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The Korean State and Social Policy: How South Korea Lifted Itself from Poverty and Dictatorship to Affluence and Democracy
ISBN: 9780199734351 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a sophisticated and affluent economy? And how could a ruthlessly authoritarian regime metamorphose with relative ease into a stable democratic polity? South Korea was long ruled with harsh authoritarianism, but, strangely, the authoritarian rulers made energetic use of social policy. The Korean State and Social Policy observes South Korean public policy from 1945 to 2000 through the prism of social policy to examine how the rulers operated and worked....
There are two great mysteries in the political economy of South Korea. How could a destroyed country in next to no time become a sophisticated and aff...
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Working Hard, Working Poor: A Global Journey
ISBN: 9780199794645 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than three billion people, nearly half of humankind, live on less than two-and-a-half U.S. dollars per person per day. Studies have shown repeatedly that the main and often the sole asset of the poor is their labor. It follows that to understand global poverty one must understand labor markets and labor earnings in the developing world. Excellent books exist on ending world poverty that discuss in depth many important aspects of economic development but do not focus on employment and self-employment, work and non-work. Working Hard, Working Poor fills in where the other books...
More than three billion people, nearly half of humankind, live on less than two-and-a-half U.S. dollars per person per day. Studies have shown repeate...
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India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®
ISBN: 9780199973590 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. According to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live in the world's second-largest economy, after China but ahead of the United States and the European Union. A democracy and an open society compared to China, India's destiny matters deeply to a West whose influence in shaping the 21st century will decline as that of these two Asian giants and other emerging economies in Africa and Latin America rise. In India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know(r), Mira Kamdar, a fellow at the Asia...
According to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live in ...
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Displaced: The Human Cost of Development and Resettlement
ISBN: 9780230117860 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of oral histories that reveal the loss of cultural continuity, identity, shifts in family responsibilities, gender roles and fractured relationships between generations that are just some of the challenges people face as they attempt to rebuild lives and communities.
A collection of oral histories that reveal the loss of cultural continuity, identity, shifts in family responsibilities, gender roles and fractured re...
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112,95 |
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Globalization and Emerging Societies: Development and Inequality
ISBN: 9780230354494 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the setting of twenty-first century globalization this volume focuses on emerging societies, rather than emerging markets or powers. Adopting a sociological perspective, each chapter focuses on development and social inequality in emerging societies, with contributions from renowned international scholars.
In the setting of twenty-first century globalization this volume focuses on emerging societies, rather than emerging markets or powers. Adopting a soc...
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201,72 |
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Political Change and Underdevelopment: A Critical Introduction to Third World Politics
ISBN: 9780333698037 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This clearly-written and comprehensive introductory text provides a critical review of the principal theoretical approaches to the study of Third World politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Arguments are illustrated by examples drawn from a wide and diverse range of regions and countries. All chapters have been extensively amended and updated for this substantially revised edition to include such developments as the debt crisis and democratisation, and a new chapter has been added on the impact of globalisation on the postcolonial world.
This clearly-written and comprehensive introductory text provides a critical review of the principal theoretical approaches to the study of Third Worl...
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Democratization in the Third World: Concrete Cases in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
ISBN: 9780333717295 / Angielski / Twarda / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America against the background of theoretical introductions and comparisons with the Swedish historical experience of democratisations. The authors, from seven different continents, examine civil society and its relation to the state throughout the world and assess prospects for sustainable democratization.
Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and La...
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Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications: Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa
ISBN: 9780415501026 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin, including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines. The African Group of countries has been in the forefront of countries agitating in the World Trade Organization TRIPS Council for the extension of this special protection and of the multilateral register to industries which are of interest to developing countries, primarily agriculture. The so-called "extension...
The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product ...
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Feeding India: Livelihoods, Entitlements and Capabilities
ISBN: 9780415529679 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not only does India account for approximately one quarter of the world's under-nourished persons, it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may not provide an assumed panacea to food security. This book takes on this challenge. It explains how India's chronic food security problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic, political and environmental processes. It contends that under-nutrition and hunger are lagging...
Food security is one of the twenty-first century's key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not o...
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Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World: A Regional Perspective
ISBN: 9780415776226 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World is the first book of its kind to synthesize global and regional issues, challenges, and practices related to cultural heritage and tourism, specifically in less-developed nations. The importance of preservation and management of cultural heritage has been realized as an increasing number of tourists are visiting heritage attractions. Although many of the issues and challenges developing countries face in terms of heritage management are quite different from those in the developed world, there is a lack of consolidated research... Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the Developing World is the first book of its kind to synthesize global and regional issues, challenges, ... |
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Social Capital in Developing Democracies: Nicaragua and Argentina Compared
ISBN: 9780521140843 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Anderson s Social Capital in Developing Democracies explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization and the limits of that contribution. Anderson finds that in Nicaragua strong, positive, bridging social capital has enhanced democratization, while in Argentina the legacy of Peronism has created bonding and non-democratic social capital that perpetually undermines the development of democracy. Faced with the reality of an anti-democratic form of social...
Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Anderson s Social Capital in Developin...
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Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society
ISBN: 9780521713771 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The remarkable story of Bangladesh, which is becoming of increasing interest to the international community.
The remarkable story of Bangladesh, which is becoming of increasing interest to the international community.
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135,95 |
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Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
ISBN: 9780691150451 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its... How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, A... |
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Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa
ISBN: 9780739176146 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa is organized into three sections or parts, the first focusing on the past and the history of development communication scholarship; the second analyzes theoretical issues, and finally a third section that looks at country cases. The first part provides several perspectives on the historical development of the field as it pertains to Africa. Some of these look at ideological, indigenous contributions, and the particular importance of gender issues. The second section provides a critique of development communication theory and provides a more...
Re-imagining Development Communication in Africa is organized into three sections or parts, the first focusing on the past and the history of developm...
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498,55 |
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Disaster Management in Australia: Government Coordination in a Time of Crisis
ISBN: 9781138049123 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Selective Feeding Programmes
ISBN: 9780855980979 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive manual for use in treating different degrees of malnutrition in emergency situations, this book continues to be an important reference for emergency planners and field-workers.
A comprehensive manual for use in treating different degrees of malnutrition in emergency situations, this book continues to be an important reference...
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Food Scarcity and Famine: Assessment and Response
ISBN: 9780855981457 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a detailed guide to the accurate assessment of the nutritional needs of populations suffering from the effects of food scarcity and famine.
This is a detailed guide to the accurate assessment of the nutritional needs of populations suffering from the effects of food scarcity and famine.
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In the Shadow of Violence: Politics, Economics, and the Problems of Development
ISBN: 9781107684911 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations.
This book explains how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations.
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Making Globalisation
ISBN: 9781403948687 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new to the topic. It deals even-handedly with all the various dimensions of globalization--political, economic, social and cultural--and particularly draws attention to the role of people in processes of globalization. The book's historical dimension and its multicultural focus ensure that globalization is shown neither to be an inexorable process nor one that can be equated simply with Westernization.
This book offers a clear and concise account of the key debates in the globalization literature, serving as an accessible introduction to students new...
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Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage
ISBN: 9781405192811 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism.
Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politic...
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