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Cambridge University Press State Capture and RentSeeking in Benin
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Cambridge University Press Is the Bangladesh Paradox Sustainable
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Cambridge University Press State and Business in Tanzanias Development
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Cambridge University Press The Idea of Development in Africa
Book SynopsisThe Idea of Development in Africa challenges prevailing international development discourses about the continent, by tracing the history of ideas, practices, and ''problems'' of development used in Africa. In doing so, it offers an innovative approach to examining the history and culture of development through the lens of the development episteme, which has been foundational to the ''idea of Africa'' in western discourses since the early 1800s. The study weaves together an historical narrative of how the idea of development emerged with an account of the policies and practices of development in colonial and postcolonial Africa. The book highlights four enduring themes in African development, including their present-day ramifications: domesticity, education, health, and industrialization. Offering a balance between historical overview and analysis of past and present case studies, Elisabeth McMahon and Corrie Decker demonstrate that Africans have always co-opted, challenged, and reformeTrade Review'A smart, sweeping history that explores how colonial ideas about Africa and Africans - including moral imperatives, the inventions of 'tribes,' and scientific racism - shaped development paradigms and projects across the continent. The Idea of Development in Africa is a 'must-teach' book for courses on Africa and in development studies.' Dorothy Hodgson, Brandeis University'This refreshing and innovative study packs a double punch. First, it offers a bracing critique of the development industry, locating its roots deep within the colonial mind-set. Then it follows through with a brighter vision of Africa, one that emerges from the continent's own artists, thinkers, and leaders. A feast to which all are invited.' Gregory Mann, Columbia University'At last, an accessible book that explains the history of development as an idea - critical background for any students or practitioners interested in engaging with Africa's development today. The authors lay out the ways developmental thinking emerged globally alongside empire and colonialism, and how this way of thinking continues to impact the practice of development today. Smart and sophisticated, with helpful resources for additional reading and sidebars that delve more deeply into specific topics.' Jamie Monson, Michigan State University'Decker and McMahon's co-authored volume is the latest and most comprehensive compilation of the development concept or episteme in African history made accessible to students and practitioners alike.' Leslie Anne Hadfield, International Journal of African Historical Studies'… the book is thought provoking as it discusses known material in a new light … Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.' J. E. Weaver, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Origins of the Development Episteme: 1. From Progress to Development; 2. Knowledge and the Development Episteme; 3. Eugenics and Racism in the Development Episteme; 4. Decolonizing the Idea of Development; Part II. Implementation of the Development Episteme: 5. The Salvation of Science; 6. Challenges to Development; 7. From Modernization to Structural Adjustment; 8. The New Missionaries; Part III. Development 'Problems': 9. Reshaping Huts and Homes; 10. Lessons in Separate Development; 11. Capitalizing on Dis-Ease; 12. Manufacturing Modernization; 13. African Critiques of the Development Episteme.
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Cambridge University Press SocioEconomic Development An Introduction
Book SynopsisWhy are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? How are wealth and poverty related to changes in health, life expectancy, education, population growth and politics? This non-technical introduction to development studies explores the dynamics of socio-economic development and stagnation in developing countries. Thoroughly updated and revised, this second edition includes new material on the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, the emergence of the BRICS economies, the role of institutions in development and the accelerated growth of economies in Africa and Asia. Taking a comparative approach, Szirmai places contemporary debates within their broader contexts and combines insights and theories from economics, economic history, political science, anthropology and sociology. Each chapter includes comparative statistics and time series for thirty-one developing countries. Assuming no prior knowledge of economics, this book is well-suited for students in interdisciplinary development stTrade Review'Professor Szirmai's fully revised edition of Socio-Economic Development is a tour de force. Grounded in economic history, it elegantly combines and integrates the modern development economics literature, careful empirical analysis, and illuminating country studies. Any serious student of long-run economic development, from the first-timer to those with decades of immersion in the subject, will want to have a copy of this encyclopedic yet accessible volume.' Hal Hill, H. W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, Australian National University'This is a scholarly and comprehensive treatment of development economics that is accessible to a wide range of social science and development studies students. Its treatment of health issues, education policy, and rural development, and its comprehensive data tables, are unsurpassed in the development economics field.' Kenneth A. Reinert, George Mason University, Virginia'The second edition of Adam Szirmai's book extends the author's ambitious effort to provide a nontechnical but comprehensive exposition of contemporary development thought and experience. The book deftly weaves together economic history, the history of thought, statistical data, country experiences, and contemporary economic analysis to provide a guide to the most important development questions … Through this work, the author has performed a signal service to all serious students of development, whether veteran or just starting.' Emmanuel S. de Dios, Asian Pacific Economic LiteratureReview of previous edition: This textbook … succeeds in achieving this aim in a comprehensive and masterly fashion. … The book is written in a lucid non-technical style and is attractively laid out. Szirmai's text is the best that I have read on this subject and should be extensively used as a core text on development courses in all universities.' The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Developing countries and the concept of development; 2. Development of the international economic order, 1450–2015; 3. Growth and stagnation: theories and experiences; 4. Technology and development; 5. Population and development; 6. Health, healthcare and development; 7. Education and development; 8. Economic development, structural change and industrialisation; 9. Industrial development; 10. Agricultural development and rural development; 11. State formation and political aspects of development; 12. Cultural and institutional dimensions of development; 13. The international economic and political order since 1945; 14. Foreign aid and development; References; Author index; Subject index.
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Cambridge University Press Business Model Innovation
Book SynopsisThis Element approaches the topic of business model innovation from the perspective of the established firm and examines the unique strategic and organizational issues that big, established companies face when a new business model enters their markets.Table of Contents1. What is business model innovation?; 2. Discovering new business models; 3. Responding to BMI; 4. Competing with two business models; 5. The uniqueness of BMI; References.
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Penguin Publishing Group The White Mans Burden
Book SynopsisFrom one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world.Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World. —BusinessWeekIn his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western organizations to mitigate global poverty, and he was promptly fired by his then-employer, the World Bank. The White Man’s Burden is his widely anticipated counterpunch—a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West’s economic policies for the world’s poor. Sometimes angry, sometimes irreverent, but always clear-eyed and rigorous, Easterly argues that we in the West need to face our own history of ineptitude and draw the proper conclusions, especially at a time when the question of our ability to transplant Western institutions has become one of the most pressing issues we face.
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The University of Chicago Press Rural Development in China Paper Prospect and
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted field work in Kaixian'gong, a village in Jiangsu province in east China. This village became the subject of his now classic study Peasant Life in China, in which he argued that, because of China's huge population and the scarcity of cultivable land, household industries such as production of raw silk were vital to the peasants' economic survival. His conclusions, long rejected by China's policymakers, have recently been embraced by the government under the political leadership of Deng Xiaopeng. Returning to Kaixian'gong in 1957 and again in the 1980s, Fei examined the changes that had occurred since his initial research. Three essays that resulted from these follow-up studies are included in this collection, providing a rare summary and ana
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WW Norton & Co The Away Game The Epic Search for Soccers Next
Book SynopsisThe gripping story of a group of boys discovered in what may be the largest talent search in sports history.Trade Review"Engrossing. . . . A masterful account of the drama and science of scouting [and] a lively evocation of football mania in Africa." -- The Economist"Masterfully weaves together the stories of boys from a renowned soccer academy in Doha in an illuminating narrative." -- Sports Illustrated"Follows a group of teenagers plucked from the dirt fields of Africa and swept up in the international soccer machine for a chance at stardom." -- Men's Journal"A sobering look at the realities of the pursuit of big-time sporting opportunities." -- Kirkus (starred review)"[The Away Game] follows the fortunes of three young African players who participated in the Qatari [Football Dreams] program and for whom soccer represented a ticket out of poverty. . . . An excellent introduction to this shady world.”" -- Nicolas van de Walle - Foreign Affairs"Every fan of international soccer must read The Away Game. It shows how soccer stars are made, and it captures the desperation and the pain behind African footballers’ search for fame and money in the Middle East and Europe." -- Helon Habila, author of Oil on Water and The Chibok Girls"What a fantastic story: a soccer-themed mix of Hoop Dreams and The Sports Gene, told with surpassing empathy for the boys of Senegal, Ghana, and other African countries involved. Sebastian Abbot knows his soccer, but The Away Game is a tale with universal appeal to anyone who cares about the human condition." -- Grant Wahl, author of The Beckham Experiment"An exhilarating, at times heartbreaking, and ultimately unforgettable journey that lays bare the true human stakes of the world’s most popular game." -- Warren St. John, author of Outcasts United
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WW Norton & Co The Away Game The Epic Search for Soccers Next
Book Synopsis“An exhilarating, at times heartbreaking, and ultimately unforgettable journey that lays bare the true human stakes of the world’s most popular game.”—Warren St. John, best-selling author of Outcasts UnitedTrade Review"Masterfully weaves together the stories of boys from a renowned soccer academy in Doha in an illuminating narrative." -- Sports Illustrated"What a fantastic story: a soccer-themed mix of Hoop Dreams and The Sports Gene.… A tale with universal appeal to anyone who cares about the human condition." -- Grant Wahl, author of The Beckham Experiment"Every fan of international soccer must read The Away Game." -- Helon Habila, author of Oil on Water and The Chibok Girls"An excellent introduction to this shady world." -- Nicolas van de Walle - Foreign Affairs
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Cities Back from the Edge New Life for Downtown
Book SynopsisThe paperback edition of the critically-acclaimed, pioneering book on successful urban recovery. Two urban experts draw on their firsthand observations of downtown change across the country to identify a flexible, effective approach to urban rejuvenation.Trade ReviewIn Cities Back from the Edge, Gratz and Mintz offer a love song forthe city...their volume, attractively packaged and richlyillustrated, is really a cookbook for downtown revitalization. Itturns out the most valuable contribution to urban understanding ofthe year isn't only a book, it's also a bumper sticker: Thinkglobally, act locally."--The Wall Street Journal Cities Back From the Edge was featured again in The New York Times.Frank Rich writes, "In their new book persuasively arguing for lessgrandiose, more indigenous urban renewal, Roberta Brandes Gratz andNorman Mintz write that a 'collection of visitor attractions doesnot add up to a city' whether those attractions are culturalcenters, convention centers, aquariums, stadiums or enclosedmalls."--The New York Times "...provides a fascinating insight into the US Urban Designscenario..." (Urban Design, Autumn 2001)Table of ContentsWHERE ARE WE? Mansfield, Ohio--Getting Off the Big Project Merry-Go-Round. The Mess We Have Made. Project Planning or Urban Husbandry--The Choice. TRANSPORTATION AND PLACE. Death and Rebirth of the Public Realm. Rebuilding Place, Valuing Transit. Undoing Sprawl. BIG, LITTLE, AND PREDATOR. Free Competition or No Competition? You Don't Have to Be Wal-Mart to Be Wal-Mart. To Market, To Market. DOWNTOWN ESSENTIALS. Public Buildings, Public Policies. Back to Basics. Investing in People. IT'S HAPPENING. The SoHo Syndrome. Conclusion. Index.
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The University of Michigan Press A County of Culture
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Pluto Press The Accidental Capitalist
Book SynopsisReveals the human stories behind China's extraordinary growthTrade Review'This remarkable book paints intimate portraits of some of the faceless millions of migrant workers who have made China's economic miracle possible' -- Ivan Watson, CNN Foreign Correspondent'A fascinating, moving and highly readable book' -- Jeff Crisp, Head, Policy Development and Evaluation Service, UNHCR'Like Ian Johnson's Wild Grass or Leslie Chang's Factory Girls, The Accidental Capitalist takes us to the epicenter of China's world-changing transition through a series of portraits of the men and women who make that change possible' -- Professor James Millward, History, Georgetown University'A modern Alexis de Tocqueville' -- Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsHistory Timeline Maps Introduction: The Greatest Migration BOOK I: Tenants of Li Family, The Beautiful Rose Garden, The Li Family Village, The Portrait of Mao, Grandpa, The Communists Buried their Soldiers, The Great Famine, The Decorator’s Fortune, The Scent of Fresh Grass BOOK II: Migrant Girls’ Long March, Toy Factory Girls, I Want to See the World, The Great Flood, Bean Curds, I Will Be My Own Boss, Red Lanterns on the Mountain, A White Color Worker BOOK III: The Accidental Capitalist, Zhao Gang: The Declining Export-Processing Industries, Child Labor, Ancestor’s Tomb, Lujiang Leaving for Shenzhen, Arise, You Prisoners of Starvation BOOK IV: A Man for All Seasons, Yue Haitao: Saving the World in the New China, Leaving Qingdao, Running to Die, Taking Side, Own a Piece of America, The Bastille Day Conclusions Index
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John Wiley & Sons Sovereign Acts Performing Race Space and
Book SynopsisSovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone over the last century. By demonstrating the place of performance in the legal landscape of U.S. Empire, Zien transforms our understanding of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean. Trade Review"By pairing archival research with the analysis of a fascinating array of theatrical and political performances, built environment, and civic recreation, Zien innovatively posits the construction of citizenship and belonging in Panama’s Canal Zone throughout the 20th century as an intricate, performative process. A must-read for anyone interested in sites of contested sovereignty." -- Camilla Stevens * author of Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama *"Examines the 'performance' of claims to the Canal Zone in popular entertainments, civic pageantry, and other realms reflecting the competing interests of Panamanians, West Indian laborers, and white U.S. citizens; covers 1903 to 1999." * Chronicle *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Note on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction: Setting the Scene of Sovereignty 1 Sovereignty’s Mise-en-scène: The Necessary Aesthetics of New Empire 2 Entertaining Sovereignty: The Politics of Recreation in the Panama Canal Zone 3 Beyond Sovereignty: Black Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Diplomacy in Concert 4 National Theatre and Popular Sovereignty: Staging el pueblo panameño 5 Staging Sovereignty and Memory in the Panama Canal Handover Coda: After Sovereignty Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons Sovereign Acts Performing Race Space and
Book SynopsisSovereign Acts explores how artists, activists, and audiences performed and interpreted sovereignty struggles in the Panama Canal Zone over the last century. By demonstrating the place of performance in the legal landscape of U.S. Empire, Zien transforms our understanding of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean. Trade Review"By pairing archival research with the analysis of a fascinating array of theatrical and political performances, built environment, and civic recreation, Zien innovatively posits the construction of citizenship and belonging in Panama’s Canal Zone throughout the 20th century as an intricate, performative process. A must-read for anyone interested in sites of contested sovereignty." -- Camilla Stevens * author of Family and Identity in Contemporary Cuban and Puerto Rican Drama *"Examines the 'performance' of claims to the Canal Zone in popular entertainments, civic pageantry, and other realms reflecting the competing interests of Panamanians, West Indian laborers, and white U.S. citizens; covers 1903 to 1999." * Chronicle *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables Note on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction: Setting the Scene of Sovereignty 1 Sovereignty’s Mise-en-scène: The Necessary Aesthetics of New Empire 2 Entertaining Sovereignty: The Politics of Recreation in the Panama Canal Zone 3 Beyond Sovereignty: Black Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Diplomacy in Concert 4 National Theatre and Popular Sovereignty: Staging el pueblo panameño 5 Staging Sovereignty and Memory in the Panama Canal Handover Coda: After Sovereignty Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
World Bank Publications World Development Report 2006
Book SynopsisThe World Development Report (WDR) is the World Bank's annual flagship publication. Each year the WDR seeks to expand the understanding of poverty and its causes, and sets out actions the development community can take to fight poverty in all its dimensions.Table of ContentsOverview: Introduction and Summary; PART 1: HOW UNEQUAL IS THE WORLD?; 1. Inequalities within Countires: People and Groups; 2. Global Inequalities: Countries and People; PART II: DOES INEQUALITY MATTER?; 3. Equity, Well-Being, and Development; 4. Inequalities and Investment; 5. Inequalities, Power, and Conflict; PART III: INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES FOR GREATER EQUITY AND LOWER POVERTY; 6. Equity and Economy-wide Processes and Policies; 7. Towards Equity in Assets, Incomes, and Agency; 8. Institutions and Policies for Global Inequality
£26.91
Johns Hopkins University Press So Much Aid So Little Development
Book SynopsisIn the process, Altaf introduces into the development conversation the human dimension that most frameworks have neglected to their detriment.Trade Review"This is a remarkable book. The author draws on her long experience in working on development programs in Pakistan to illuminate some of the major problems in the symbiotic relationships between providers of development assistance and the governments that receive the assistance." (John W. Sewell, former president of the Overseas Development Council)"Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why This Story Needs to Be Told1. Meeting Lucymemsahib and Starting Our Project2. The Organization of Our Project3. The Pakistan Nursing Council: A Dead End4. The Allama Iqbal Open University's Bureau of University Extensions and Special Programs5. The Women's Division: A Brief Encounter of the Worst Kind6. The Population Welfare Division: To Be or Not to Be...7. Regional Training Institutes and Other Such Things8. A Day in the Life of a Provincial Health Department9. The UNICEF and UNDP Workshop and the SindhSAP Proposal10. The Punjab Proposal and the Firing of the Learned Dr.Sahiba: . . . And That's the Way It Is . . .11. The Immunization Program in the North-West Frontier Province12. Bank's World: Witches' Oil and Lizards' Tails13. Packed, Sealed, and Delivered: Our Project Is Finished—in More Ways Than OneEpilogue: The Beat Goes On...Inde
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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Les systèmes de mise en œuvre de la protection sociale
Book SynopsisL'objectif principal de ce manuel de reference est de reunir les connaissances operationnelles et l'experience internationale des pays du monde entier en termes de mise en ?uvre des programmes de protection sociale.
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John Wiley & Sons Fundamentos de los sistemas de implementaci243n de Libro de referencia
Book SynopsisEl objetivo principal del Libro es sintetizar el conocimiento practico y la experiencia internacional sobre la implementacion de programas de proteccion social, con enfasis en programas de beneficios y servicios sociales y laborales.
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University of Minnesota Press The Nature of the Path: Reading a West African
Book SynopsisThe Nature of the Path reveals how a single road has shaped the collective identity of a community that has existed on the margins of larger societies for centuries. Marcus Filippello shows how a road running through the Lama Valley in Southeastern Benin has become a mnemonic device that has allowed residents to counter prevailing histories. Built by the French colonial government, and following a traditional pathway, the road serves as a site where the Ọhọri people narrate their changing relationship to the environment and assert their independence in the political milieus of colonial and postcolonial Africa. Filippello first visited the Yorùbá-speaking Ọhọri community in Benin knowing only the history in archival records. Over several years, he interviewed more than 100 people with family roots in the valley and discovered that their personal identities were closely tied to the community, which in turn was inextricably linked to the history of the road that snakes through the region’s seasonal wetlands. The road—contested, welcomed, and obstructed over many years—passes through fertile farmlands and sacred forests, both rich in meaning for residents.Filippello’s research seeks to counter prevailing notions of Africa as an “exotic” and pristine, yet contrarily war-torn, disease-ridden, environmentally challenged, and impoverished continent. His informants’ vivid construction of history through the prism of the road, coupled with his own archival research, offers new insights into Africans’ complex understandings of autonomy, identity, and engagement in the slow process we call modernization. Trade Review"Offering a new type of postcolonial history that is informed by how people engage with the natural and material worlds, Marcus Filippello weaves together local and colonial narratives to make a significant contribution to our understanding of this little-studied region over several centuries of its history."—Celia Nyamweru, St. Lawrence University and Pwani University"A thoughtful and provocative book that explores the interconnected processes of cultural, social, political, and economic change in West Africa."—Journal of African History"Filippello is an engaging writer and incorporates his own perceptions and experiences throughout the short book, making it quite lively. "—PoLAR"A must-read for anyone interested in Yoruba political history."—African Studies Review"An important contribution to African histories of mobility and transport."—The Journal of Transport History Table of ContentsContentsNotes on Orthography, Diacritics, and LanguageIntroduction: Crossing the Black Earth1. The Roads into Igbó Ilú: The Making of an Ọhọri Identity2. Roads to Subversion: Displaying Independence and Displacing Authority in the Early Colonial Era3. Going to the Greens Seller: Ọhọri Communal Expansion in the 1920s and 1930s4. “It Has Become a Joy to Go to Tollou”: Reinterpreting the Tools of French Colonial Développement5. Cementing Identities: Negotiating Independence in a Changing LandscapeConclusion: Breathing with the RoadAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Massachusetts Press Despite Good Intentions: Why Development
Book SynopsisSince the 1960s, Thomas W. Dichter has worked in the field of international development, managing and evaluating projects for nongovernmental organizations, directing a Peace Corps country programme, and serving as a consultant for such agencies as USAID, UNDP, and the World Bank. On the basis of this experience, he has become an outspoken critic of what he terms the ""international poverty alleviation society"". He believes that efforts to reduce world poverty have been well-intentioned but largely ineffective. On the whole the development industry has failed to serve the needs of the people it has sought to help. To make his case Dichter reviews the major trends in development assistance from the 1960s through to the 1990s, illustrating his analysis with 18 short stories based on his own experiences in the field. The analytic chapters are therefore grounded in the daily life of development workers as described in the stories. Dichter shows how the development organizations have often become caught up in their own self-perpetuation and in public relations efforts designed to create an illusion of effectiveness. Tracing the evolution of the role of money (as opposed to ideas) in development assistance, he suggests how financial imperatives have reinforced the tendency to sponsor time-bound projects, creating a dependency among aid recipients. He also examines the rise of careerism and increased bureaucratization in the industry, arguing that assistance efforts have become disconnected from important lessons learned on the ground. Ultimately, Dichter calls for a more light-handed and artful approach to development assistance, with fewer agencies and experts involved. His stance is pragmatic, rather than ideological or political. What matters, he says, is what works, and he maintains that the current practices of the development industry are simply not effective.Trade ReviewA literate, entertaining, and soulsearching critique of the international aid business, by an insider who will make other insiders think hard about what they are doing and where they are going. - Ian Smillie, author of Patronage or Partnership: Local Capacity Building In Humanitarian Crises; ""I can think of no study as comprehensive and grounded in such wide experience and knowledge as Dichter's.... The presentation is amazingly effective, especially the alternation of narrative accounts of hypothetical (but very believable) examples of technical assistance projects with factual discussions of aspects of developmental assistance....A highly readable and literate book."" - Barbara B. Burn, author of Expanding the International Dimension of Higher Education
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Kumarian Press How the Aid Industry Works: An Introduction to
Book SynopsisInternational development is big business. Official global aid flows from North to South are over $100 billion annually. China and India, former aid recipients, are rapidly entering the field as aid providers themselves, and international charity is being redefined with the resources of private donors like the Gates Foundation, for example, outstripping the annual budget of long-time donors like the UK, Canada or the World Health Organization. Lacking in the literature on international development is an introductory text that provides an overview of the practices of the 'business' of development. ""How the Aid Industry Works"" provides a basic description of what aid practices are and how they evolved. The arguments of both proponents and opponents of aid are presented and analyzed, along with real-life examples of projects and programs in context. Ideal for undergraduate and graduate students encountering the subject of development for the first time, the book also serves as an overview for development practitioners who want a handy reference covering the universe they inhabit.
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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in
Book SynopsisThis lucidly written book, thoroughly updated, provides both an assessment of the current state of development theory and an extensive survey of the impact of evolving policies and practices throughout the developing world. Rapley critically traces the evolution of development theory from its strong statist orientation in the early postwar period, through the neoclassical phase, to the present emerging consensus on people-centered development. New to the third edition is a chapter on "postdevelopment" thought, as well as increased attention to the challenges posed by weak states and by critical environmental issues. Using a wide range of examples, Rapley shows where and how various approaches to development have worked or failed continuing to confront the question of why development remains so far out of reach for so many poor countries.Trade ReviewPraise for the previous editions:"Emphasizing a close link between development theory and the actual practice of economic policymaking, Rapley grounds the discussion in a way that will be much appreciated by both students and their instructors...[He] writes with a rare clarity." —Bruce E. Moon, American Political Science Review"Concise, yet all encompassing and meticulously referenced...Rapley's study is determined to unravel the intricacies of development practice across the third world and map out its intellectual roots. The project certainly succeeds in these goals." —Firooza Pavri, Progress in Development StudiesTable of Contents The Progress of Development. Development Theory in the Postwar Period. State-Led Development in Practice. The Neoclassical Answer to Failure. Neoclassical Reform in Practice. Development Theory in the Wake of Structural Adjustment. The End of the Developmental State. The End of Development, or A New Beginning? Conclusion.
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PublicAffairs,U.S. Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation
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University of Arkansas Press Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda: Architectural
Book SynopsisRwanda, less than a generation removed from the 1994 Genocide, is experiencing a period of economic ascent and population growth. Its capital city, Kigali, is expected to triple in size within a generation, and positioned to become a premiere hub of commerce in central and eastern Africa.Amidst this optimism, however, is limited land and material resources. Food security is in tension with environmental concerns, and government aspirations are often in friction with daily, individual struggles for subsistence.Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda explores the pressing challenges and opportunities to be found in planning, designing, and constructing a healthy, equitable, and sustainable city. Asking “what is an authentic-yet-modern, prosperous-yet-feasible African city, Rwandan city?” Smith, Berlanda, and colleagues conducted research on Rwandan activities of daily living and how these routines are connected to space-making practices and the Kinyarwanda terms that describe them.Through a culturally informed view of urban and rural lifestyles and spaces, Interpreting Kigali, Rwanda presents principles and proposals for neighborhood development in the challenging context of Kigali’s informal settlements. With one billion people living in informal settlements worldwide, a number expected to double by 2030, the lessons learned in Rwanda provide a complex, fascinating, and urgent study for scholars and practitioners across disciplines and around the world.
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Apollo Publishers The Bonds We Share: Images of Humanity, 40 Years
Book SynopsisIn extraordinary, life-affirming photos taken around the world—from developing villages to urban centers—over the last 40 years, a photographer makes the bold case that what unites us is more powerful than the borders that divide us. A portion of the proceeds for The Bonds We Share will benefit Doctors Without Borders. Hailed as “photography's new conscience,” photographer and psychiatrist Dr. Glenn Losack has spent a lifetime traveling the world, determined to extend healing, hope, and compassion. With a camera in hand, he goes places that tourists rarely visit, including slums, alleys, and dark streets. He's seen struggle, but he's also seen our shared humanity: families playing together, laborers working, the devout praying to their gods. Dr. Losack has found resilience, joy, passion, and celebration in communities the world over, even in places plagued with corrupt government, poor infrastructure, and disease. The 240 captivating photos in The Bonds We Share, taken in India, the Dominican Republic, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Morocco, Peru, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Egypt, the United States, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, serve as a remarkable retrospective of Dr. Losack's work and reveal an essential truth: we may come from very different cultures, far-ranging geographic corners, belief systems, and economic circumstances, but we all share the same desire to work hard, raise families, and lead fulfilling lives. In this spectacular volume, Dr. Losack interrogates timely notions of difference and portrays the commonality of people from different cultures around the globe.Trade Review“We may be separated by oceans, languages, and cultures, but we are all connected. Dr. Glenn Losack’s beautiful pictorial The Bonds We Share reminds us of our universal connection to one another through a series of stunning, personal, and often emotional images. Dr. Losack reminds us that we have so much more that joins us rather than separates us. In these faces from distant lands we can see much of ourselves. This is a joyful, celebratory collection.” —Jim Moret, author of The Last Day of My Life and chief correspondent of Inside Edition“Dr. Losack’s unforgettable photography in The Bonds We Share is exquisite and full of amazing, touching images which drive home the unquestionably powerful theme that people worldwide share a commonality in their daily lives. We all want a peaceful planet and a better, more meaningful future for our children. You will love this beautiful book and its profound, universal message.” —Rita Cosby, Emmy-winning journalist and best-selling author of Quiet Hero: Secret’s from My Father’s Past“I feel like I've just taken a trip around the world through Glenn's photographs. I am struck by the way he captures a world of different people in different places, illustrating that we are truly all the same. He shows us the amazing colors of life.” —May Pang, artist, former music executive, and author of Loving John and Instamatic Karma: Photos of John Lennon“Dr. Losack’s powerful photographs are not only stunning and poignant, but they also manage to reach deep into the soul and collective unconscious of his audience. He reminds us why we are here: to love, learn, and discover the beauty in one another. These are the bonds we all share and that show that we are all connected in this world.” —Dr. Jeff Gardere, psychologist, author, and contributor to Fox, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN“Glenn Losack has an unprecedented ability to peer into pain and find soul and beauty. His photography profoundly gives a voice to those who have no microphone.” —Alice Feiring, James Beard award-winning wine and travel writer and author of Naked Wine, For the Love of Wine, and Natural Wine for the People“A powerful and necessary message for our times, Dr. Losack’s work is massive, exquisite, and covers so many of life’s meaningful and evocative themes. He captures foreign cultures with an emotive awareness, and quite successfully involves his audience in this endeavor. Every photograph is depicted with care and grace.” —Dr. Robi Ludwig, author, psychotherapist, and TV personality“We have all heard the phrase, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words,’ and the photographs in The Bonds We Share are absolutely breathtaking. Dr. Losack has certainly captured what makes us all commonly bonded in this powerful and optimistic book and shows that no matter who we are or where we’re from, we are more similar than different.” —Joan Lunden, award-winning journalist, best-selling author, former cohost of ABC’s Good Morning America, and host of PBS’s Second Opinion with Joan Lunden“A timely pictorial, The Bonds We Share shines a bright light on our innate similarities.” —Preferred Health magazine“This is most definitely the work of a master of the stunning snapshot.” —F-Stop Magazine“Losack finds the true colors of every population he visits, and transforms their daily struggles into a visual message of hope and compassion. An inspiring and thought-provoking addition to your photo library.” —Amex EssentialsTable of ContentsPreface 1: Devotion 2: Inheritance 3: Journey 4: Pastime 5: Connection 6: Resilience 7: Community
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NUS Press From the Blue Windows: Recollections of Life in
Book SynopsisTan Kok Yang grew up in a small public housing estate in Queenstown during the 1960s and early 1970s. Queenstown is one of the earliest public housing estates in Singapore and over the years, has gone through immense changes. It was home to a group of low-rise government rental flats where the windows were fitted with unique blue louvers, hence the title of the book. This account of the games, festivities, customs and lifestyle of the area as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive boy will arouse memories in many older Singaporeans.While the stories touch on the effects of race riots and student unrest during the 1960s, their purpose is neither political nor academic. Rather they are a reminder of a simple but fulfilling way of life that has all but vanished from modern Singapore.
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