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The Challenge of Health Sector Reform: What Must Governments Do?
ISBN: 9780333736180 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New thinking about the management of public health services has stimulated a widespread movement for health sector reform across the world. This book examines the feasibility and desirability of common reforms in low income countries, based on in-depth case studies in Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, and asks whether governments possess or can develop the capacities needed for these new and often complex roles. The book challenges conventional reform wisdom, and argues that reform approaches are needed that are more sensitive to the institutional characteristics of individual...
New thinking about the management of public health services has stimulated a widespread movement for health sector reform across the world. This book ...
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201,72 zł |
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Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World
ISBN: 9780415357968 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the world there is an increasing movement of populations into urban areas and cities. As a result the demographic, economic, social and cultural characteristics of urban areas are changing, particularly in countries undergoing rapid urbanization. This book explores the different approaches to this internationally within the fields of housing and urban planning with a particular focus on developing countries. Concepts such as "informal settlements,""shelter" and "housing deficit" are explained. The impact of rapid urbanization and associated globalization on land use and housing is...
Throughout the world there is an increasing movement of populations into urban areas and cities. As a result the demographic, economic, social and cul...
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924,88 zł |
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Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World
ISBN: 9780415357975 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key issues of rapid urbanisation with approaches to planning and housing. Outlining and explaining core concepts from a ~informal settlementsa (TM) to a ~sustainabilitya (TM), it focuses on the rapid urbanization of developing countries with case studies from Latin America, Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The impact of rapid urbanization and associated globalization on land-use and housing is described and analyzed with reference to the particular... Written specifically as a teaching text and authored by a team of leading academics in the field, this is the first book to bring together the key ... |
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243,34 zł |
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The Sociology of Post-Colonial Societies: Economic Disparity, Cultural Diversity and Development
ISBN: 9780521578004 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the completely revised and updated version of the immensely successful Sociology of the Third World. This book is about the division of the world into rich and poor countries, and the disparities between rich and poor people, especially in poor countries. It analyzes economic conditions and living standards in poor countries. It discusses droughts, famines and environmental concerns, questions about limits to growth and sustainable development and reviews theoretical perspectives on development and underdevelopment. Later chapters describe the effect and psychology of modernization.
This is the completely revised and updated version of the immensely successful Sociology of the Third World. This book is about the division of the wo...
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209,21 zł |
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The Role of Social Capital in Development: An Empirical Assessment
ISBN: 9780521812917 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social capital can be defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, complemented by the attitudes, norms and values that underlie them. Based on a large volume of newly collected data from ten countries, this is the first book to provide a rigorous empirical testing of the link between social capital and economic development. It documents the pervasive role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development, facilitating the provision of goods and services, and easing political transition and recovery from civil conflicts.
Social capital can be defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, complemented by the attitudes, norms and values that u...
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513,58 zł |
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Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social Policy in Development Contexts
ISBN: 9780521834193 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy--defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare--operates in the poorer regions of the world. Making an important contribution by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America, it develops a new conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regimes in a range of countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa.
Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy--defined as the public pursuit of ...
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490,52 zł |
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Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research
ISBN: 9780521857512 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the international community. Conventional frameworks for understanding development and poverty have focused on money, commodities and economic growth. This 2007 book challenges these conventional approaches and contributes to a new paradigm for development centred on human wellbeing. Poor people are not defined solely by their poverty and a wellbeing approach provides a better means of understanding how people become and stay poor. It examines three...
In a world where many experience unprecedented levels of wellbeing, chronic poverty remains a major concern for many developing countries and the inte...
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490,52 zł |
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African Families in the Twenty-First Century: Prospects and Challenges
ISBN: 9780595364640 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "African Families in the Twenty-First Century" explores the idea that the family is the basic unit of society and an enduring multifunctional institution in Africa. The functions and structures of African families, as well as the multiple roles played by Africa's women, are undergoing structural changes. The ways in which education, employment, and current economic conditions reshape these complex roles are immense. The challenges facing African families and their members-such as globalization, war, poverty, economic restructuring, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, harmful traditional practices,...
"African Families in the Twenty-First Century" explores the idea that the family is the basic unit of society and an enduring multifunctional institut...
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45,93 zł |
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Society, Intellectuals and Cultural Change In the Developing Countries
ISBN: 9780595412433 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a result of centuries-old interactive internal and external cultural and economic factors, developing countries suffer from illiteracy, poverty, corruption, oppression, and other ills. These have led and continue to lead to the disruption of the natural flow of socio-political and economic development.
In the developing countries, there is inadequate grasp of politics, which permeates all social relations, and is a way to gain and wield influence with a view to achieve certain goals. In order for the developing people to be able to achieve progress in nation-building, political... As a result of centuries-old interactive internal and external cultural and economic factors, developing countries suffer from illiteracy, poverty, co...
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61,30 zł |
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Technology and Developing Countries: Practical Applications, Theoretical Issues
ISBN: 9780714641393 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The relationship between technology and development is explored by economists, policy analysts and other experts.
The relationship between technology and development is explored by economists, policy analysts and other experts.
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277,42 zł |
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Uncertain Safari: Kenyan Encounters and African Dreams
ISBN: 9780761828402 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uncertain Safari deals with the contours and complexities of African life today. Based on author Allan Winkler's personal experiences living and working in Kenya and traveling to many other parts of the continent, the book focuses primarily on East Africa and concentrates on Kenya in particular.
Uncertain Safari deals with the contours and complexities of African life today. Based on author Allan Winkler's personal experiences living and worki...
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256,59 zł |
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Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development and Society in a Disputed Region
ISBN: 9780765613578 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The subject of Tibet is highly controversial, and Tibet, as a political entity, is defined differently from source to source and audience to audience. The editors of this path-breaking, multidisciplinary study have gathered some of the leading scholars in Tibetan and ethnic studies to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Tibet question. "Contemporary Tibet" explores essential themes and issues concerning modern Tibet. It presents fresh material from various political viewpoints and data from original surveys and field research. The contributors consider such topics as representations and...
The subject of Tibet is highly controversial, and Tibet, as a political entity, is defined differently from source to source and audience to audience....
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223,87 zł |
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The Spirit of Development: Protestant Ngos, Morality, and Economics in Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9780804753364 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religious NGOs are important sources of humanitarian aid in Africa, entering where the welfare programs of weakened states fail to provide basic services. As collaborators and critics of African states, religious NGOs occupy an important structural and ideological position. They also, however, illustrate a key irony--how economic development, a symbol of science, progress, and this-worldly material improvement, borrows heavily from other-worldly faith. Through a study of two transnational NGOs in Zimbabwe, this book offers a nuanced depiction of development as both liberatory and limiting....
Religious NGOs are important sources of humanitarian aid in Africa, entering where the welfare programs of weakened states fail to provide basic servi...
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116,78 zł |
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Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea
ISBN: 9780804753418 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While ethnography ordinarily privileges anthropological interpretations, this book attempts the reciprocal process of describing indigenous modes of analysis. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with the Yonggom people of New Guinea, the author examines how indigenous analysis organizes local knowledge and provides a framework for interpreting events, from first contact and colonial rule to contemporary interactions with a multinational mining company and the Indonesian state. This book highlights Yonggom participation in two political movements: an international campaign... While ethnography ordinarily privileges anthropological interpretations, this book attempts the reciprocal process of describing indigenous modes o... |
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442,97 zł |
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Agroecology: The Science of Sustainable Agriculture, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780813317182 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition builds on the explosion of research on sustainable agriculture since the late 1980s. By separating myth from reality, Miguel Altieri extracts the key principles of sustainable agriculture and expounds on management systems that really work. Providing case studies of sustainable rural development in developing countries, he goes beyond a mere description of practices to include data that reveal the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of alternative projects.Each chapter of Agroecology has been enriched and updated with the latest research results from around the...
This new edition builds on the explosion of research on sustainable agriculture since the late 1980s. By separating myth from reality, Miguel Altieri ...
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277,42 zł |
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The State of World Rural Poverty: An Inquiry Into Its Causes and Consequences
ISBN: 9780814737545 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poverty is spreading. There are now as many people living in absolute poverty--almost a billion in the rural Third World alone--as lived on the entire planet only a century ago. Yet poverty continues to be shrouded in mystery. Consider that: Four-fifths of the world's poor live in rural areas; About 340 million people worldwide are currently chronically ill from malnutrition; Over 500 million do not get enough calories to do a full day's labor; At a time when enough grain is being produced to provide everyone in the world with twice the daily minimum caloric requirements, global... Poverty is spreading. There are now as many people living in absolute poverty--almost a billion in the rural Third World alone--as lived on the ent... |
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150,91 zł |
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Solid Waste Landfills in Middle- And Lower-Income Countries: A Technical Guide to Planning, Design, and Operation
ISBN: 9780821344576 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As cities grow and produce more waste, deciding where all the waste will go becomes a public health priority. Although many cities have reserved dumps for waste, the dumps are open. Therefore, converting these dumps to controlled and sanitary landfills is a critical step for protecting public health and the environment. This guide serves as a practical tool for waste managers in middle- and lower-income countries to make gradual improvements in the short term by upgrading disposal of wastes at modest cost, while still providing acceptable levels of environmental protection. In the medium to...
As cities grow and produce more waste, deciding where all the waste will go becomes a public health priority. Although many cities have reserved dumps...
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141,12 zł |
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A Sourcebook of Hiv/AIDS Prevention Programs
ISBN: 9780821357576 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 1. This Sourcebook aims to support efforts by countries to strengthen the role of the education sector in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. It was developed in response to numerous requests for a simple forum to help countries share their practical experiences of designing and implementing programs that are targeted at school-age children. The Sourcebook seeks to fulfill this role by providing concise summaries of programs, using a standard format that highlights the main elements of the programs and makes it easier to compare the programs with each other. A Sourcebook of HIV/AIDS Prevention...
Volume 1. This Sourcebook aims to support efforts by countries to strengthen the role of the education sector in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. It was de...
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184,98 zł |
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Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge
ISBN: 9780821368862 / Angielski / Miękka / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early childhood, from birth through school entry, was largely invisible worldwide as a policy concern for much of the twentieth century. Children, in the eyes of most countries, were 'appendages' of their parents or simply embedded in the larger family structure. The child did not emerge as a separate social entity until school age (typically six or seven). 'Africa's Future, Africa's Challenge: Early Childhood Care and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa' focuses on the 130 million children south of the Sahel in this 0-6 age group. This book, the first of its kind, presents a balanced...
Early childhood, from birth through school entry, was largely invisible worldwide as a policy concern for much of the twentieth century. Children, in ...
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102,18 zł |
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The Awake Project, Second Edition: Uniting Against the African AIDS Crisis
ISBN: 9780849911750 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Today, this very day, 5,500 Africans will die of AIDS. If this isn't emergency, what is?" -Bono (U2) The aWAKE Project, Second Edition is an updated collection of stories and essays geared toward educating and mobilizing Americans to help with the AIDS crisis in Africa. Action is needed for a continent on which five people die every minute from the deadly AIDS virus. aWAKE stands for: AIDS-Working toward Awareness, Knowledge and Engagement. Compiled of articles written by significant speakers on the AIDS issue, ranging from Nelson Mandela to Kay Warren, The aWAKE... "Today, this very day, 5,500 Africans will die of AIDS. If this isn't emergency, what is?" -Bono (U2) The aWAKE Project, Second Edition |
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57,60 zł |
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