During the last two decades, bilateral and multilateral donors' policy advice to developing countries has been centred on greater market openness and better integration into the global economy - a process that characterises globalization. This advice is of growing concern to many analysts as it subscribes to the problematic notion that as long as inequality is not increasing, economic progress through growth will reduce poverty. This book provides a systematic analysis of the impact of globalization on poverty, paying particular attention to empirical evidence to try to establish...
During the last two decades, bilateral and multilateral donors' policy advice to developing countries has been centred on greater market openness and ...
2013 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery -- Winner
When missing persons investigator Dan Sharp attends a wedding, he finds himself investigating more than one murder.
Dan Sharp, a gay father and missing persons investigator, accepts an invitation to a wedding on a yacht in Ontario's Prince Edward County. It seems just the thing to bring Dan closer to his noncommittal partner, Bill, a respected medical professional with a penchant for sleazy after-hours clubs, cheap drugs, and rough sex. But the event doesn't go exactly as planned.
When a member of...
2013 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery -- Winner
When missing persons investigator Dan Sharp attends a wedding, he finds himse...
Dan Sharp searches the seamy underbelly of the city for a brutal killer.
Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan Sharp makes a grisly find in a burned-out slaughterhouse in Toronto's west end. Someone is targeting known sex offenders whose names and identities were released on the Internet. When an iconic rock star contacts Dan to keep from becoming the next victim, things take a curious turn. Dan's search for a killer takes him underground in Toronto's broken social scene -- a secret world of misfits and guerrilla activists living off the grid -- where he...
Dan Sharp searches the seamy underbelly of the city for a brutal killer.
Following an anonymous tip, missing persons investigator Dan ...
2016 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery -- Shortlisted
Dan Sharp scours Toronto's seamy underbelly after the murder of a notorious nightspot owner, and finds his own life on the line.
When Yuri Malevski, owner of notorious country-and-western bar The Saddle and Bridle, is found dead in his Parkdale mansion, missing-persons investigator Dan Sharp is reluctant to interfere in what he sees as police business. At first, Malevski's sleazy lifestyle and shady associates make the murder look like an open-and-shut case, but Dan reconsiders after being approached...
2016 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery -- Shortlisted
Dan Sharp scours Toronto's seamy underbelly after the murder of a notori...
A modern retelling of the classic Agatha Christie tale of suspense and murder, And Then There Were None.
When Harvey Keill, ex-manager of the Ladykillers, arranges a reunion for his notorious punk band on a remote island off the coast of Seattle, it seems as though the group's glory days are about to return.
One by one, the band members and their guests arrive. Lead singer Spike Anthrax, bassist Pete Doghouse, and guitarist Max Hardcore confront one another for the first time since their well-publicized and highly acrimonious split fifteen years earlier...
A modern retelling of the classic Agatha Christie tale of suspense and murder, And Then There Were None.
