Development Studies

  1. Add to Wish List Mapping a New World Order

    Mapping a New World Order

    Edited by Vladimir Popov, Piotr Dutkiewicz
    This book identifies possible factors responsible for the recent rise of many developing countries. It examines how robust these trends actually are and speculatively predicts the implications and consequences that may result from a cont...
    Hardback (2017)

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  2. Add to Wish List Contextualizing Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies and Developing Countries

    Contextualizing Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies and Developing Countries

    Edited by Marcela Ramírez Pasillas, Ethel Brundin, Magdalena Markowska
    Entrepreneurship in emerging countries presents us with a unique set of working attitudes, modes of thinking, social practices and processes. This book explores these characteristics, focusing on the conceptualization of entrepreneurship...
    Hardback (2017)

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  3. Add to Wish List Corruption, Natural Resources and Development

    Corruption, Natural Resources and Development

    Edited by Aled Williams, Philippe Le Billon
    This book provides a fresh and extensive discussion of corruption issues in natural resources sectors. Reflecting on recent debates in corruption research and revisiting resource curse challenges in light of political ecology approaches,...
    Hardback (2017)

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  4. Add to Wish List Governance in Developing Asia

    Governance in Developing Asia

    Edited by Anil B. Deolalikar, Shikha Jha, Pilipinas F. Quising
    Governance in Developing Asia is one of the first books of its kind to provide an overview of the role that better governance and citizen empowerment can play in improving public service delivery in developing Asia. The World Development...
    Paperback (2016)

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    Hardback (June 2015)

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  5. Add to Wish List Corruption, Grabbing and Development

    Corruption, Grabbing and Development

    Edited by Tina Søreide, Aled Williams
    All societies develop their own norms about what is fair behaviour and what is not. Violations of these norms, including acts of corruption, can collectively be described as forms of ‘grabbing’. This unique volume addresses how grabbing ...
    Paperback (2015)

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    Hardback (February 2014)

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  6. Add to Wish List Gender, Development and Disasters

    Gender, Development and Disasters

    Sarah Bradshaw
    Sarah Bradshaw critically examines key notions, such as gender, vulnerability, risk, and humanitarianism, underpinning development and disaster discourse. Case studies are used to demonstrate how disasters are experienced individually an...
    Paperback (2015)

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    Hardback (July 2013)

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  7. Add to Wish List Social Policy in a Developing World

    Social Policy in a Developing World

    Edited by Rebecca Surender, Robert Walker
    This volume provides a critical analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing social protection systems in the global south, and examines current strategies for addressing poverty and welfare needs in the region. In particular, the...
    Paperback (2014)

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    Hardback (June 2013)

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  8. Add to Wish List Regulatory Worlds

    Regulatory Worlds

    Mark Findlay, Lim Si Wei
    This ambitious book takes up the grand challenge to design regulatory thinking for a global future beyond wealth and growth, and towards social sustainability. Assuming a ‘South World’ perspective on market regulation and social sustaina...
    Hardback (December 2014)

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  9. Add to Wish List Environmental Entrepreneurship

    Environmental Entrepreneurship

    Laura E. Huggins
    In this innovative book, Laura E. Huggins finds path breaking entrepreneurial solutions to difficult environmental challenges in some of the world’s poorest areas. The approaches entrepreneurs are taking to these challenges involve esta...
    Paperback (2014)

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    Hardback (November 2013)

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  10. Add to Wish List Local Societies and Rural Development

    Local Societies and Rural Development

    Edited by Shinichi Shigetomi, Ikuko Okamoto
    The importance of community-based and participatory approaches to rural development in developing countries has long been emphasized. Rural people, who are economically and politically weak as individuals, can only participate in develop...
    Hardback (September 2014)

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  11. Add to Wish List Innovation and Inequality

    Innovation and Inequality

    Edited by Susan Cozzens, Dhanaraj Thakur
    Inequality is one of the main features of globalization. Do emerging technologies, as they spread around the world, contribute to more inequality or less? This unique interdisciplinary text examines the relationships between emerging tec...
    Hardback (July 2014)

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  12. Add to Wish List The Economic and Political Aftermath of the Arab Spring

    The Economic and Political Aftermath of the Arab Spring

    Edited by Carlo Altomonte, Massimiliano Ferrara
    The economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have always been characterized by economic volatility and social disparities. The recent ‘Arab Spring’ wave of protests has increased political uncertainty and instability i...
    Hardback (2014)

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