Author : Damien Kingsbury
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403900449
This text provides a critical interdisciplinary introduction to the theory, practice and study of development at the start of the 21st-century.
Author : Gerard McCann
Publisher :
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2015
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781783712816
Author : Vinay Kumar Bhargava
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821367323
Written by 27 World Bank experts, this book draws on the Bank's unique global capabilities and experience to promote an understanding of key global issues that cannot be solved by any one nation alone in an increasingly interconnected world. It describes the forces that are shaping public and private action to address these issues and highlights the Bank's own work in these areas. Covering four broad themes (global economy, global human development, global environment, and global governance), this comprehensive volume provides an introduction to today's most pressing global issues -- from pove.
Author : Helen Kopnina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136270817
Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Highly original, it covers the very broad spectrum of ideas covered under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through to culture, sustainable communities and sustainable consumption. Each chapter covers one key idea, and has been written by an expert in that field. This book makes key issues approachable, with each chapter containing: a definition of the key concept a history of how and why the issue has emerged a discussion of the advantages, drawbacks, main contributions and controversies associated with this issue case studies to demonstrate how it works in reality critical discussion of mainstream models of sustainability and the reason why they don't work introduction of beyond-the-convention alternatives, including circular economy and cradle to cradle approaches This is the ideal book for students and anyone interested in understanding the key issues within sustainability and how they interact.
Author : Damien Kingsbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134143680
This book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development. Political Development returns the key issues of human rights and democratization to the centre of the development debate and offers the reader an alternative to the conventional approach to, and definition of, the idea of ‘development’. Discussing political development in its broadest context, it includes chapters on democracy, institution-building, the state, state failure, nation, human rights and political violence. Damien Kingsbury, a leading expert on development and Southeast Asia, argues that ‘good governance’, in its common usage, is too narrowly defined and that good governance is not just about ensuring the integrity of a state’s financial arrangements, but that it goes to the core social and political issues of transparency and accountability, implying a range of social structures defined as ‘institutions’. Providing new insights into political development, this comprehensive text can be used on advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in international development, comparative politics, political theory and international relations.
Author : Damien Kingsbury
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403900449
This text provides a critical interdisciplinary introduction to the theory, practice and study of development at the start of the 21st-century.
Author : Joshua Yindenaba Abor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429835256
Contemporary Issues in Development Finance provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of theoretical and policy issues in development finance from both the domestic and the external finance perspectives and emphasizes addressing the gaps in financial markets. The chapters cover topical issues such as microfinance, private sector financing, aid, FDI, remittances, sovereign wealth, trade finance, and the sectoral financing of agricultural and infrastructural projects. Readers will acquire both breadth and depth of knowledge in critical and contemporary issues in development finance from a philosophical and yet pragmatic development impact approach. The text ensures this by carefully integrating the relevant theoretical underpinnings, empirical assessments, and practical policy issues into its analysis. The work is designed to be fully accessible to practitioners with only a limited theoretical economic background, allowing them to deeply engage with the book as useful reference material. Readers may find more advanced information and technical details provided in clear, concise boxes throughout the text. Finally, each chapter is fully supported by a set of review questions and by cases and examples from developing countries, particularly those in Africa. This book is a valuable resource for both development finance researchers and students taking courses in development finance, development economics, international finance, financial development policy, and economic policy management. Practitioners will find the development impact, policy, and conceptual analysis dimensions insightful analysing and designing intervention strategies.
Author : Damien Kingsbury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 135158314X
Politics in Developing Countries provides a clear and reader-friendly introduction to the key factors and themes that shape political processes in developing countries. Achieving development outcomes such as reducing poverty and inequality is only possible through efficient governance, well-planned policies and careful allocation of resources, but often politics in developing countries has been identified with mismanagement, corruption, conflict and repression of dissent. This book assesses the politics of developing countries in the period since decolonisation, focusing on the ways in which states have or have not worked to the advancement of their citizens’ interests. Key topics include: Colonialism and its legacy Ethnicity and nation building Governance, corruption and the role of the state Poverty and the political economy of development Aid and outside influence. Drawing on a range of case studies from around the world, Politics in Developing Countries looks at the consistencies and variations between developing countries, examining why some have forestalled political change by liberalising their economies, and others have actively stifled calls for change. Wide-ranging and engagingly written, this introductory textbook is perfect for students of politics and international development, as well as for those with a general interest in the challenges faced by countries in the Global South.
Author : Martin F. Price
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9280811029
Mountain areas cover almost one quarter of the earth's land surface, with a quarter of the global population living on them or very close by, and they are sources of water, food, timber, minerals and other natural resources. They provide many opportunities for recreation, as well as being centres of biological and cultural diversity and religious significance. Unfortunately, mountain environments and populations are also particularly threatened by climate change and political conflicts, and their inhabitants include many of the poorest and most vulnerable in the world. This publication includes a number of papers which explore a range of sustainable development challenges for mountain regions.
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9781422324738
