingual focus groups in cross-cultural community-based participatory research 180 Maira Quintanilha and Maria Mayan 11 Life histories and life diagrams 196 Johanna Söderström 12 The walking interview in cross-cultural research 214 Nigel Hunt and Danila D’Errico 13 Intercultural research: Aboriginal young people and the digital storytelling process as knowledge exchange 233 Fran Edmonds, Richard Chenhall and Emily Munro-Harrison 14 Body mapping: an empowering method for ethnoanatomical and ethnophysiological insights in qualitative research 256 Heather Julie Wallace 15 Ethnographic methods in cross-cultural research 273 Roseanne C. Schuster, Amber Wutich, Alexandra Brewis and Cindi SturtzSreetharan 16 Indigenising photovoice: infusing Māori cultural values into Western research methods 290 Glenis Mark and Amohia Boulton 17 Decolonising community-based participatory research: applying arts-based methods to transformative learning spaces 309 Carolyn M. Melro and Clifford T. Ballantyne 18 Cross-cultural community gardening as an Indigenist methodology: a learning ceremonial journey from a colour settler perspective 324 Ranjan Datta 19 Transnational cross-cultural research: modern challenges and solutions for field access, data collection, and analysis 335 Anson Au Index 356

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge Handbook argues for social protection to be situated in a wider system of social welfare and development programmes for low- and middle-income countries. Focusing on the role of citizens and communities in enhancing human development, it explores how welfare systems are unfolding in diverse contexts across the global South.Tracing the evolution and theory of social protection, the Handbook examines the nature, design, scope, goals and linkages of social protection and social development programmes. Case studies examine responses to the COVID-19 pandemic; the entrepreneurial character of modern social protection schemes; cash transfer schemes and the move towards cash-plus policies; and the fluidity between progression and regression of social protection. With global and regional reviews of social protection from in-country experts, the Handbook provides innovative solutions to key challenges.Bridging theoretical and empirical approaches, the Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South will prove an invaluable resource for academics and graduate students of development, social policy and sociology. Its comprehensive overview of the field will also be useful for policymakers and practitioners working on social welfare and development in the global South.Trade Review‘This Handbook is a very important contribution to further our collective understanding of social protection. Showcasing how countries, including in low-income settings, have prioritized investments and followed differentiated pathways towards the realization of the right to social protection, it reaffirms the importance of context-specific processes, political economy dynamics and innovation. And precisely because of these differentiated pathways, social protection continues to demonstrate its central role for children’s wellbeing, elimination of multidimensional child poverty, enhancing equity, preparedness and social cohesion, and critically, accelerating human development results across the life cycle in times of crises, recovery and peace.’ -- Natalia Winder-Rossi, Global Director of Social Policy and Social Protection, UNICEFTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xxi James Midgley Acknowledgements xxv List of abbreviations xxvi Introduction to the Handbook on Social Protection and Social Development in the Global South 1 Leila Patel, Sophie Plagerson and Isaac Chinyoka PART I THE NEXUS BETWEEN SOCIAL PROTECTION, SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT APPROACH 1 The social development approach to social protection and social welfare 12 Leila Patel and James Midgley 2 A social contract approach to social protection: its potential and limitations 28 Sophie Plagerson 3 The politics of social protection in the global South 44 Sarah M. Brooks PART II NATURE, SCOPE AND GOALS OF SOCIAL PROTECTION: GLOBAL AND REGIONAL OVERVIEWS 4 The state of social protection around the world 64 Lutz Leisering 5 Social protection in Latin America 97 Armando Barrientos 6 Social protection in Africa 112 Renata Nowak-Garmer 7 Social protection in Southeast Asia 130 Charles Knox-Vydmanov and Nuno Cunha 8 Social protection systems in MENA: past, present and future 147 Charlotte Bilo, João Pedro Dytz, Maya Hammad, Lucas Sato and Fábio Veras Soares PART III DESIGN FEATURES OF SOCIAL PROTECTION AND INSTITUTIONAL CAPABILITY 9 Social protection systems and their linkages 168 Stephen Devereux 10 Universal, categorical and targeted social protection: issues, debates and solutions 188 Rachel Slater 11 Social protection modes of financing and capability challenges in lowand middle-income countries 205 Marianne S. Ulriksen PART IV WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL PROTECTION? 12 Evaluating social protection policies 220 Michael Samson 13 Social protection impacts, gaps and future research 239 Esther Schüring, Valentina Barca and Sajanika Sivanu 14 Understanding the role of nutrition-sensitive social protection interventions in child nutritional outcomes 260 Wanga Zembe-Mkabile PART V SOCIAL PROTECTION LINKAGES AND INNOVATIONS 15 Linking social protection with complementary services: approaches and country innovations 277 Sudhanshu Handa, Marwa Ibrahim and Tia Palermo 16 Social protection for workers in the informal economy: opportunities and constraints for informal worker-led schemes 289 Laura Alfers, Annie Devenish and Temilade Sesan 17 Financial capability and asset building: innovations in social protection and development 308 David Ansong, Moses Okumu, Jin Huang, Sicong Sun, Aytakin Huseynli, Isaac Koomson, Gina Chowa, Fred Ssewamala, Margaret S. Sherraden and Michael Sherraden 18 Linking formal and informal social protection in an insecurity regime: The case of Zimbabwe 331 Gift Dafuleya 19 The role of social work in the delivery of conditional cash transfer programmes: Lessons from Chile 350 Taly Reininger and Cristian Leyton 20 Public employment programmes and their interface with social protection 362 Kate Philip PART VI SOCIAL PROTECTION, VULNERABILITIES AND SOCIAL INCLUSION: LINKAGES WITH SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES AND DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS 21 Cash plus programmes for children and families in eastern and southern Africa: Examples from practice and lessons learnt 381 Mayke Huijbregts, Tayllor Spadafora and Leila Patel 22 Gender and social protection in Brazil 399 Natasha Borges Sugiyama 23 Social security for persons with disabilities across low- and middle-income countries: An overview on lessons learnt and pathways toward greater inclusivity 416 Stephen Kidd, Diloá Athias and Holly Seglah 24 Social protection for refugees and asylum seekers: A South African case study 437 Marius Olivier and Amanuel Isak Tewolde PART VII COUNTRY RESPONSES TO COVID-19 25 Global rapid appraisal of social protection responses to COVID-19 456 Isaac Chinyoka 26 The digital delivery of welfare services in India: Achievements, anomalies and lessons learnt 470 Aishwarya Sivaramakrishnan and Sony Pellissery 27 Social protection responses to COVID-19 in Indonesia 485 David Androff and Sirojudin Abbas 28 Safeguarding vulnerable children in China during COVID-19 and beyond: An integrated approach to social protection and social governance 499 Suo Deng 29 Social protection responses to COVID-19 in South Africa 512 Jean D. 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Book SynopsisOutlining an integrative theory of knowledge, Francisco Javier Carrillo explores how to understand the underlying behavioural basis of the knowledge economy and society. Chapters highlight the notion that unless a knowledge-based value creation and distribution paradigm is globally adopted, the possibilities for integration between a sustainable biosphere and a viable economy are small.This Modern Guide provides an overview of where we are regarding the knowledge economy and society, how its current form took shape and how our understanding has evolved, from the grounds of the philosophy of knowledge, to include the current branches of the sciences of knowledge. Carrillo further examines the challenges of the Anthropocene and how modern knowledge systems might need to change radically to meet them. The Modern Guide then moves to focus on the integration of epistemic, theoretical, technical and political developments in several fields of knowledge-related aspects of economy and society to offer a more integrated view.>Multidisciplinary and thorough, this will be an interesting read for scholars of knowledge, society and the environment, as well as students looking at ways to re-evaluate knowledge more broadly. Policymakers and governmental analysts will also benefit from the discussing of the unviability of our current economic culture and the potential options for the future.Trade Review‘Francisco Javier Carrillo tackles the most existential challenge of our time, the need for an environmentally viable economic system. He provides a sound and hopeful answer based on unlocking the potential and value of knowledge. Carrillo does this with his characteristic wisdom, clarity and poeticism. His book delivers richly on his own call for action to advance knowledge about ourselves in the world.’ -- Velina Petrova, Knowledge for Impact Director, Oxfam International, US‘If we know that we are doing things that will imperil future generations, yet fail to change our behaviour, then what good is knowledge? The author proposes that the solution to humanity’s ecological quandary must entail a re-assessment of what kinds of knowledge are important – in other words, how knowledge is valued. This is a thoughtful book about thinking, informed by the author’s carefully examined ethical principles. It offers an example of the kind of thinking that is essential if organized human society is to survive past this century.’ -- Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute, US and author, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human SurvivalTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction: two tables, two chairs, many worlds 1. Knowledge on knowledge 2. A crisis of identity in economics 3. An economy of what matters 4. Knowledge-based value systems 5. Knowledge markets and visible hands 6. Knowledge-based life 7. Knowledge societies: power, justice and governance 8. Knowledge-based development 9. The Anthropocene turn in human civilizations 10. A matter of knowledge or death Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisWith sport’s role now firmly embedded in international development contexts, policy and delivery, this comprehensive Handbook provides a contemporary, multi-disciplinary overview of state-of-the-art research in this critical space. It features a holistic synthesis of current scholarship as well as new and emerging approaches, contexts and development foci. The Handbook includes chapters on a great variety of sport initiatives, ranging from small community projects to large-scale international events. The Handbook establishes the nexus between reflection, action, and innovation by presenting critical issues from diverse perspectives and with varied voices. Contributors include seminal scholars from broader disciplines, sport-specific development experts as well as up-and-coming academics who address contemporary challenges such as climate change, gender discrimination, athlete diplomacy and the effects of – and sports’ responses to – the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the Handbook offers critical outlooks regarding concepts, methodologies, collaborations and knowledge mobilisation in sport and international development. The Handbook of Sport and International Development will be a crucial resource for those studying and researching sport in international development settings. It will also be critical for policymakers and development practitioners seeking to gain a broader perspective on the important role of sport in international development.Trade Review‘This is a timely, perceptive, and imaginatively edited collection of articles on the post-COVID achievements, challenges, and opportunities of sport for development. While it’s not shy about revealing the harm created by North-South power imbalances, the neo-colonialism practiced upon Indigenous peoples, and the failure of many good intentions, it’s cautiously hopeful, offering many evidence-based examples of better practices. I learned a lot from it. I commend it to donors, policy-makers, students and scholars, and those on the ground.’ -- Bruce Kidd, University of Toronto, Canada‘This Handbook, carefully curated by world-leading experts in sport and development, provides a comprehensive and sophisticated overview of the field, cutting-edge insights into the issues facing sport and development today and provides a unique global perspective in authorship and contexts.’ -- Emma Sherry, RMIT University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Handbook of Sport and International Development 1 Nico Schulenkorf, Jon Welty Peachey, Ramón Spaaij, Holly Collison-Randall PART I CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES 1 Anthropology – Anthropology, sport, and international development: an ambivalent relationship 11 Susan Brownell 2 Sociology – Sociology and sport for development and peace 22 Richard Giulianotti 3 Policy analysis – Macro- and meso-level analyses of sport and international development 35 Iain Lindsey 4 Indigenous studies – Challenges and opportunities for better engagement 48 Rochelle Stewart-Withers and Jeremy Hapeta 5 Management/Business studies – Applying business and management principles to advance sport for development organisations and outcomes 59 Katie Rowe, Pamm Phillips and Katherine Raw 6 Innovation studies – Social transformation in sport for development 71 Per G. Svensson 7 Youth and social work – Critical reflections on youth, social work and sports-based interventions 82 David Ekholm and Magnus Dahlstedt PART II INTERNATIONAL SPORT-FOR-DEVELOPMENT: KEY THEMES 8 Gender – Sport, development and gender: expanding the vision of what we can be and do 95 Sarah Zipp, Lombe Mwambwa and Anna Goorevich 9 Education – Education as a central aspect of sport and international development 110 Ruth Jeanes and Hayley Truskewycz 10 Livelihoods – Livelihood generation for disadvantaged youth in the context of poverty 122 Cora Burnett and Engela van der Klashorst 11 Disability – Disability, sport and social change in sub-Saharan Africa: para sport against stigma 138 Damian Haslett, Jennifer Wong, Sheila Mogalo, Emma Pullen and Mufunanji Magalasi 12 Healthy lifestyles – The efficacy of sport for health development initiatives for community health 150 Michael Edwards 13 Social inclusion – Social inclusion and sport: beating the odds or changing the odds? 161 Fred Coalter 14 Peace and reconciliation – Critical reflections across theory and practice 175 Jack T. Sugden and John Sugden PART III RESEARCH IN ACTION Holly Collison-Randall and Ramón Spaaij 15 Research frameworks and models – A critical analysis and identification of features for advancing research in sport for development 188 Meredith A. Whitley and William V. Massey 16 Research collaborations – On the experience of doing international research on sport for development and peace in South America 198 Billy Graeff, Simona Šafař’kov‡ and Arnošt Svoboda 17 Life spans – How to determine participation across the life span in the context of sub-Saharan poverty 204 Bronwyn Sumption 18 SDP and Gender – Women-focused projects in the Arabian Gulf 219 Hussa K. Al-Khalifa 19 Participatory action research – Innovating research using visual and digital methods in sport for development and peace 231 Mitchell McSweeney 20 Insights from the frontline of sport and international development – The world’s gone bonkers! 241 Nick Gates 21 Mapping SFD stakeholders – A social network analysis of stakeholder relationship networks in Africa and Europe 247 Steve Swanson, Fiona Meeks, Cora Burnett, James Skinner, Holly Collison-Randall 22 Drawing and comics – Revisiting sport for development and peace 261 Shawn Forde PART IV CRITICAL ISSUES 23 Leadership – Time to re-purpose the pegs: youth leadership development through sport for a post-pandemic world 268 Tony Ghaye and Tarryn Horner 24 Ecology – The international development and the advancement of the global environmental movement in sport 282 Brian P. McCullough and Jessica R. Murfree 25 Entrepreneurship – Origins, trends and outlook in sport for development and peace 293 Mitchell McSweeney and Gareth Jones 26 Social transformation – Critically interrogating girls and women as ‘transformational subjects’ in sport for development and peace 305 Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst, Mitchell J. McSweeney, Raghdah Zakariya and Simon C. Darnell 27 Conflict and transformation – Conflict transformation and positive peace 321 Yolanda Antin, Hiro Fujihara and Tom Woodhouse 28 Refugees and displacement – A critical look at unaccompanied refugee minors’ experiences in organised sport and recreation activities in Norway 334 Kabanda Mwansa and Florian Kiuppis 29 Diplomacy – Athletes as third-culture builders 346 Soolmaz Abooali and Margarita Tadevosyan 30 Preventing violent extremism – Sport-based learnings from Kenya and Uganda 358 Holly Collison-Randall, Lin Sambili- Gicheha, Hussa Al-Khalifa and Ramón Spaaij 31 Corporate social (ir-)responsibility – CSR in esports: a strategic bridge to sport for development? 374 Jukka Rintamaki, Emily Jane Hayday and Richard Loat 32 Design thinking – Human-centred design in sport for development 386 Greg Joachim 33 Action sports – Global issues for action sports and the case of SkatePal 397 Anna Farello 34 Alternative sports – The pedagogical kaleidoscope for alternate games: from homo ludens to homines iocosi 408 Jorge Knijnik 35 COVID-19 – Sport for development in international settings: responses to COVID-19 421 Peter Donnelly and Simon Darnell Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Research Handbook offers an innovative analysis of environmental law in the global South. It contributes to an important reassessment of some of the major concepts underlying environmental law, from a perspective that emphasises how their application affects poor and marginalised people as well as the wider ecosystems in which they live. Through legal analysis of environmental issues themselves, rather than the often limited discussion of existing legal instruments, this Research Handbook discusses areas rarely prioritised in environmental law, such as land rights, and underlines how these intersect with issues including poverty, livelihoods and the use of natural resources. Featuring contributors largely from, or working in, the global South with a variety of approaches and backgrounds, the Research Handbook challenges familiar narratives around development and sustainability in this context and provides new insights into environmental rights and justice. Researchers and postgraduate students will find this Research Handbook's unique perspective invaluable, particularly in the context of a growing interest in 'people-centric' environmental law. Policymakers and activists in the global South will also be interested in its analysis of key issues and suggestions for alternative models and future policy. Contributors include: S. Adelman, U. Baxi, V. Bhagat-Ganguly, S. Bhattacharjee, L. Bhullar, C.R. Bijoy, P. Cullet, J. Dehm, B. Gebremichael, K. Gill, S. Gopalakrishnan, E. Grant, M. Gupta, T. Kaime, P. Kameri-Mbote, A.H. Khan, M. Kidd, K. Kohli, S. Koonan, A. Kothari, L. Kotzé, F. Lesniewska, L. Lohmann, M. Menon, F. Padel, U. Ramanthan, J. Razzaque, G. Sahu, P. SampatTrade Review‘The book is a timely and essential contribution to the literature on environment policy, due in no small part to its insistence on speaking with the voice of the Global South on such matters, in a way that often conflicts with prevailing narratives from forces of globalization and neoliberalism, and on challenging the premise of sustainable development and unlimited growth.’ -- Christopher Atkinson, International Journal of Public Administration'Professors Cullet and Koonan have assembled an impressive array of scholars from the global South for this state of the art Research Handbook. It takes the perspective that efforts to sustain the ecological basis of all life must first consider the lives of poor and marginalised people who are often further harmed by the rules that should protect them. As such, it is invaluable for the reader looking for a guide to sustaining and synergising human and nonhuman ecologies in the twenty-first century.' --David Takacs, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco'Environmental law has often adopted an ahistorical, technocratic approach to environmental protection that neglects the relationship between the abuse of nature and the exploitation and subordination of human beings. This book gives voice to the perspectives and priorities of marginalised communities in the South and the North, and places justice at the centre rather than the periphery of environmental law and policy.' --Carmen G. Gonzalez, Seattle University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global South xvi Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan PART I QUESTIONING THE CONCEPTS OF DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY 1 Intergenerational justice, water rights, and climate change 2 Upendra Baxi 2 Justice, development and sustainability in the Anthropocene 14 Sam Adelman 3 Neoliberalism, law and nature 32 Larry Lohmann 4 Radical well-being alternatives to development 64 Ashish Kothari PART II ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND ACCESS TO REMEDIES 5 Environmental rights in the Global South 86 Louis J. Kotzé and Evadne Grant 6 North-South transboundary movement of hazardous wastes – the Basel Ban and environmental justice 109 Julia Dehm and Adil Hasan Khan 7 The Bhopal case: retrospect and prospect 138 Usha Ramanathan PART III LAND USE, ACQUISITION AND DISPOSSESSION 8 Land rights, poverty, and livelihoods: the case of Ethiopia 147 Brightman Gebremichael 9 Wildlife conservation and land rights in Kenya: competing or complementary agendas? 169 Patricia Kameri-Mbote 10 Land-grabs and dispossession in India: laws of value 190 Preeti Sampat PART IV FORESTS: A CONTESTED RESOURCE OR COMMODITY 11 Environmental impact assessment in the context of mangrove forest ecosystem management in Bangladesh: a case study of Rampal coal power plant project 207 Jona Razzaque 12 Forests, people and poverty: failing to reform the global development paradigm 231 Feja Lesniewska 13 Access to and control over forest resources – the case of the Forest Rights Act, 2006 in India 249 Shankar Gopalakrishnan PART V INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: RESOURCE USE, CONSERVATION, LIVELIHOODS AND RIGHTS 14 Forest rights and tribals in mineral rich areas of India: the Vedanta case and beyond 272 Geetanjoy Sahu 15 Conservation and livelihoods: conflicts or convergence? 286 CR Bijoy PART VI ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT 16 International energy policy for development: human rights and sustainable development law imperatives 305 Thoko Kaime 17 Nuclear energy and liability: an environmental perspective 322 Saurabh Bhattacharjee PART VII WATER: PRIVATISATION, DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS 18 Realisation of the right to water: lessons from South Africa 348 Michael Kidd 19 Dams and displacement: the case of the Sardar Sarovar Project, India 371 Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly 20 Wastewater reuse in irrigated agriculture in urban and peri-urban India: a farmers’ rights perspective 396 Lovleen Bhullar PART VIII COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USE OF RESOURCES AND EQUITY 21 Mining, development and environment in India 413 Felix Padel and Malvika Gupta 22 Environment impact assessment in India: contestations over regulating development 435 Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli 23 The informal waste sector: ‘surplus’ labour, detritus, and the right to the post-colonial city 452 Kaveri Gill Index 477

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Social Policy and Development makes a groundbreaking, coherent case for enhancing collaboration between social policy and development. With wide ranging chapters, it discusses a myriad of ways in which this can be done, exploring both academic and practical activities. As the conventional distinction between 'developed' and 'developing' countries becomes increasingly blurred, this Handbook explores how collaboration between social policy and development is needed to meet global social needs.With contributions from leading experts in both social policy and development studies, this Handbook analyses the complexities of integrating social policy and development studies. Examining a diverse and comprehensive range of countries and case studies that highlight ways to improve this integration, contributors deal with critical debates, covering a wide range of services, programmes, providers and policy sectors.The Handbook of Social Policy and Development is an invaluable introduction to the subject for students of social policy and development studies. Its comprehensive approach also makes it a valuable reference for researchers and specialists in the field. Contributors include: L. Alfers, A. Barrientos, J. Beall, A. Datta, H. Dean, K. Falkenberg, R. Jolkonnen, D. Kiwan, H.-j. Kwon, J. Lee, A. Lombard, F. Lund, P. Mader, J. Midgley, L. Patel, M. Pawar, M. Rogan, R. Surender, M. Terano, M. Urbina-Ferretjans, A. Virk, N. YeatesTrade Review'If you read one book to understand current scholarship on social policy and development in the global south, this should be it. Lucid and comprehensive, it is encyclopaedic in scope. The role of the state is set out and powerfully defended. The bunkers into which the social sciences and policy-making have been artificially divided are exposed and questioned. Robert Kennedy said that GDP measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile: this book covers a large part of what makes life worthwhile.' --David Piachaud, London School of Economics, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Social Policy and Development James Midgley, Rebecca Surender and Laura Alfers PART I SOCIAL POLICY AND DEVELOPMENT: ORIGINS AND PROGRESSION 1. Social policy and development: an overview James Midgley 2. The social policy nexus and development: convergence, divergence and dynamic change Rebecca Surender PART II KEY ISSUES AND DEBATES 3. Shaping society from below: social movements, social policy and development Laura Alfers 4. Gender: toward gender equality and poverty reduction Leila Patel 5. Global social policy in a development context: ideas, actors and implementation Huck-ju Kwon 6. The SDGs: towards a social development approach in the 2030 Agenda? Marian Urbina-Ferretjans 7. Social and human rights Hartley Dean 8. Social policy and urban development Jo Beall 9. Rural development Amrita Datta 10. The environment and development: fight against poverty and/or protection of the environment – a conflict of interests? Karl Falkenberg 11. Security and development Dina Kiwan 12. World-regional social governance, policy and development Nicola Yeates 13. The informal economy and informal employment Francie Lund 14. Employment-based social protection: ‘productivism’, universalism and social citizenship Michael Rogan and Laura Alfers PART III SERVICES, PROGRAMMES AND POLICY SECTORS 15. Health and development Amrit Virk 16. Education, social policy and development Mayumi Terano 17. Housing, development and social justice James Lee 18. Social insurance, pensions and development James Midgley 19. Social assistance, poverty and development James Midgley 20. Conditional income transfers, social policy and development Armando Barrientos 21. Social work and family services Antoinette Lombard 22 Financial inclusion and microfinance Philip Mader and Solène Morvant-Roux 23. Community development programmes Manohar Pawar 24. NGOs and their role in the welfare mix Roosa Jolkkonen Index

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Book SynopsisThe book addresses and documents farmers' risks in developing and emerging economies. It draws lessons from experimental economics on measuring risk preferences, attitudes, gender differences in managing risks, and risk management strategies in countries across Africa and Asia. It argues policy makers, especially in emerging economies, need a better understanding of farmers' attitudes toward risk and choices of risk management strategies when designing policies to support production agriculture. The book includes chapters on three themes: understanding risk attitudes and preferences; using experimental economics to measure risk, preferences, and risk management strategies; and understanding climate change, risk, and risk management. The book critically examines the currently held beliefs about risk preference, attitudes, and empirical estimation of risk management strategies, emphasizing developing and emerging economies (DEE)."The agricultural development space is an inherently risky one and this welcome collection belatedly helps to plug an important hole." Jock R. Anderson, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of New England, Armidale, Australia"Over time, agricultural production practices have evolved, as have the markets and value chains for food and agricultural products. A constant consideration, however, and one that continues to define agriculture worldwide, is risk. The risks that impinge on agriculture come in all shapes and sizes. Of course, production risks are ubiquitous. But so are market risks. And the same is true for macroeconomic and financial risks and the risks associated with an evolving climate. This book will be a valuable, comprehensive resource for any applied economist desiring to understand the risk management principles relevant to modern food and agricultural systems." Matthew Holt, Prof. and head of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, USA.

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the spread of public and private environmental and food safety regulations from Europe and North America to Asia and Africa. It explores the growth of policy diffusion and standard alignment on sustainability observed in non-Western follower countries in a globalizing world.The book examines the role of both developed and developing non-Western countries as followers that adopt food safety, environmental and sustainability policies under different conditions to those of the originating country. Chapters analyse non-state forms of transnational regulation, and how these have diffused to non-Western countries. They showcase how standard alignment efforts lead to multiple localized regulations determined by specific circumstances, highlighting the dilemma in designing policy in an era of globalization.The use of in-depth case studies by renowned experts will make this book an important read for political science and economics scholars interested in trade, standards and international regulation. Policy-makers concerned with issues of sustainability in follower countries will find the book’s lessons on how to adapt policies helpful.Trade Review‘The Diffusion of Public and Private Sustainability Regulation sheds much needed light on the domestic processes in Asian and African countries that adopt policies originating from elsewhere. Policy diffusion processes are an essential part of global environmental governance but we still don’t fully understand how, in particular, non-Western countries translate and adopt environmental regulations that originate from Western countries. This book is a major contribution in this regard.’ -- - Katja Biedenkopf, University of Leuven, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction to The Diffusion of Public and Private Sustainability Regulations: The Responses of Follower Countries 1 Etsuyo Michida, John Humphrey and David Vogel 2. National palm oil standards in Asia: motivations and impacts on trade and rural development 17 John Humphrey and Etsuyo Michida 3. Factors explaining the adoption of green building rating systems at the country level: competition of LEED and other green building rating systems 47 Kenji Shiraishi and Hajime Iseda 4. Diffusion mechanisms for regulating fishery products: the cases of Tanzania, Madagascar, and Mauritius 75 Akiko Yanai 5. Seeking the similarities while keeping the differences: the development of emissions trading schemes in northeast Asia 99 Fang-Ting Cheng 6. The diffusion of energy efficiency policies in Asian countries: country-specific drivers of policy followers 120 Michikazu Kojima Index 137

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Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive review of contemporary research on inclusive innovation, chapters address the systemic, structural issues that present the 'grand challenges' of our time. With 27 contributions from 57 expert scholars, this Handbook highlights both emerging practices and scalable solutions. Acting as a call to action, the chapters place social impact at the heart of theory and practice, providing fresh insight into global issues and practical solutions. Organized into five distinct sections to reflect current theoretical approaches and frameworks, contributions cover social innovation as practice; community and place; systems, institution and infrastructure; individual, organizations and organizing, and networks and social change. This Handbook emphasises the fundamental shift needed in management scholarship to address global problems and achieve social impact through sustainable development goals. This will be an invaluable resource for those championing social inclusion in both research and practice, including innovation researchers and management scholars more broadly.Trade Review'Bravo! Inclusive innovation is one of the most important topics in management research. Yet, there has been no standard reference available for mapping out the topic and providing a systematic discussion of what we know and what remains to be done. In this essential contribution, George, Baker, Tracey and Joshi have brought together many of the leading scholars on the topic and have provided a much needed overview. This will undoubtedly become the key reference in inclusive innovation.' --Nelson Phillips, Imperial College Business School, London, UKTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Inclusion and Innovation: A Call to Action Gerard George, Ted Baker, Paul Tracey and Havovi Joshi PART II SOCIAL INNOVATION IN PRACTICE 2. A Silent Evolution: Innovative and Inclusive Narratives on Sustainability Ana Cristina Campos Marques 3. Climate Change and Social Innovation Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg 4. Problem, person, and pathway: A framework for social innovators Julie Battilana, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis and Christian Seelos 5. Inclusion and Innovation in Healthcare Anita M. McGahan 6. How do we know when social innovation works? A review and contingency model of social impact assessment Greg Molecke and Anne-Claire Pache PART III COMMUNITY AND PLACE 7. Indigenous Social Innovation: What Is Distinctive? And a Research Agenda Ana María Peredo, Murdith McLean, Crystal Tremblay 8. Urban Innovation: At the nexus of urban policy and entrepreneurship Jeffrey A. Robinson, Amol M. Joshi, Lutisha Vickerie-Dearman and Todd Inouye 9. Community social innovation: Taking a long view on community enterprise Neil Stott, Michelle Fava and Natalie Slawinski 10. Collective Social Innovation: Leveraging Custodianship, Tradition and Place on Fogo Island M. Tina Dacin and Peter A. Dacin PART IV SYSTEMS, INSTITUTIONS, AND INFRASTRUCTURE 11. Coordinating Infrastructure Changes to Meet Retiring Baby Boomers’ Needs David Souder 12. Sustainable Technology-Enabled Innovations for Ageing-in-Place: The Singapore Example Hwee-Pink Tan and Hwee-Xian Tan 13. How Firms Bring Social Innovation and Efficiency to the Global Effort to Recover From national uncertainty shocks Luis Ballesteros 14. The Lack of Public Goods in Emergent Economies: A Call for Research and a Case Study of Innovative Organisational Design Nuno Gil 15. An institutional framework to the scaling up of inclusive social innovations: the case of La Salada Silvia Dorado and Pablo D. Fernández 16. Social Innovation as Institutional Work Warren Nilsson 17. Challenges for Global Supply Chains and Opportunities for Social Innovation Yong H. Kim and Gerald F. Davis PART V INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZATIONS AND ORGANIZING 18. Emotions as the Glue, the Fuel and the Rust of Social Innovation Charlene Zietsma and Madeline Toubiana 19. Income Inequality: Consequences and Implications for Social Innovation Xiang Zhou and Jason D. Shaw 20. Frugal Innovation and Social Innovation: Linked Paths to Achieving Inclusion Sustainably Yasser Bhatti and Jaideep Prabhu 21. Climate Change and Entrepreneurship Elizabeth Embry, Jessica Jones and Jeffrey G. York 22. A Framework for Sustaining Hybridity in Social Enterprises: Combining Differentiating and Integrating Marya Besharov, Wendy Smith and Tiffany Darabi 23. Organizing for global change Yves Plourde PART VI NETWORKS AND SOCIAL CHANGE 24. Collaborative Governance Ann Florini 25. Inclusive Innovation through Alliance Networks Arno Kourula 26. Social Entrepreneurs as Network Orchestrators: A Framework and Research Agenda on Networks and Leadership in the Context of Social Innovation Christian Busch and Harry Barkema 27. Empowerment, Social Innovation and Social Change Helen M Haugh and Maggie O’Carroll Index

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Book SynopsisIn this innovative book, Ilan Kapoor and Gavin Fridell rethink development politics psychoanalytically, investigating its unconscious. Whereas mainstream development politics is organized around stability and rationality, psychoanalysis points to disharmony and irrationality, helping to explain the development subject’s often self-defeating behaviour — for example being seduced by growth and shopping, despite being aware of the inherent perils of inequality and climate crisis.Rethinking Development Politics reassesses development in relation to three significant schools of thought: Modernization; (neo)Marxist political economy; and Postdevelopment/Decoloniality. It exposes how all three disavow the unconscious temptations of development, resulting in the rationalization of the market, the undervaluation of fantasy and fetishism, and the advocacy of an uncritical politics of authenticity. The book distinguishes the psychoanalytic approach from its predecessors by focusing on contemporary case studies, including digital and green modernization, trade, neopopulism, anti-racist training, and radical politics in present-day Iran. Crucially, these case studies speak to the extent to which the unconscious may be a political resource for reconfiguring development politics to put the subaltern first.Proposing a distinctive method of inquiry, Rethinking Development Politics will be of great interest to students, academics, and researchers in development studies, psychology, sociology, international relations, political science, and peace and conflict studies. Its critical analysis will also be of great use to global agency officials, corporate policy-makers, public policy institutions, and activist and advocacy organizations.Trade Review‘This highly original and provocative “(un)thought experiment” engages in a compelling, well-written and razor-sharp ideology critique of the modernization, Marxist, postdevelopment and decolonial approaches to development. Focusing on six contemporary case studies, the book also hints at how development could be radically transformed through a “politics of desire” and a “politics of drive”. One does not have to be a fan of psychoanalysis in order to appreciate this work and its far-reaching implications for anyone doing and studying development.' -- Jan Orbie, Ghent University, Belgium‘This is a truly brave and thought-provoking book, written from a perspective that is too often rejected apriori by dismissive minds. Framed in an accessible language, it highlights the gaps and unconscious enjoyments of both mainstream and critical development. Importantly, it proposes routes ahead in which the unconscious constitutes not only a stumbling block, but also a political resource.’ -- Maria Eriksson Baaz, Uppsala University, Sweden‘Ilan Kapoor and Gavin Fridell confront the invisible but active unconscious in development politics and they deliver not just a “rethinking” of issues but an “unthinking” development politics - as they critique modernization, Marxist political economy, postdevelopment and decoloniality. Theirs is a refreshing take predicated on critical psychoanalysis, which explodes the seductive ideologies of development.’ -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, University of Bayreuth, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: rethinking development politics … psychoanalytically 2 Modernization: ideological cover for capitalist development 3 (Neo)Marxist political economy: failure to take fetishism seriously 4 Postdevelopment and Decoloniality: a politics of authenticity and disavowal 5 Case studies in development politics: psychoanalytic inflections 6 Conclusion: reworking development politics References Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book examines the impact of two competing visions of Asian-Pacific economic growth paths and development governance. It discusses law, development and finance in the context of the Indo-Pacific Strategy versus the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), whilst also comparing parallel development financing systems.Jin Sheng reflects on and connects a series of issues of global significance, such as the economic Cold War, global debt, industrialisation and development in the developing world, and the changing international economic order. In so doing the author posits that the BRI’s ultimate objective is to export China’s development model, which is characterised by a focus on exports, experimentalism, and oversupply of currency. The book also critically examines China’s ambition to dominate the international economic order and set up its own favoured international rules.Alternative Development Finance and Parallel Development Strategies in the Asia-Pacific will be an important read for researchers and policy makers in the fields of law, development and finance in the Asia-Pacific region.Table of ContentsContents: 1. Infrastructure matters 2. Law, development, and finance 3. The One Belt One Road (obor) initiative: A global “great leap forward” or a “great leap outward”? 4. Asia’s two financial hubs and sovereign funds 5. Establishment and governance of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Alternative development finance? 6. Established Bretton Woods IFIs vs emerging AIIB affiliates 7. Racing for development hegemony 8. Conclusion: The new Cold War has started Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook examines the causes, costs and consequences of state fragility, advancing key debates in the field. Demonstrating the multidimensionality of fragility by applying diverse theories and methodologies, it provides new insights on effective policy development and application in the context of fragile states.Drawing on a wide variety of disciplines, approaches and case studies, the Handbook pays particular attention to the root causes and drivers of fragility. It centres authority, legitimacy and the citizen-state relationship alongside state capacity, revealing the flaws in the reasoning behind previous Western policy interventions in fragile states. Chapters address a broad range of issues facing fragile states, from fragility traps, refugees and urbanisation to recent events including the Covid-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war and the increasing pressures of climate change. Ultimately, the Handbook advances the state of both academic and policy knowledge on state fragility, revealing the deep links between the two. This Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of political science, international relations, development studies, economics, and sociology. It will also benefit practitioners seeking to improve the effectiveness of their policy proposals. Trade Review‘The Handbook of Fragile States brings together an impressive breadth and diversity of expertise – empirical and theoretical, academic and policy-oriented. It demonstrates that our understanding of state fragility, its sources and the ways to overcome it, has made tremendous progress in recent years – a knowledge badly needed in a world where multiple global crises put nations increasingly under stress. In their entirety, the twenty-four chapters of this volume make a convincing case for the notion that the legitimacy of the rulers, as much as their capacity to provide for their citizens, is a crucial resource for states to escape, or avoid, the perils of fragility.’ -- Jörn Grävingholt, German Institute of Development and Sustainability, Germany‘The idea of fragile states has been widely debated since its first emergence in the fields of security and development. By uniting authors from various disciplines and backgrounds, this Handbook contributes to a better understanding of the many factors that may hamper the legitimacy and the capacity of state institutions. It will be of interest to researchers studying the multifaceted nature of fragility, as well as to policy practitioners operating in countries affected by ongoing crises, disasters and conflicts.’ -- Olivier Nay, University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne, France‘Extending from their previous extensive research and bringing together a strong group of contributors, Carment and Samy offer an excellent introduction and resource on research and policy on fragile states. Collectively, the chapters provide a thorough review of core topics in the literature, such as the conceptualization and measurement of fragile states and root causes, and new perspectives on emerging topics, such as urban fragility and climate linkages.’ -- Rachel Gisselquist, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), FinlandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook of Fragile States 1 David Carment and Yiagadeesen Samy 2 Investigating the root causes of fragility 19 Sonja Grimm 3 Transforming conception(s) of state fragility and new containment interventions 39 Nicolas Lemay-Hébert and Babatunde F. Obamamoye 4 Current conceptualizations and measurements of state fragility: recent developments and remaining limits 53 Ines A. Ferreira 5 The United States is vulnerable: a flashing red light in the Fragile States Index 73 Nate Haken and Natalie Fiertz 6 The case for measuring multidimensional fragility: is disaggregation the answer? 88 Harsh Desai (OECD) and Jonathan Marley (OECD) 7 Strategic approaches in fragile societies: targeting drivers 104 Seth D. Kaplan 8 Hybrid authority systems and political instability 121 Monty G. Marshall 9 Hybrid political orders in fragile contexts 137 Tobias Debiel and Stephan Dombrowski 10 Implications of fragility for growth, poverty and inequality 152 Karla Cisneros Rosado and Yiagadeesen Samy 11 Just “add women and stir”? Bringing gender into fragility debates 170 Diana Koester 12 The relationship between state fragility and refugees 192 Charles Martin-Shields 13 Climate change and fragility: improving early warning and climate-proofing development and conflict interventions 206 Erin Sikorsky, Francesco Femia and Brigitte Hugh 14 Urban fragility 222 Robert Muggah 15 Understanding horizontal inequalities: the case of Palestinian refugees in Jordan 236 Zina Nimeh 16 The African fragility problem 252 Robert I. Rotberg 17 State fragility and sustainable development in the Middle East and North Africa 265 Hamid E. Ali, Mahmoud Elmakkawe and Nesreen Nasser Alanbar 18 State fragility trap and conflict in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 285 Said Yaqub Ibrahimi 19 Fragility of small island developing states 299 Michaël Goujon and Laurent Wagner 20 Securitization, divergent agendas and the sectoral allocation of development aid within Afghanistan 316 Mark McGillivray and Safiullah Taye 21 Exiting the fragility trap: evidence from Bangladesh 334 David Carment and Emilia Vydelingum 22 “Nothing about us without us”: the g7+ and the New Deal 355 Habib ur Rehman Mayar, Helder da Costa and Felix Piedad 23 The EU’s approach to fragile states: conflicting norms, practices, and lessons learnt 369 Julian Bergmann and Mark Furness 24 Coordinating aid in fragile states: the promise of country platforms and principles for effective aid architecture 385 Rachael Calleja and Sarah Rose Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the ways that contemporary urban life takes the Holocene for granted, this multidisciplinary book warns that anthropogenic environmental impacts are on course to challenge the viability of most human settlements. It highlights how, despite increased warnings, most cities appear to be in denial of the potential impending catastrophes and remain ill-prepared to handle major disruptions. Chapters offer a critical appraisal of the end of an urban epoch: the Holocene city. Moving from more general aspects of urban vulnerability in the face of the Anthropocene, the book then looks at more specific issues and cases illustrating alternative adaptation pathways. It further analyses existing approaches, movements and networks for urban preparedness for the climate crisis, offering visualisations of the ways these can be improved, conceiving alternative futures and reinventing the city. A timely resource for this emerging topic, the book will be beneficial to urban studies, environmental science and development studies scholars. Practitioners in urban planning, design, management and evaluation will also find the critical case studies in the book particularly helpful.Trade Review‘This is definitely a book that offers some answers and questions to the wicked climate change problems from a local perspective.’ -- Xira Ruiz-Campillo, Regional Studies‘The breadth of concepts, cases, and data outlined in this book provide critical insights into climate change adaptation. Collectively, they serve as a call to action with a clear message: “business as usual” will be insufficient to meet the climate challenges of our future. Cities must be reimagined, and this book is a place to start that work.’ -- Ashley D. Ross, Texas A&M University at Galveston, US‘City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis brings together many of the world’s leading researchers as we all scramble to address urban resilience in the face of climate change. The book gives a comprehensive assessment of where cities are today, what vulnerabilities are most acute, and how we might bring about greater resilience and well-being for the world’s cities. For cities, as outlined in the book’s summary chapter, governance: the need for better collaboration and co-ordination, is paramount. This collection makes an impressive start to this task.’ -- Daniel Hoornweg, Ontario Tech University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xvi Sirkku Juhola Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxvi Introduction: farewell to the Holocene city 1 Francisco Javier Carrillo PART I URBAN CLIMATE VULNERABILITY 1 Unprecedented challenge: implications for climate resilient urban planning 15 Anja Wejs 2 Insights and challenges from Oxfam’s disaster management work 26 Janice Ian Manlutac, Velina Petrova and Irene Guijt 3 Down scale agency 41 Lelani M. Mannetti 4 The impossibility of accelerated risk management possible pathways 53 Theresa Scavenius PART II PIONEER MOVEMENTS IN CITY PREPAREDNESS 5 Directory of urban preparedness 65 Tatiana Schreiner 6 Local adaptation plans: comparisons and lessons learned 80 Charlotte da Cunha and Elena Lioubimtseva 7 Can salutogenesis contribute to prepare cities for climate change? 93 Ruca Maass, Monica Lillefjell and Kirsti S. Anthun 8 Competencies for viable subsistence 106 Danuta Kaźmierczak PART III INDICATORS AND BENCHMARKING 9 Cities and climate change: a review of current metrics 118 Priscila Nesello and Ana Cristina Fachinelli 10 Knowledge city benchmarking and the MAKCi experience 129 Blanca C. Garcia 11 Learnings from knowledge-based development metrics 141 Ana Cristina Fachinelli, Rafael L. Perini and Priscila Nesello 12 Capital systems for city preparedness: a framework 152 Omar Zermeño PART IV DEEP INNOVATION AND KNOWLEDGE MARKETS FOR CITY PREPAREDNESS 13 Deep innovation 164 Thomas J. Burns 14 Knowledge markets regimes for the urban climate emergency 177 Francisco Javier Carrillo 15 The sharing cosmopolis: prosperity without growth 195 Douglas Kelbaugh 16 Effective collaborative climate change governance in urban areas 209 Lorena Pasquini, Dania Petrik, Balbina Nyamakura, Kate Strachan, Meggan Spires, Sheona Shackleton and Gina Ziervogel PART V STAYING WITH URBAN TROUBLE 17 Urban dysfunctionalities before the Anthropocene 225 Ali Modarres 18 Bunkerization: elite preparedness and retreat in the Anthropocene 234 Daniel South and Nigel South 19 Climate change, migration, and preparedness 244 Stephan A. Schwartz 20 Relocation and climate migration 256 Immaculata Olu Omojola and Mike Boni Bazza PART VI URBAN FUTURES 21 Urban autonomous zones and the mitigation of climate disasters 268 Oliver Kellhammer 22 Urban relational capital and new transaction regimes 281 Angel Eustorgio Rivera, Gibran Rivera and Francisco Javier Carrillo 23 Neo-medievalism: self-governed sub national governments 292 Ravindra K. Srivastava 24 An object-oriented framework for subsistence assurance 304 Jose I. Icaza PART VII RE-IMAGINING THE CITY 25 Political economies of ‘The Commons’ 319 Gavin Keeney, Owen O’Carroll and David S. Jones 26 A youth perspective on green local urban futures 331 Joshua Amponsem, Nathalie Sänger and Marie-Claire Graf 27 Fostering resilient co-learning ecosystems in the city 344 Raphaële Bidault-Waddington 28 Regenerative urban development 357 Beth Schaefer Caniglia Conclusion to City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis 371 Cathy Garner Index

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Book SynopsisFifty years after the Stockholm Conference first placed the environment on the international development agenda, this Handbook continues the debate. The Handbook discusses both the profound environmental and theoretical critique against development as modernization and economic growth, and how perspectives on nature have changed from an infinite resource to a fragile subject. Weighing up the successes and failures linked to environmental concerns in development and environment policy and practice, it recognizes the roots of international development as a Western project linked to the expansion of an environmentally destructive capitalism. Through active dialogue across geographical areas, disciplines and epistemologies, chapters critically assess current perspectives on the topic, including decolonialism, degrowth and post-development. Grounded in recent research on topics such as agriculture, fisheries, infrastructure, forest protection, supply chain management, climate negotiations and the renewable transition, the Handbook integrates a range of different viewpoints on international development and the environment to provide a fresh take on this contentious relationship.With an international scope, this expansive Handbook will be integral reading for students and scholars of development and the environment. It will also be a beneficial read for practitioners working in international organizations and development agencies.Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi 1 Introduction to Handbook on International Development and the Environment: from limits to growth to a transformation for the Anthropocene 1 Benedicte Bull and Mariel Aguilar-Støen PART I RETHINKING DEVELOPMENT: CRITIQUE AND DEFENSE OF A CONTESTED IDEA 2 The sticky myth of economic growth and the critique of development 26 Eduardo Gudynas 3 Leaving development behind: the case for degrowth 41 Federico Demaria and Erik Gómez-Baggethun 4 Dismantling the machine: rethinking the role of technology in critical development theory 57 Alf Hornborg 5 Development under scrutiny: environment, geopolitics and a reimagination of Latin America 71 Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano and Gianfranco Selgas 6 A transformative post-developmental state? State institutions as change-makers in the Anthropocene 83 Benedicte Bull 7 A Chinese Communist Party perspective on development and the environment: socialism through environmental development? 100 Bjørn Leif Brauteseth PART II RETHINKING THE ENVIRONMENT: FROM INFINITE RESOURCE TO FRAGILE SUBJECT 8 The river as subject: legal innovations and their consequence for rights and development 122 John A. McNeish 9 Oceans: the new economic frontier? 137 Mads Barbesgaard 10 The Arctic: last frontier for energy and mineral exploitation? 154 Ragnhild Freng Dale and Lena Gross 11 The international development of food and agriculture: global food regimes, environmental change and new configurations of power 170 Jostein Jakobsen 12 Will development kill us? Globalized livestock production in the “Pandemic Era” 185 Mariel Aguilar-Støen and Jostein Jakobsen PART III RECONSIDERING DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE 13 Infrastructure, development and the environment in a landscape of spatial reconfigurations across the Global South: The case of the Belt and Road Initiative 200 Fabricio Rodríguez and Julia Gurol 14 The new middle classes: consumption, development and sustainability 216 Arve Hansen and Ulrikke Wethal 15 New energy transitions, old problems: the challenge of achieving a just electrification with a gendered face 231 Kirsten Campbell and Tanja Winther 16 The business of sustainability as a governance tool 250 Jason Miklian and John Katsos PART IV RECONSIDERING ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE 17 The challenges of effective international climate cooperation in an unequal world 267 Tora Skodvin 18 The sustainability governance of global supply chains: transnational approaches and the neglect of local development agendas 281 Almut Schilling-Vacaflor 19 Ecosystem services in development: frontier of green colonialism or tool for social justice? 296 Nicolena von Hedemann 20 Reclaiming state capacity in the politics of energy transitions: the cautionary tale of Venezuela’s predatory transition 313 Antulio Rosales Index 328

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Book SynopsisExploring how urban professionals plan, manage and govern cities in emerging economies, this insightful book studies the actions and instruments they employ. It highlights how the paradigms of interventions and approaches to urban management are shifting, indicating that urban governance is becoming increasingly important in dealing with wicked issues, like climate change and social and economic inequalities in cities.Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies offers rich international examples looking at housing, public space, water, climate change, the environment and economic development. Chapters showcase the changing role of urban professionals, with a particular focus on the dynamic social, cultural and economic transformations of cities in emerging economies. Exploring contemporary approaches to urban governance, contributors draw attention to the prevalence of smart cities, new forms of partnerships and just transitions in a changing urban landscape.Researchers and students of urban development, planning, management and governance will appreciate the multiple theoretical angles and the key case studies used throughout the book. The examples and theories will be helpful for urban leaders, strategists and advocates working in emerging economies.Trade Review’The authors argue that cities in emerging economies can increase their sustainable competitiveness by replacing their traditional system of urban planning and management with a modern system of urban governance. This is a must-read for those interested to understand how cities in emerging economies can cope with societal dynamics.’Table of ContentsContents: 1 Urban paradigm shifts in emerging economies 1 Jan Fransen, Meine Pieter van Dijk and Jurian Edelenbos 2 Urban management in practice, issues at stake and overview of the book 20 Meine Pieter van Dijk 3 Managing a just transition in urban contexts 40 Darren McCauley 4 Structural change, labour markets and urban economic policy in emerging economies 57 Frank van Oort, Paula Nagler and Indriany Lionggo 5 Smart city for comprehensive urban management: concepts, impacts, and the South Korean experience 80 Yirang Lim 6 How sustainable, green and smart eco-cities deal with water issues 99 Meine Pieter van Dijk 7 Urban commons in emerging economies 117 Rudina Toto, Marija Ćaćić, Zvezdina Ivanova, Peter Nientied and Katarzyna Stachowiak-Bongwa 8 Knowledge and skill transfer in Addis-Ababa’s light-rail transport 142 Taslim Adebowale Alade and Alberto Gianoli 9 Financing urban infrastructure and services in Africa 162 Aloysius N. Bongwa and Meine Pieter van Dijk 10 Collaborative capacity of public–private partnerships in housing projects: case studies from Nigeria 186 Daniel Adamu and Alberto Gianoli 11 Planning for all? Guiding principles for selecting multi-stakeholder tools in urban planning processes 204 Els Keunen and Saskia Ruijsink 12 Conclusions: new insights in urban planning, management and governance in emerging economies 225 Jan Fransen Index

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Book SynopsisWith human-induced environmental impacts disrupting human life in deeper ways and at a wider scale than anything previously experienced, this multidisciplinary book looks at the ways that current knowledge bases seem inadequate to help us deal with such realities. It offers a critical appraisal of the current knowledge infrastructure, including science, technology, innovation, education and informal knowledge systems. Contributions from a wide spectrum of social scientists, philosophers, activists and decision-makers tackle the importance of knowledge for the Anthropocene using a mosaic of data, theories, cases, models, methods and experiences. Chapters highlight what relevant knowledge will become critical to dealing with deteriorating environmental conditions, as well as how science, technology, education and innovation can be radically transformed to deal with these challenges. The book further explores the behavioural, economic, social and cultural aspects of the Anthropocene, and how knowledge impacts both these and our possible futures. This will be a critical read for human geography and environmental science scholars, as well as social science scholars more broadly, particularly with its in-depth glossary and digital resource list. It will also aid practitioners in the planning, design, management and evaluation of knowledge systems by providing deeper understandings of the potential circumstances of knowledge in the Anthropocene.Trade Review'What does it mean to live in the Anthropocene? While a growing number of edited collections and monographs have approached this question by gathering knowledge of the Anthropocene, Francisco Javier Carrillo and Günter Koch choose a different path: uncompromisingly interdisciplinary, Knowledge For The Anthropocene brings together contributors from different disciplinary and regional backgrounds, thus offering a clear and comprehensive account of the opportunities and challenges of knowledge in and for the Anthropocene.' -- Nico Stehr, Zeppelin University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: knowing what to know, what to do and how to do it in the Anthropocene xiii Noel Castree Preface xvi Acknowledgments xxi Introduction to Knowledge For The Anthropocene 1 Francisco Javier Carrillo PART I KNOWLEDGE AND THE PLANETARY EMERGENCY 1 A portable philosophy toolkit for the Anthropocene 11 Carlos Jesús García-Meza 2 Existential challenges to knowledge 22 Bertrand Guillaume 3 Social psychological drivers of climate change denial 30 Irina Feygina 4 Media accountability before the climate crisis 42 Gabriel Valerio-Ureña, Jorge Asprón and Nalleli Salazar PART II ANTHROPOCENE LITERACY 5 A terminology for the Anthropocene 54 Ernesto Contreras 6 A directory of digital resources about the Anthropocene 76 Paulo David Soasti-Bareta 7 Educating for the Anthropocene 98 Audrey Groleau, Chantal Pouliot, Isabelle Arseneau 8 Localization and globalization of core adaptive knowledge 107 Alexander K. Lautensach PART III ANTHROPOCENE ECONOMICS 9 The end of Holocene economics 120 Richard Heinberg 10 Precursors of an economics for the Anthropocene 132 Daniel Dahm and Günter Koch 11 Deep adaptation and collapsology 145 Jason Monios and Gordon Wilmsmeier 12 Genuine savings and economics for the Anthropocene 157 Eoin McLaughlin and Cristián Ducoing PART IV JUSTICE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE 13 Epistemic injustice 167 Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni 14 The urgency for epistemic and political climate justice 178 Jacobo Ocharan, Velina Petrova and Irene Guijt 15 Towards global environmental governance 194 Julia M. Puaschunder 16 Transition agendas: going beyond consumerism? 204 Boris Manov and Asen Balabanov PART V KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE 17 Scientific knowledge for the Anthropocene 213 Marc Zimmer 18 The sciences of knowledge 225 Francisco Javier Carrillo 19 Knowledge as world capital: global knowledge 240 Alexander Ruser 20 Adaptive value of traditional knowledge 249 Michael Blakeney PART VI IMAGINATION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE 21 Designing post-human futures 263 Raphaële Bidault-Waddington 22 Integral ecology: reconnecting nature, culture, and knowledge 276 Sam Mickey 23 Visuality conditions under the Anthropocene 284 Irmgard Emmelhainz 24 The aesthesis of plastic capitalism 297 Amanda Boetzkes PART VII CO-CREATING FUTURES 25 Democracy in the Anthropocene 307 David W. Orr 26 Envisioning scenarios for the Anthropocene 316 David Arthur Sampson 27 The farthest we can see 328 Anthony Hodgson 28 Knowledge for the Anthropocene: an agenda 339 Francisco Javier Carrillo Conclusion to Knowledge For The Anthropocene 358 Günter Koch Index

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Book SynopsisProviding critical insight into the globalization of product conception, production, marketing and distribution, this Handbook comprehensively explores the functioning of global value chains (GVCs) and how they shape the global economy. It provides theoretical, analytical and empirically based policy-relevant tools to understand international production and trade in the modern global economy. Written by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this Handbook offers expert guidance on GVC analysis and the relationship between GVCs and governance, power relations, gender, upgrading and international development. The contributors also provide insight into strategy, innovation and learning, highlighting the dynamism and resilience of GVCs, and critically reflect on how GVCs affect inequality and the nature of work and production. Comprising empirically rich and innovative research, this Handbook will be critical reading for advanced undergraduate and master's level students interested in international business, global industries, sustainable development and the governance of global production systems. Academics researching and teaching in these fields will also benefit from this book's broad and comprehensive approach to GVC analysis.Trade Review'Finally, an encyclopaedia of global value chains. This collection of essays establishes the state of the art in knowledge on the industrial form - the GVC - that has transformed capitalism for better and worse and which is at the centre of contemporary scholarship and policy debates on economic development, distributive justice and international trade. This is an essential collection of essays that covers the micro and macro dimensions of the global value chain, including implications for gender equality, technological innovation and social activism. I guarantee that I (and my students) will be using this volume as a go-to reference book for years to come.' --William Milberg, The New School for Social Research, US'This is the book on global value chains. With contributions from many leading lights of the GVC approach, and rising star early career academics, it provides a comprehensive understanding of the analysis of power, governance and distributive outcomes of globalisation in trade and production, and identifies key challenges for GVC research in the 21st century.' --Khalid Nadvi, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook on Global Value Chains Stefano Ponte, Gary Gereffi, Gale Raj-Reichert Part I: Mapping, Measuring and Analyzing GVCs 1. Global Value Chain Mapping Stacey Frederick 2. Global Value Chain Analysis: A Primer Karina Fernandez-Stark, Gary Gereffi 3. Measuring Global Value Chains Timothy Sturgeon 4. Global Value Chains and Quantitative Macro-Comparative Sociology Matthew C. Mahutga 5. Modelling Global Value Chains: Approaches and Insights from Economics Davin Chor Part II: Governance, Power and Inequality 6. Governance and Power in Global Value Chains Stefano Ponte, Timothy Sturgeon and Mark Dallas 7. Governance and Upgrading in Global Cultural and Creative Value Chains Joonkoo Lee and Minjung Lee 8. Rents and Inequality in Global Value Chains Raphael Kaplinsky 9. On Value in Value Chains Elizabeth Havice, John Pickles 10. Global Value Chains and Uneven Development: A Disarticulations Perspective Marion Werner, Jennifer Bair 11. Contestation and Activism in Global Value Chains Florence Palpacuer 12. Bringing the Environment into GVC Analysis: Antecedents and Advances Liam Campling, Elizabeth Havice 13. Sustainability, Global Value Chains and Green Capital Accumulation Stefano Ponte Part III: The Multiple Dimensions of GVC Upgrading 14. Economic Upgrading in Global Value Chains Gary Gereffi 15. Measuring and Analyzing Services in Global Value Chains Patrick Low 16. Social Upgrading Ariana Rossi 17. Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Value Chains Peter Lund-Thomsen 18. Livelihood Upgrading Jeff Neilson 19. Environmental Upgrading in Global Value Chains Valentina De Marchi, Eleonora Di Maria, Aarti Krishnan, Stefano Ponte 20. Gender Dynamics in Global Value Chains Stephanie Barrientos Part IV: Strategy, Innovation and Learning 21. Firm-level Strategy and Global Value Chains Mari Sako, Ezequiel Zylberberg 22. The Role of Transnational first-tier Suppliers in GVC Governance Gale Raj-Reichert 23. Innovation in Global Value Chains Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli, Roberta Rabellotti 24. Local Firm-level Learning and Capability in Global Value Chain Cornelia Staritz, Lindsay Whitfield 25. Local Clusters and Global Value Chains Eleonora Di Maria, Valentina De Marchi, Gary Gereffi 26. International Business and Global Value Chains Noemi Sinkovics, Rudolf R. Sinkovics 27. Supply Chain Management and Global Value Chains Ruggero Golini, Matteo Kalchschmidt Part V: International Development and Public Policy 28. Compressed Development Timothy Sturgeon, D. Hugh Whittaker 29. GVCs and Development: Policy Formulation for Economic and Social Upgrading Penny Bamber, Karina Fernandez-Stark 30. Economic Upgrading through Global Value Chain Participation: Which Policies increase the Value added Gains? 31. Industrialization Paths and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries in Global Value Chains Victor Stolzenburg, Daria Taglioni, Deborah Winkler 32. International Trade Policy and Global Value Chains Shamel Azmeh 33. Public-Private Partnerships in Global Value Chains Ajmal Abdulsamad, Hernan Manson 34. The Roles of the State in Global Value Chains Rory Horner, Matthew Alford 35. International Development Organizations and Global Value Chains Frederick Mayer, Gary Gereffi Epilogue Gale Raj-Reichert, Gary Gereffi and Stefano Ponte Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook provides a conceptual discussion and a wide empirical presentation of new disruptive forms of innovation producing appropriate technologies, addressing the needs of low-income populations, and providing alternative solutions for sustainable development. The Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development expertly analyses and compares contributions of appropriate technologies in developing, emerging and industrialized economies, including China and India, and their global development impacts. Additionally, it covers the transversal role of new international communication technologies, open access, digital tools as well as entrepreneurship and innovation from within emerging economies and in industrialized nations. Using empirical analyses of cases and experiences in manufacturing sectors and services, it covers both the formal and informal economy, and provides an insightful focus on differences and similarities across borders and sectors. NGO and private sector practitioners, public sector officers as well as academics specialized in development economics, entrepreneurship and engineering or management studies will find this Handbook to be illuminating and very informative. Science and technology producers and entrepreneurs will appreciate the global look into more sustainable development as related to appropriate technologies, and how they can be used across all economic backgrounds.Trade Review‘Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development is an outstanding contribution to bring out the progress of such innovations and appropriate technologies helpful for the development of people across the world. This book serves as a value pack for researchers, scholars and, in particular, practitioners working in the area of technology development and entrepreneurship for local community sustainable development impacts, and how they can be commercialised through various public–private inroads.’ -- Raunak Gupta, The Journal of Entrepreneurship‘The chapter authors take a comprehensive and eclectic approach to “global engineering” in all its aspects, from academic research and learning, to practical approaches by international organizations and NGOs, to the experience of practitioners and communities who experimented with appropriate technologies — or were experimented on with them. This compendium explains the origin stories of the pathbreaking practitioners and organizations, and provides both the traditional socio-economic and political frameworks for appropriate technologies as well as the new, somewhat controversial, decolonization narrative, with a range of LMIC examples. The human aspect gets attention, including the need for protection of subjects and participants, and the ethical dimensions, with the limitations university’s institutional review processes may face about collection and analysis of data, use of AI and machine learning techniques to tease out insights and learning, to making these analyses available to the non-specialist as well as to the participants and other stakeholders. The scholar, the practitioner, the student, and the innovators will all find things to like and reflect on as we move from appropriate technologies to the broader intellectual and political context for applying what we learn to engage with the poor to improve their lives.’ -- Paul M Cadario, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development xiv Daniel Frey, Samuel Pierre, Philippe Régnier, Koshy Varghese and Pascal Wild PART I APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY: ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF A CONCEPT 1 Revisiting the concept of “technology for the people”: from Gandhi and Schumacher to 21st century new developments 2 Philippe Régnier and Pascal Wild 2 MIT D-Lab: designing for a more equitable world 7 Amy Smith and Nancy Adams 3 Solving problems and strengthening systems: how local innovation of appropriate technology contributes to development 22 Elizabeth Hoffecker and Boru Douthwaite PART II THE RISE OF EMERGING ECONOMIES AND NEW CONTRIBUTIONS 4 The rise of emerging economies: implications on appropriate technology development in theory and practice 47 Philippe Régnier and Pascal Wild 5 Entrepreneurship, appropriate technologies and economic development in China 54 Heini Shi 6 Technological transformation in India: the debate between appropriate and frontier technologies 71 Binod Khadria and Ratnam Mishra PART III RECENT INNOVATIONS AND APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES IN TRANSFORMATION 7 Technology evaluation for global development: exploring the efficiency of comparative methods 87 Daniel Frey and Bish Sanyal 8 Mobilizing higher education and research toward engineering for global development: the approach taken by the Centre for Global Engineering 103 Ahmed Mahmoud, Amy Bilton, Morris Huang, Levente Diosady and Yu-Ling Cheng 9 The participatory design spectrum: design for, with, and by 125 Kendra Leith, Sher Vogel and Khanjan Mehta 10 Frugal engineering 140 Rao Balkrishna 11 Financial technologies and rapid development growth in emerging economies 154 Jane Khayesi 12 Openness and new development perspectives 168 Abdelhamid Benhmade 13 How technologies can be used to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development in Haiti: the case of the PIGraN Project 187 Samuel Pierre 14 Ethical considerations for “Internet of Things” in research to advance global development 207 Daniel Sweeney, Amit Gandhi and Evan Thomas 15 High-stake conditions to catalyse local sustainable development through Fablabs in Africa 222 Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou 16 The importance of local institutions: bottom‐up innovation in Uganda 240 Joe Amick and Roy William Mayega 17 How locally adapted information and communication technologies (ICTs) may contribute to the citizens’ socio-economic conditions in emerging countries: case study in the DR Congo 259 Musandji Fuamba Index

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Book SynopsisPoverty and Prosperity: Tourism in Rural China focuses on tourism and rural community development in the light of Confucianism and Taoism. Drawing from ethnographic field research in Southern China, the authors present an evolutionary as well as a horizontal view of tourism and rural community development through an illustrative case. Narratives from villagers involved in (or affected by) tourism development in the case study village are highly embedded in, and culturally informative of, rural community development with Chinese characteristics. A valuable source of reference and an addition to the pro-poor tourism knowledge, this book offers an epistemologically unique and much needed perspective on researching and practicing tourism for poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Poverty Chapter 2. Tourism and Development Chapter 3. Poverty Alleviation through Tourism in China Chapter 4. Methodological Approaches Chapter 5. The Budding of Tourism Chapter 6. Spontaneous Growth Chapter 7. The Golden Age Chapter 8. A Stagnation of Development Chapter 9. Tourism and Rural Community Chapter 10. Imbalanced Development Chapter 11. A Comparative Lens Chapter 12. The Shuiji Model

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Book SynopsisThis contemporary Research Agenda examines the threats to stability and sustainability presented by economically motivated crime and misconduct. Featuring contributions from distinguished experts in the field of criminal law and justice, this book proposes avenues for future research into the legal frameworks designed to prevent and manage economic crime and corruption. Barry Rider begins by considering the importance of discouraging economically relevant criminals from undermining the efficacy and stability of global economies. Chapters analyse a myriad of topics, including the economic crime-related repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic, the development of small state financial centres, and the key measures adopted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to combat corruption. The book concludes by examining comparative perspectives in fighting organised crime, featuring case studies involving human trafficking and issues of compliance. A Research Agenda for Economic Crime and Development will be an essential resource for scholars and academics studying criminal law and justice, economic crime and corruption, and law and development. It will also be beneficial to criminal and regulatory lawyers, policymakers, and researchers interested in the prevention of economic crime.Trade Review‘Professor Barry Rider OBE has been the leading academic on economic crime since the early 1980s. His important scholarship on financial fraud, and on cross cutting issues including restitution and tort liability, has shaped the academic field and set the agenda for the cooperation between different government agencies. This book introduces a fresh and important research agenda for economic crime and development, challenging traditional assumptions, and confronting the real damage that economic crime can do to the economies of the world.’ -- Mads Andenas KC, University of Oslo, Norway and University of London, UK‘A Research Agenda for Economic Crime and Development seamlessly weaves together a compendium of insightful, thought-provoking pieces written by established, and emerging, scholars and legal practitioners. Professor Barry Rider and all the contributors should be commended for producing this timely must-read for academics, policymakers and anyone concerned with the much overlooked, yet fundamental, inter-relationship between economic crime and developmental issues.’ -- Shazeeda Ali, University of the West Indies, JamaicaTable of ContentsContents: Foreword xv Preface xix 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Economic Crime and Development 1 Barry Rider 2 Stability, security and sustainable development 47 Ingrida Kerusauskaite 3 Economic crime in developing and transition economies 75 Dayanath Jayasuriya 4 Corruption and development 93 Patrick Rappo 5 Anti-money laundering, suspect wealth and development 117 Dominic Thomas-James 6 International interventions and sovereignty 137 Rohan Clarke 7 Governance, integrity and sustainability – joining the dots? 155 Chizu Nakajima 8 FATF measures and the combating of corruption in developing countries 175 Louis de Koker 9 Comparative perspectives in fighting organized crime 205 Antonello Miranda Index

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Book SynopsisOpening novel avenues of knowledge in the study of African philanthropy and development, this incisive book provides a critical assessment of philanthropic responses during crisis and non-crisis periods. It explores how collaboration between multilateral institutions and philanthropic organisations during a crisis can be harnessed and replicated to address the continent’s developmental challenges during non-crisis periods. Combining empirical insights with cutting edge theory, this forward-thinking book investigates the activities of high-net worth individuals, foundations, and corporate actors working with governments to create shared value. Through individual case studies and comparative analyses across diverse sectors and geographies, chapters demonstrate how shared value is crucial to building resilience in societies through philanthropy. The book ultimately makes a call for deeper and more meaningful forms of collaboration among the key actors in society: governments, the private sector, high-net worth individuals, and multilateral institutions. This highly innovative book will be an essential resource for researchers and academics interested in development studies, the sociology of organisations, and social policy in developing countries. Its empirical grounding will also inform policy responses in crisis and non-crisis periods.Trade Review‘African Philanthropy now leads the field in advancing our understanding of the dynamics of philanthropy in Africa. This exceptional study has both theoretical power and exceptionally valuable case studies, and its focus on the impact of Covid-19 on African philanthropy and civil society is an especially valuable contribution. Scholars, activists, practitioners and academic libraries will find this an invaluable resource to understanding the rapidly changing face of philanthropy and civil society in Africa.’ -- Mark Sidel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US‘This innovative book showcases the amazing strength of Africans to take responsibility for their own development challenge through giving, apart from external largesse. It's a great opportunity to expand African philanthropy as an academic discipline and also a development model. It also highlights how indispensable non-state actors are in African development.’ -- Hany Besada, United Nations University-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, Ghana‘Philanthropy has always played a significant role in improving human wellbeing and advancing social change. In Africa, attention has predominantly focused on the role of external philanthropy. In this volume the authors track and document the incredible transformation in African philanthropy over the last two decades. They draw much needed attention to the architecture of African philanthropy and the increasingly important role of African philanthropy on the continent.’ -- Gyude Moore, Center for Global DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: African philanthropic responses in times of crisis 1 Bhekinkosi Moyo, Mzukisi Qobo and Nomfundo Xenia Ngwenya 2 African philanthropy prior to the Covid-19 pandemic: types, trends and effectiveness in responding to Africa’s developmental needs 7 Jacob Mwathi Mati 3 The role of philanthropy in supporting development through African multilateral institutions in crisis and non-crisis periods 22 Nomfundo Xenia Ngwenya 4 The impact of Covid-19 on civil society organisations in Africa 38 Keratiloe Mogotsi, Wycliffe Nduga Ouma, and Bhekinkosi Moyo 5 When Covid-19 meets philanthropy: the role of African philanthropy in addressing the socio-economic impact of Covid-19 in Ghana 55 Emmanuel Kumi 6 ‘Steering’ or ‘freeing’ civil society? Philanthropy towards social justice campaigns in South Africa during Covid-19 73 Shauna Mottiar 7 Digital solutions and philanthropy: improving coordination between philanthropists, governments, and non-state actors in Africa 86 Oswald Jumira 8 Comparative multilateral philanthropy: the cases of the European Union Commission and the Asian Development Bank on crisis and non-crisis philanthropic engagements 104 Faten Aggad 9 Corporate philanthropy and regional multilateral institutions in Africa 123 Rebecca Mhere 10 Improving coordination between multilateral institutions and philanthropists: a view from high-net worth individuals 142 Tendai Murisa 11 Challenges and opportunities for improving coordination between multilateral institutions and philanthropists: a view from charitable foundations 164 Geci Karuri-Sebina, Fred Carden and Frederick Beckley 12 Orienting philanthropy towards regional solutions 178 Bhekinkosi Moyo and Katiana Sandra Ramsamy 13 Conclusion 194 Bhekinkosi Moyo, Mzukisi Qobo and Nomfundo Xenia Ngwenya Index

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Book SynopsisCo-edited by the president of Georgia Tech, one of America’s leading research universities, Higher Education and SDG17: Partnerships for the Goals demonstrates how higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to act as catalysts, conveners, and supporters of key partnerships to help advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Featuring authors from higher education institutions, educational networks, and governing bodies around the globe, chapters provide case studies, inspiration, reflections, and critical perspectives from a variety of geographies, disciplines, and partners on how HEI partnerships can rapidly accelerate progress on the goals. Responding to an urgent need for a mind shift towards collaboration and collective action, this is a uniquely global roadmap for higher education leaders, students, faculty, staff, and other partners, to take on the immense challenge of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Higher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals is a series of 17 books that address each of the SDGs in turn specifically through the lens of higher education. Adopting a solutions-based approach, each book focuses on how higher education is advancing delivery of sustainable development and the United Nations global goals. The series is edited by Wendy Purcell, Professor with Rutgers University and Academic Research Scholar with Harvard University; Emeritus Professor and University President Emerita.Trade ReviewThis is a timely book, which will provide a concrete support to the debate on SDG17 and on the actions which the higher education community should take in order to pursue its implementation. -- Walter LealAs a book series, Higher Education and the SDGs will make an important contribution to accelerating delivery against the global goals. To start the series with the book on Partnerships for the Goals, possibly the most decisive SDG, makes perfect sense and is highly symbolic since accomplishing the sixteen other ones largely depends on cooperation and collaboration among all relevant stakeholders. This book impressively shows the important role of higher education in teaming up with actors from various other sectors to meet the ambitious aims of the Agenda 2030 collectively. -- Prof. Andreas KaplanThe book series Higher Education and the SDGs will make a valuable contribution to policy dialogue and higher education practices in achieving the SDGs. This first book in the series on Higher Education for Partnerships for the Goals highlights a range of partnerships, discusses some successful partnership cases and explore ways to enhance the impact of higher education partnerships to accelerate progress towards SDGs. -- Qudsia KalsoomTable of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction; Ángel Cabrera and Drew Cutright Chapter 2. SDG 17 and the Role of Universities; Nikhil Seth Chapter 3. Mobilizing Higher Education Action on the SDGs: Insights from System Change Approaches; Tahl S. Kestin, Julio Lumbreras, and María Cortés Puch Chapter 4. Towards Global Equity in Higher Education; Joanna Newman Chapter 5. Rethinking Partnerships in our Lived Spaces: A Key to Achieving the SDGs; Susan T.L. Harrison and Maano Ramutsindela Chapter 6. The Power of Intergenerational Partnership: Students, Universities, and SDG 17; Sam Vaghar, Summer Wyatt-Buchan, Shriya Dayal, Srijan Banik, and Ayushi Nahar Chapter 7. Global Shared Learning by Tecnológico de Monterrey: An International Partnership for Sustainable Development Education; Luz Patricia Montaño-Salinas and José Manuel Páez-Borrallo Chapter 8. Drawdown Georgia Business Compact: A Partnership Advancing Collective Action for Climate Mitigation; Marilyn A. Brown, Jasmine Crowe, John Lanier, Michael Oxman, Roy Richards, Jr. and L. Beril Toktay

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative Handbook provides an interdisciplinary appraisal of the field of return migration, advancing concepts and theories and setting an agenda for new debates. Structured into four parts, the Handbook maps the contemporary field of return migration, examining the effects and politicisation of return migration, before moving on to explore the theme of reintegration and the impact of return migration on development in the migrants’ countries of origin. Taking an intersectional approach, expert contributors delve into the economics of return migration, deportation, the psychological wellbeing of migrants, student mobility and second-generation ‘return’ migration. The Handbook opens up new avenues for research, including new theories and conceptualisations of return migration, and articulates key issues that should be considered, both for research and for policy and practice. This Handbook will be a valuable resource for scholars and advanced students interested in migration and human rights. Its use of empirical examples and case studies will also be beneficial for policy-makers seeking an insight into the current issues in return migration.Trade Review‘Russell King and Katie Kuschminder have brought together a multidisciplinary team to cover return migration from multiple conceptual, theoretical, empirical and political angles. The volume focuses on the intersection of these approaches to provide a general but also detailed survey of the field. Given the multidisciplinary nature of this collection, this volume will be useful across the field of migration studies as well as within the specific discipline approach of each individual chapter. In particular, scholars and practitioners working in the area of migration and ethics, especially human rights, should find this collection valuable.’ -- James Barry, Ethnic and Racial Studies‘Return migration used to be the Cinderella of migration studies. This Handbook is an indispensable corrective, containing a marvellously rich and diverse collection of case studies together with a “state of the art” review of the relevant literature by the editors.’ -- Robin Cohen, University of Oxford, UK‘In this collection of eye-opening contributions on return migration, Russell King and Katie Kuschminder have assembled a highly productive group of authors who give guidance in this quickly emerging field. The contributions convincingly employ insights from various branches of migration and mobility studies, and establish new ground in topics ranging from assisted return and deportations to reintegration and engagement in local development. The individual chapters draw a differentiated portrait of a crucial but so far underappreciated dimension of migration. We have waited a long time for such a truly stimulating Handbook.’ -- Thomas Faist, Bielefeld University, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: definitions, typologies and theories of return migration 1 Russell King and Katie Kuschminder PART I THEORISING AND CONCEPTUALISING RETURN MIGRATION 2 The economics of return migration 24 Jackline Wahba 3 Return and transnationalism 38 Özge Bilgili 4 Gendering return migration 53 Russell King and Aija Lulle 5 Theorising voluntariness in return 70 Marta Bivand Erdal and Ceri Oeppen 6 Departheid: re-politicising the inhumane treatment of illegalised migrants in so-called liberal democratic states 84 Barak Kalir 7 Return visits and other return mobilities 96 Md Farid Miah PART II THE POLITICISATION OF RETURN MIGRATION 8 Critical reflections on assisted return programmes and practices 108 Ine Lietaert 9 The contours of deportation studies 122 Martin Lemberg-Pedersen 10 The Return Directive: clarifying the scope and substance of the rights of migrants facing expulsion from the EU 137 Alan Desmond 11 The return industry: the case of the Netherlands 153 Marieke van Houte 12 The legitimisation of the policy objective of sustainable reintegration 167 Rossella Marino and Ine Lietaert 13 Corruption and return migration 185 Erlend Paasche PART III EXPERIENCES OF RETURN AND REINTEGRATION 14 Reintegration strategies 200 Katie Kuschminder 15 Labour migrants and the retirement–return nexus 212 Claudio Bolzman 16 Return migration and psychosocial wellbeing 226 Zana Vathi 17 The return migration of children: (re)integration is not always plain sailing 241 Daina Grosa 18 Student mobility: between returning home and remaining abroad 255 Elisa Alves 19 Returning lifestyle migrants 270 Katie Walsh 20 Revisiting second-generation ‘return’ migration to the ancestral homeland 283 Nilay Kılınç 21 Return migration experiences: the case of Central and Eastern Europe 299 Anne White PART IV RETURN MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT 22 Exploring the return migration and development nexus 314 Russell King 23 Diaspora return and knowledge transfer 331 Charlotte Mueller 24 Return migration, entrepreneurship and development 344 Giulia Sinatti Index

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative Handbook provides a thorough exploration of development policy from both scholarly and practical perspectives and offers insights into the policy process dynamics and a range of specific policy issues, including corruption and network governance.Chapters deliver critical analyses of complex issues within the economic, social, technological and environmental development sectors, such as climate change and environmental protection. This important Handbook synthesises diverse perspectives on policies and their implications for development, and features regional and country-specific case studies highlighting the field‘s expansive nature. The editors bring together leading contributors who deliver insightful research into topics such as human rights, policy networks and development policy praxis.With an accessible and comprehensive approach, this Handbook will appeal to practitioners exploring development policy issues and be welcomed by scholars and researchers looking to gain an insight into the world of development.Trade Review‘This book provides a detailed, expert forensic analysis of policymaking and governance within global development, bringing together an academic and practice perspective to show how development governance and policymaking can be improved and strengthened. This collection captures and explores the growing complexity and polycentric nature of global development policy, and the new challenges (including climate emergency, prolonged financial crisis, and the impact of global pandemic) such policy is required to respond to and engage with. Together, the contributions make a powerful case for embedding policymaking and analysis within specific contexts (thinking global, acting local), within accurate and up-to-date quantitative and qualitative data, and within a conscious critical thinking approach. For anyone seeking to understand how and where global development policy is constructed, how this has shifted over the first two decades of the twenty-first century as new issues and challenges have emerged, and how these processes have impacted in (and been shaped by) different regional contexts, this is an essential addition to the development thinker and practitioner’s library.’ -- Michael Jennings, SOAS University of London, UK‘This excellent book covers the entire field of development policy with a thoroughness to be admired. It is well written in a knowledgeable style. Great work!‘ -- Richard Peet, Institute for Human Geography, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xxi Introduction: the panorama of development policy 1 Habib Zafarullah and Ahmed Shafiqul Huque PART I EXPLORING THE FIELD 1 Development policy: ideas and practice 12 Habib Zafarullah and Ahmed Shafiqul Huque 2 Twenty-first-century horizons of development 25 Jan Nederveen Pieterse 3 Development policy and governance in the Global South: towards a multilevel governance framework 35 Charles Conteh 4 Inclusive economic growth policies: myth vs reality 48 Anis Chowdhury 5 Addressing inequality: policy options in emerging and developing countries 68 Edward Anderson 6 Poverty and policy in the developing world: before and after the pandemic 79 M.G. Quibria 7 Human rights and development: policy perspectives 91 Bård A. Andreassen 8 Social networks, social capital and development 104 Manoj K. Shrestha 9 Development and the environment: the appalling story stated 115 Tony Lynch and Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan 10 Development ethics in policy and practice 126 Jay Drydyk and Lori Keleher 11 The development–environment nexus: promises and perils of global governance 137 Shawkat Alam 12 Sustainable Development Goals: framework and progress 147 Thomas Pogge 13 South–South cooperation, realpolitik and the changing global aid architecture: exploring the role of Southern aid providers in development cooperation 159 Fahimul Quadir PART II DEVELOPMENT ISSUES 14 Gender and development policy 172 Janet Momsen 15 Rural development: the significance of agriculture and non-farm economy 182 Sosina Bezu 16 Infrastructure development governance: taking stock of emerging policy issues 192 Tharun Dolla and Boeing Laishram 17 Public–private partnerships in development policy: strategic and infrastructure approaches 205 Lena Brogaard 18 Corruption as a development policy issue: an overview of contemporary research and practice 215 Till Hartmann 19 International non-governmental organizations in development: humanitarian contexts and ethical concerns 227 Gerard Clarke 20 Industrial policy in the twenty-first century: competing perspectives 238 Laurids S. Lauridsen 21 Social rights of citizenship: current problems and policy issues 249 Mehnaaz Momen 22 Refugees and humanitarian policy: development perspectives 259 Amanda Gray Meral and Veronique Barbelet 23 Microfinance and development: policy perspectives 271 Eva Terberger and Adalbert Winkler 24 International development volunteering as alternative public diplomacy 283 Rebecca Tiessen and Benjamin J. Lough 25 Global public health law: implications for development policy 293 George F. Tomossy 26 On the short- and long-run effects of social safety nets 302 Jorge Tovar 27 Climate capitalism or carbon colonialism? The critical features of climate change adaptation and mitigation policies 313 Nowrin Tabassum PART III POLICY MECHANICS 28 Foundations for effective development policy 325 Mark Turner 29 Transnational policy networks and development 333 Kidjie Saguin and Michael Howlett 30 Network governance: implications for development 345 Patamawadee Jongruck and Panom Gunawong 31 Development aid and the ‘ownership’ principle in development policy 355 Mohammad Mizanur Rahman 32 Digital technologies and public policy: chasing human development 366 Raúl Zambrano 33 Development policy and impact evaluation: learning and accountability in private sector development 378 Giel Ton PART IV REGIONAL FOCUS 34 Monetary policy challenges in developing economies: focus on Asia 392 Syed M. Ahmed 35 Unequal citizenship and unequal outcomes: limits of education and health policy innovations in Latin America 404 Claudia M. Díaz Ríos, Mathieu J.P. Poirier and Michelle L. Dion 36 Inclusive education: policies and practice in the small states of the Caribbean 416 Carel Hodge 37 Social policy development and its obstacles: an analysis of the South Asian welfare geography during and after the ‘social turn’ 425 Gabriele Koehler, Stefan Kühner and Daniel Neff 38 Community-based forestry and development in Asia: policy issues 437 Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt 39 Tackling poverty and deprivation in Southeast Asia: policies, performance and challenges 447 Noore Alam Siddiquee and Mohammad Hamiduzzaman PART V COUNTRY CASES 40 Physical infrastructure, the rural bureaucracy and the neoliberal development project 462 Shelley Feldman 41 Medium-term development planning in Ghana: capacity constraints and outcomes 473 James Kwame Mensah, Justice Nyigmah Bawole, Farhad Hossain and Anthony Sumnaya Kumasey 42 Patterns of combating corruption in Asia: evaluating the effectiveness of the Anti-Corruption Commission in Bangladesh 485 Jon S.T. Quah 43 Pragmatic instrumentalization of policy learning: market transition, changing welfare systems and state–third sector organization relationships in China 497 Ka Ho Mok 44 Constructing knowledge: the case of secondary education governance policies in Bangladesh 510 Subrata S. Dhar 45 Democratic decentralization and citizenship: exploring caste, Church and capability in Kerala’s People’s Plan 521 Tamara Nair 46 Spatial justice, livelihood challenges and the urban poor in the Global South: lessons from Bangladesh 532 Lutfun Nahar Lata and M. Adil Khan Index 544

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Book SynopsisThis Handbook is a critical resource for carefully considering the possibilities and challenges of strategically integrating participatory action research (PAR) and community development (CD). Utilizing practical examples from diverse contexts across five continents, it looks at how communities are empowering themselves and bringing about systemic change.Chapters provide models for sustainably integrating the two practices and explore the transformative potential of decolonizing innovations and incorporating community organizing. With contributions by leading scholars and practitioners from the global south and north, the Handbook explores ways to build infrastructure to bring PAR and CD together, how to use PAR and CD to build people’s power and capacity, and how to integrate PAR and CD in relation to community and organizational capacity building. It further gives practical advice and academic analysis on youth PAR, how to use PAR and CD in crisis situations such as earthquakes and pandemics, and envisions radically alternative PAR and CD approaches.This is a timely resource for social science scholars looking to better understand PAR as an important research method. It rethinks the theories underpinning both PAR and CD, offering important lessons for community development practitioners and non-profit professionals, as well as higher education professors interested in community engagement.Trade Review‘The authors in this illuminating volume represent a diverse array of places, positions, and participatory initiatives. Their thoughtful analyses of their specific contexts and approaches to knowledge production and community change offer rich theoretical insights and examples that will be useful to students, faculty, and practitioners interested in collaborative research and action.’ -- Julie L. Plaut, Brown University, US‘By combining PAR and Community Development, the editors frame each article’s commitment to praxis for social change within the radical traditions of global south educators and activists such as Friere, Fals Borda, and Rahman. The various cases range from rural to urban, national to global, and cover issues from health and the environment to homelessness and community planning. For anyone studying or implementing community-based collaborations for research and action projects, this book offers a treasure trove of innovative case studies and inspirational possibilities. For anyone, like me, who still holds fast to the potential of engaged research for social justice, even in the face of neoliberal universities hell-bent on sucking the life blood out of faculty and students in search of a more just and humane world, this book is a lifeline.’ -- Corey Dolgon, Stonehill College, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction: reflecting upon the development of participatory action research and community development efforts 1 Randy Stoecker and Adrienne Falcón PART I STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES FOR INTEGRATING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2 Flipping the script: community-initiated urban research with the Liberal Arts Action Lab 23 Megan Brown, Jack Dougherty, and Jeff Partridge 3 Toward a community development science shop model: insights from Peterborough, Haliburton and the Kawartha Lakes 43 Randy Stoecker, Todd Barr, and Mark Skinner 4 Elevating community voices 60 Jenice Meyer and Katelyn Baumann 5 Sociocultural intervention as a resource for social transformation in Cuban communities of the twenty-first century 80 Manuel Martínez Casanova and Adrienne Falcón PART II ORGANIZING COMMUNITIES 6 Community organizing for environmental change: integrating research in support of organized actions 99 Dadit G. Hidayat and Molly Schwebach 7 The birth of a community of practice in Québec to support community organizations leading participatory action research as a tool for community development: what it teaches us 118 Lucie Gélineau, Sophie Dupéré, Marie-Jade Gagnon, Lyne Gilbert, Isabel Bernier, Nicole Bouchard, Julie Richard, and Marie-Hélène Deshaies 8 The centrality of storytelling at the nexus of academia and community organizing in rural Kentucky 139 Nicole Breazeale, Dana Beasley-Brown, Samantha Johnson, and Alexa Hatcher PART III BUILDING ORGANIZATIONS AND NEIGHBORHOODS 9 Putting theory into practice: leveraging community-based research to achieve community-based outcomes in DeLand, Florida 160 Maxwell Droznin, Kelsey Maglio, Asal M. Johnson, Cristian Cuevas, and Shilretha Dixon 10 From mission to praxis in neighborhood work: lessons learned from a three-year faculty/community development initiative 180 Laura L. O’Toole, Nancy E. Gordon, and Jessica L. Walsh 11 Early childhood wellness through asset-based community development: a participatory evaluation of Communities Acting for Kids’ Empowerment 200 Farrah Jacquez, Michael Topmiller, Jamie-Lee Morris, Alexander Shelton, Cynthia Wooten, Lakisha A. Best, Alan Dicken, Monica Arenas-Losacker, Giovanna Alvarez, Crystal Davis, and Shanah Cole 12 The complexities of participatory action research: a community development project in Bangladesh 218 Larry Stillman, Misita Anwar, Gillian Oliver, Viviane Frings-Hessami, Anindita Sarker, and Nova Ahmed PART IV GROWING YOUTH POWER 13 Youth participatory action research as an approach to developing community-level responses to youth homelessness in the United States: learning from Advocates for Richmond Youth 239 M. Alex Wagaman, Kimberly S. Compton, Tiffany S. Haynes, Jae Lange, Elaine G. Williams, and Rae Caballero Obejero 14 Volunteerism as a vehicle for civil society development in Ukraine: a community-based project to develop youth volunteerism in a Ukrainian community 259 Danielle Stevens, Tetiana Kidruk, and Oleh Petrus 15 Design your neighborhood: the evolution of a city-wide urban design learning initiative in Nashville, Tennessee 281 Kathryn Y. Morgan, Brian D. Christens, and Melody Gibson PART V RESPONDING TO CRISIS 16 Rethinking participatory development in the context of a strong state 302 Ming Hu 17 Tracing power from within: learning from participatory action research and community development projects in food systems during the COVID-19 pandemic 321 Laura Jessee Livingston 18 The information and knowledge landscapes of mutual aid: how librarians can use participatory action research to support social movements in community development 341 Alessandra Seiter PART VI EXPANDING OUR THINKING 19 Be and build the city: an experience of sociopraxis in Cuenca, Ecuador 359 Ana Elisa Astudillo and Ana Cecilia Salazar 20 Leading with locally produced knowledge: development in Jemna, Tunisia 379 Ihsan Mejdi and Celeste Koppe 21 Relationship as resistance: partnership and vivencia in participatory action research 394 José Wellington Sousa 22 Re-storying participatory action research: a narrative approach to challenging epistemic violence in community development 415 Daniel Bryan and Chelsea Viteri Index

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Book SynopsisSocial Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers, who represent over 60 per cent of the global workforce, to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations, illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust.Bridging social contract theories, both mainstream and critical, and the experiences of informal workers – self-employed, wage employed and sub-contracted – this book sheds light on how many existing social contract models stigmatize informal workers and do not offer legal or social protection. Instead of ideologically driven ‘top-down’ calls to revitalize the social contract, it advocates for ‘bottom-up’ initiatives focused on the demands of the working poor in the informal economy.With a wealth of cross-national evidence, as well as promising case studies, this timely and thought-provoking book will prove vital for scholars and researchers of informal workers and of state-capital-labour relations; and for policy makers negotiating new social contracts.Trade Review‘An original and insightful contribution to rethinking the social contract. Instead of prescribing from above, the authors redirect attention to the perspective of informal workers, to their needs, demands and agency, and to the new realities of informality exposed by COVID-19, digital employment, and new forms of collective action.’ -- Kate Meagher, London School of Economics, UK'Informal work arrangements predominate in developing countries and are increasing in rich nations. How should we deal with this? This book makes a novel case for an approach based on social contracts that recognise informal workers as legitimate economic agents, and therefore include them in social dialogue and policy-making and rule-setting processes. Such imaginative thinking about informality is urgent and necessary.' -- Jayati Ghosh, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US‘Most people work in the informal sector and yet our social contracts often exclude them. This volume provides compelling evidence from around the world as to why a better social contract for all of us would provide great security and opportunity for the world’s informal sector workers. A must read for those who care about creating a fairer world.’ -- Minouche Shafik, London School of Economics, UK and author of What We Owe Each Other: A New Social ContractTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: social contracts and informal workers in the global South 1 Sophie Plagerson, Laura Alfers and Martha Chen 1 Recognition, responsiveness and reciprocity: what informal worker leaders expect from the state, the private sector and themselves 31 Sally Roever and Ana Carolina Ogando 2 Self-employment and social contracts: from the perspective of the informal self-employed 49 Martha Chen 3 “Dependent Contractor”: towards the recognitions of a new labor category 73 Françoise Carré 4 Taxation and the informal sector in the global South: strengthening the social contract without reciprocity? 85 Michael Rogan 5 Towards a more inclusive social protection: informal workers and the struggle for a new social contract 106 Laura Alfers and Rachel Moussié 6 Extended Producer Responsibility: opportunities and challenges for waste pickers 126 Taylor Cass Talbott 7 Human rights and transnational social contracts: the recognition and inclusion of homeworkers? 144 Marlese von Broembsen 8 Informal workers harnessing the power of digital platforms in India 169 Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur 9 “Essential and disposable? Or just disposable?” Informal workers during COVID-19 189 Sarah Orleans Reed Conclusion: Post-pandemic epilogue – the bad old contract, an even worse contract or a better social contract for informal workers? 216 Laura Alfers, Martha Chen and Sophie Plagerson Index

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Book SynopsisThis exciting and innovative Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive and globally relevant overview of the instruments, actors and design features of social protection systems, as well as their application and impacts in practice. It is the first book that centres around system building globally, a theme that has gained political importance yet has received relatively little attention in academia.Combining academic discussion with cases from the Global South and North, this Handbook offers practical recommendations on how greater harmonization across social protection policies, programmes and delivery mechanisms can be achieved. It also highlights the importance of linkages to other policy fields and issues such as taxation, humanitarian aid and livelihood approaches. Overall, the chapters argue that a systems approach is needed to respond to the individual needs of different groups in society and to face future challenges from demographic change, globalization, automation, climate change and pandemics.Targeting a broad audience, the Handbook on Social Protection Systems bridges the divide in academic debate around social protection in the Global South and North. It will be an invaluable resource for academics, students and practitioners.Trade Review‘The Handbook on Social Protection Systems represents a valuable addition to the literature to understand the dynamics of social policy in the 21st century. The focus on the large and heterogeneous groups of nations usually placed under the category of the 'Global South' is valuable and necessary, not only because of the intense research that the complexity of their social protection policies deserves, but also given the need for specialists of any region, whether students or scholars, as well as public officials, politicians or members of non-governmental and international organisations, to learn from the experiences, issues and cases discussed in the book.’ -- Ricardo Velázquez Leyer, Social Policy & Administration‘A unique tour de force through the world of social protection. The volume is distinguished by a novel systemic approach that takes account of the entire range of instruments, institutions, policies and actors that make up social protection. First-rate experts from more than 20 countries get down to the nitty-gritty of social protection systems, combining overview chapters with exemplary case studies across the global South and North. This Handbook sets new standards! It is highly recommended to researchers and practitioners alike.’Table of ContentsContents: Foreword xxvi Ralf Radermacher Acknowledgements xxvii List of abbreviations xxviii 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Social Protection Systems 1 Markus Loewe and Esther Schüring PART I INSTRUMENTS Introduction: Instruments 38 Chris de Neubourg 2 Social transfers 41 Esther Schüring Case study A: Non-contributory social cash transfers in Zambia 55 Benson Chisanga Case study B: Universal basic income grant in theory and practice 61 Brian Mathebula 3 Social insurance 69 Alexander M. van den Heever Case study C: Transforming healthcare financing in Central and Eastern European countries 79 Mirella Cacace Case study D: Challenges of pension funds in Iran 84 Ali Akbar Taimazinani and Yaser Bagheri 4 Labour market policies 91 Andrea Salvini and Georg Bolits Case study E: Labour market policies in MENA countries 106 Ghada Barsoum 5 Social services 112 Barbara Rohregger 6 Micro-insurance 124 Markus Loewe PART II SYSTEM DESIGN Introduction: System design 136 Markus Loewe 7 Financing 138 Arthur van de Meerendonk 8 Targeting 151 Stephen Devereux 9 Human rights approaches 164 Markus Kaltenborn 10 Actors 174 Esther Schüring and Nicola Wiebe 11 Systematic approaches to social protection 190 Chris de Neubourg, Victor Cebotari and Julia Karpati Case study F: The challenges of moving towards universal social protection in Bolivia 211 Nicola Wiebe Case study G: Comprehensive social protection reform in South Africa 218 Alexander M. van den Heever PART III POLICY COORDINATION Introduction: Policy coordination 224 Daniele Malerba 12 Harmonization of similar instruments 227 Rachel Slater 13 Coordination of different instruments 240 Mira Bierbaum and Veronika Wodsak Case study H: Poverty and social transfer coverage in the Kingdom of Eswatini 253 Bernd Schubert 14 Graduation 263 Rachel Sabates-Wheeler 15 Taxation and social protection 277 Armin von Schiller Case study I: Simplified tax regimes and their impact on social insurance in Uruguay 290 Fernanda Teixeira 16 The humanitarian–development nexus 296 Cécile Cherrier Case study J: Emergency cash transfers in Yemen 308 Francisco V. Ayala Case study K: Humanitarian cash transfer in Palestine 314 Nicola Jones and Bassam Abu Hamad 17 Social budgeting 321 Krzysztof Hagemejer and Wolfgang Scholz PART IV GROUPS IN FOCUS Introduction: Groups in focus 336 Esther Schüring 18 Gender and social protection 338 Nicola Jones Case study L: Gender analysis of social protection in Iran 350 Ali Akbar Taimazinani and Maryam Ebrahimi 19 Disability inclusion and social protection 355 Alexandre Côte 20 Child-sensitive social protection 369 Keetie Roelen 21 The elderly and social protection 379 Luis H. Vargas Faulbaum 22 The informal sector and social protection 390 Jairous J. Miti, Mikko Perkiö, Anna Metteri and Salla Atkins Case study M: Extension of the contributory pension scheme to small-scale farmers in Zambia 404 Jairous J. Miti, Mikko Perkiö, Anna Metteri and Salla Atkins 23 Refugees and social protection 411 Tamara A. Kool and Zina Nimeh PART V ADMINISTRATION Introduction: Administration 425 Valentina Barca 24 Delivering social transfers 427 Valentina Barca and Madhumitha Hebbar 25 Delivering social insurance 438 Dominique La Salle 26 Integrated information management 449 Richard Chirchir 27 Portability 459 Dominique La Salle 28 Decentralization 469 Andrew Wyatt Case study N: Capacity development for social protection in Zambia 482 Benson Chisanga and Jairous J. Miti PART VI POLITICAL ECONOMY Introduction: Political economy 490 Esther Schüring 29 International actors and social protection 492 Jeremy Seekings 30 Public preferences 508 Katja Bender 31 The political economy of social protection adoption 521 Miguel Niño-Zarazúa and Alma Santillán Hernández Case study O: Political economy of social protection in Kenya 537 Barbara Rohregger Case study P: Political economy of the basic income grant in South Africa 542 Brian Mathebula 32 Acceptability of social protection reforms 549 Eszter Timár PART VII EFFECTS Introduction: Effects 560 Francesco Burchi 33 Data and analysis in social protection 562 Franziska Gassmann Case study Q: An evidence and gap map of effectiveness studies: social protection interventions in low- and middle-income countries 578 Ashrita Saran and Latha Radhakrishnan 34 Effects of social protection on poverty and inequality 583 Ludovico Carraro and Marta S.L. Marzi 35 Effects of social protection on food consumption and nutrition 597 Francesco Burchi 36 Effects of social protection on health 609 Christoph Strupat 37 Effects of social protection on economic development 622 Garima Bhalla, Mari Kangasniemi and Natalia Winder Rossi 38 Effects of social protection on social inclusion, social cohesion and nation building 636 Gabriele Köhler PART VIII MAJOR CHALLENGES AND REFORM OPTIONS Introduction: Major challenges and reform options 648 Krzysztof Hagemejer 39 Demographic change 651 John Woodall 40 Globalization 663 Joachim Betz 41 The future of work 676 Franziska Gassmann 42 Climate change 688 Daniele Malerba 43 Pandemics and other macro crises 705 John Woodall Case study R: A humanitarian social protection response to COVID-19 in Kenya 717 Larissa Pelham Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.How can financial services, such as credit, deposit accounts, financial transfers, and insurance be provided to people in need? This challenging and complex issue has been a topic of interest for the international aid community for decades. Drawing on renowned experts in microfinance and financial inclusion, this Research Agenda sheds much-needed light on this multifaceted challenge and points the way ahead for future research.Providing a critical and multidisciplinary approach to research in microfinance and financial inclusion, the authors provide a state-of-the-art overview of current scholarly knowledge on the provision of financial services to disadvantaged populations worldwide. Reviewing the literature on the subject from the fields of economics, management science and development studies, they discuss the limitations and challenges of current research and chart avenues for future developments.With its fascinating insights, this Research Agenda will be of interest to students of finance and economics, development, and business and management, as well as researchers with a specific interest in microfinance and financial inclusion.Contributors include: J. Bastiaensen, A. Cozarenco, B. D'espallier, K.O. Djan, M. Duvendack, A. Garcia, J. Goedecke, I. Guérin, V. Hartarska, B. Hathaway, N. Hermes, F. Huybrechs, R. Lensink, R. Mersland, J. Morduch, S. Morvant, D. Nadolnyak, T. Ogden, J.-M. Servet, T.W. Sommeno, A. Szafarz, G. Van Hecken, B. Venet, L. Weill, T. Wry, S. ZamoreTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I Framing Research On Microfinance And Financial Inclusion 1. The Challenges of Social Investment Through the Microfinance Lens Jonathan Morduch and Timothy Ogden 2. Microfinance and Management Theory Brian Hathaway and Tyler Wry 3. Breaking Away From Ready-Made Remedies and Normative Approaches to Financial Practices Isabelle Guérin, Solène Morvant and Jean-Michel Servet 4. What Do We Really Know About Microfinance Impact? Maren Duvendack Part II Social, Environmental, and Financial Performance 5. Social Performance Measurement in Microfinance Bert D’espallier and Jann Goedecke 6. Microfinance and Financial Inclusion in the Transformation to Environmental Sustainability Johan Bastiaensen, Frédéric Huybrechs and Gert Van Hecken 7. Efficiency and Productivity Analysis of Microfinance Institutions Valentina Hartarska and Denis Nadolnyak Part III Targets for Financial Inclusion 8. Islamic Microfinance Laurent Weill 9. Microfinance Plus: A Review and Avenues for Research Adriana Garcia and Robert Lensink 10. Microfinance in the North: Where Do We Stand? Anastasia Cozarenco and Ariane Szafarz Part IV Institutional and Technological Design 11. Internationalization of the Microfinance Industry Roy Mersland, Stephen Zamore, Kwame Ohene Djan and Tigist Woldetsadik Sommeno 12. Microfinance and Governance Niels Hermes 13. Fintech and Financial Inclusion Baptiste Venet Index

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Book SynopsisChallenging the dominant and mainstream views in global development, this pioneering Handbook questions the entirety of the development process in order to outline holistic political economies of development, discontents, and alternatives.Critically engaging with key theoretical debates and constructs in development studies, the contributors assess the problem of global development and underdevelopment, and the existing problematic explanations and solutions, before outlining alternatives. Chapters explore the nature of development, engaging with, critiquing, and going beyond the dominant theoretical approaches of modernisation, dependency, neoliberalism, human development, sustainable development, and postdevelopment. The chapters further examine more recent powerful forces of change, including sustainability, self-reliance, social and solidarity economies, and ecological alternatives. The Handbook makes a convincing case for an open-ended, ongoing theorisation of development and leaves readers with a key take-away: that not only inequalities but also social stratification can be used to frame the theorising, teaching, practice, praxis, policies, politics, activism, and indeed everything in the political economy of development.Underpinning innovative new research on development, this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of development studies, development economics, political economy, and social policy in emerging countries. Global in scope, policymakers and practitioners working in the Global South and the Global North will also find this Handbook refreshing.Table of ContentsContents: PART I GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT 1 Broken mirrors: towards holistic political economies of development, its discontents and alternatives 2 Franklin Obeng-Odoom 2 Imperialism and postcolonialism 12 Jayanth Tharappel PART II PROBLEMATIC EXPLANATIONS 3 Neoliberalism and development 39 Bill Dunn 4 Property rights 55 Giorgos Meramveliotakis and Dimitris Milonakis 5 Land reforms 75 Tim Anderson 6 Resource curse 91 Cyril Obi 7 Human capital, gender and intersectionality 107 Irene Browne and Allison Sullivan 8 International trade and economic development 123 Amitava Krishna Dutt 9 Cities and development 143 Heba E. Helmy 10 Microcredit: when market-driven social innovations go wrong 168 Milford Bateman 11 Reverse remittances 198 Geraldine Asiwome Ampah 12 The poverty of development theory: China’s Faustian bargain with global capital 215 Walden Bello PART III ALTERNATIVES 13 Sustainability and sustainable communities 233 David Barkin 14 Self-reliance and autonomous development 250 Julia Eder 15 Social and solidarity economy 273 Nathanael Ojong 16 Development and (dis)abilities 289 Hisayo Katsui 17 Black feminism and development 305 Odile Mackett 18 Burkindi: self-centred development 323 Zakaria Soré and Paul Marie Moyenga 19 Bioeconomy: a solution to the challenges of a post-fossil future? 334 Dennis Eversberg, Jana Holz and Matthias Schmelzer 20 Ecological reparations 352 Franklin Obeng-Odoom Index 362

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys the current state of industry in sub-Saharan Africa and examines claims that Africa is de-industrialising. It focuses on the challenge for economic policy to find ways to reverse this trend.The contributors begin by analysing general issues relating to industrialisation in Africa, including the question of Africa's comparative advantage in industry, the role of small-scale enterprises and the scope for infant industry promotion. They then focus on issues such as: evidence of de-industrialisation within Africa comparative industrial performance between African countries and economies outside Africa• the role of regional trade integration lessons to be learnt from industrialisation in East Asia policies of major lending institutions towards industrial loans The authors then consider evidence from country studies including export performance in Nigeria, protection and transport costs in Uganda, public enterprises in Tanzania, enterprise reform in South Africa and the impact of free trade policies in Southern Africa. They find that the diversity of experience in the region and the complexity of the issues caution against accepting simple generalisations on African industrialisation.Industrial Development and Policy in Africa will be required reading for scholars of economic development and industrial economics.Trade Review'. . . the book is a stimulating and important addition to the literature on African industrialisation.' -- Peter Lawrence, Journal of Development StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Africa’s Comparative Advantage 3. Manufacturing Microenterprises as Import Substituting Industries 4. The Concept of ‘Infant Industry’ in a Sub-Saharan African Context 5. Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa from the Experience of East Asia 6. A Review of Recent Manufacturing Sector Development in Sub-Saharan Africa 7. The De-industrialisation Hypothesis, Structural Adjustment Programmes and the Sub-Saharan Dimension 8. De-industrialisation in Sub-Saharan Africa 9. Equipment and Non-equipment Private Investment 10. The European Investment Bank as a Financial Wholesaler 11. How do South African Firms Respond to Trade Policy Reform? 12. Developing African Exports 13. Ownership and Export Performance in Tanzanian Enterprises 14. Transport Costs and Protection for Ugandan Industry 15. Regional Integration and Industrialisation in Southern Africa Index

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