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Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research
ISBN: 9780521180801 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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Placebo as Medicine. the Poverty of Development Intervention and Conflict Resolution Strategies in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
ISBN: 9789783756878 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mission Drift in Microfinance. The Influence of Institutional and Country Risk Indicators on the Trade-Off between the Financial and Social Performance of Microfinance Institutions
ISBN: 9783838201238 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investments in microfinance by institutional investors are growing. The investors benefit from a dual return investment opportunity by balancing financial and social returns. Yet, commercial microfinance institutions tend to focus on their financial performance. Reaching out to wealthier clients while crowding out poorer clients enhances their profitability - a phenomenon called mission drift.§Pim Engels has analysed the data of 600 microfinance institutions operating in 84 countries and presents now new insights to the phenomenon of mission drift. Based on his findings investors can...
Investments in microfinance by institutional investors are growing. The investors benefit from a dual return investment opportunity by balancing finan...
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Microfinance 2.0 - Group Formation & Repayment Performance in Online Lending Platforms During the U.S. Credit Crunch.
ISBN: 9783838201184 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Microfinance 2.0 examines the role of reputation-based intermediaries on the world¿s largest peer-to-peer online lending platform. This marketplace as well as other recently opened lending websites allow people to auction microcredit over the Internet and are in line with the disintermediation in financial transactions through the power of enabling technologies. To mitigate severe information asymmetries in anonymous online transactions, the platforms allow lenders to delegate the screening of potential borrowers and the monitoring of loan repayments to designated group leaders. Thilo Klein...
Microfinance 2.0 examines the role of reputation-based intermediaries on the world¿s largest peer-to-peer online lending platform. This marketplace a...
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People's Participation: Challenges Ahead
ISBN: 9781853394454 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People's Participation draws on the 165 papers discussed at the 1997 World Congress of Participative Convergence in Knowledge, Space and Time, to present the most significant themes arising from this important event. The book looks at the social, political, economic and cultural movements at the heart of Participative Research - where knowledge, space and time are seen as the principal tools for change for the advancement of peoples. It has been published to promote the ongoing discussion amongst economists, politicians, scholars, NGO workers, policymakers, engineers, scientists, social...
People's Participation draws on the 165 papers discussed at the 1997 World Congress of Participative Convergence in Knowledge, Space and Time, to pres...
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153,95 |
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Improved Wood Waste and Charcoal Burning Stoves: A Practitioners Manual
ISBN: 9780946688654 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A manual for those involved in the day-to-day work of stoves projects. The book describes the chief characteristics, both advantages and disadvantages, of 28 types of stoves.
A manual for those involved in the day-to-day work of stoves projects. The book describes the chief characteristics, both advantages and disadvantages...
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
ISBN: 9781400067558 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle...
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through t...
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Financing Renewable Energy Projects: A Guide for Development Workers
ISBN: 9781853393877 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Access to affordable energy is essential for sustainable economic development and improvement in living standards. The aim of this book is to act as a guide for development workers for financing small renewable systems and a source of reference for further in-depth investigation.
The book examines the issues which affect the success of a renewable energy financing program on both a financial and a technical level: those interested in setting up financing schemes for renewable energy technologies must also be aware of the technical parameters, which can then be factored into any... Access to affordable energy is essential for sustainable economic development and improvement in living standards. The aim of this book is to act as a...
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Revolutionizing Development: Reflections on the Work of Robert Chambers
ISBN: 9781849713290 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down development and the championing of participatory approaches. The contributors eloquently demonstrate how he has been at the centre of major shifts in development thinking and practice over this period, popularising terms that are now at the centre of the development lexicon such as... This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambe... |
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Women's Roles in Technical Innovation
ISBN: 9781853393075 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's indigenous technical knowledge and innovative solutions to problems are in evidence across the whole range of food cycle technologies. This book highlights the broad range of expertise that exists in rural areas. The book first gives a brief account of women's indigenous technical knowledge, and its extent. It goes on to explore women's role in the innovation process and how technical innovation has conventionally ignored this. This argument is illustrated through case studies and lessons; and the book ends with guidelines for development practitioners working
with women. Women's indigenous technical knowledge and innovative solutions to problems are in evidence across the whole range of food cycle technologies. This bo...
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Hot-Dip Galvanizing: A Guide to Process Selection and Galvanizing Practice
ISBN: 9781853391903 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A useful technique for extending the life of equipment such as fishing vessels. Describes wet, dry and -old dry- processes, including principles, benefits, equipment, materials, health and safety, power supply, maintenance and quality control.
A useful technique for extending the life of equipment such as fishing vessels. Describes wet, dry and -old dry- processes, including principles, bene...
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Global Maya: Work and Ideology in Rural Guatemala
ISBN: 9780816529872 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peoples experience economic and cultural change as their country joins the global market, focusing on their thoughts about work and sustenance as a way of learning about Guatemala's changing economy. For more than a decade, Liliana Goldin observed in highland towns both the intensification of various forms of production and their growing links to wider markets. In this first book to compare economic ideology across a range of production systems,...
In the central highland Maya communities of Guatemala, the demands of the global economy have become a way of life. This book explores how rural peopl...
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Integrating Sustainable Development into National Frameworks: Policy Approaches for Key Sectors in Small States
ISBN: 9781849290340 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings policy-making for sustainable development into the mainstream of decision-making at all levels of governance and in all sectors. It builds on the 2005 internationally agreed 'Mauritius Strategy' which aims to implement the integration of sustainable development by small island developing states. Designed as a handbook for policy-makers and planners in government, as well as business and civil society leaders, it covers seven of the twenty issues that have been outlined in the Mauritius Strategy as being important for the sustainable development of SIDS - disaster management;...
This book brings policy-making for sustainable development into the mainstream of decision-making at all levels of governance and in all sectors. It b...
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The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey
ISBN: 9780974969466 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Translated into more than 40 languages and 44 published editions, "The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible" has won numerous awards and has been endorsed by Steve Forbes, Walter Williams, John Stossel, Mark Skousen, and Austrian-School economists and educators throughout the world.
Translated into more than 40 languages and 44 published editions, "The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible" has won numerous awards and has been endorsed ...
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Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil
ISBN: 9780804760560 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates participatory budgeting-a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs-to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society.
This book investigates participatory budgeting-a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs-to ask whether its reforms truly mak...
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Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil
ISBN: 9780804760553 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting--a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs--to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking closely at eight cities in Brazil, comparing those that carried out participatory budgeting reforms between 1997 and 2000 with those that did not, the authors examine whether and how institutional...
Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participat...
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Developing Groundwater: A Guide for Rural Water Supply
ISBN: 9781853395963 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To increase access to sustainable supplies of safe water for the poor, groundwater resources need to be exploited successfully, sustainably and economically on a much larger scale than they are at present. Unfortunately, techniques for finding and exploiting groundwater are not widely available.
This book sets out to be a user-friendly guide to developing groundwater for rural water supplies. It is specifically designed and developed to meet the needs of rural water supply project staff in developing countries. It provides information on simple, effective techniques for siting... To increase access to sustainable supplies of safe water for the poor, groundwater resources need to be exploited successfully, sustainably and econom...
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Tax Audit Techniques in Cash Based Economies: A Practical Guide
ISBN: 9780955354045 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical guide explains, for the benefit of tax collection professionals, how to detect unrecorded cash transactions. Most developing countries have largely cash-based economies, where it can be both easy and safe to conceal many transactions from the authorities. The size of the resulting 'informal economy' can rival or even exceed that of the formal economy. Even in developed countries cash transactions are often used to evade tax, thus the guide is of use to professionals worldwide. This second edition has been comprehensively updated, and included new material on brokers, estate...
This practical guide explains, for the benefit of tax collection professionals, how to detect unrecorded cash transactions. Most developing countries ...
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Listen Africans! A Revolution Is Coming: Why It Must Come and How We Should Deal with It
ISBN: 9781450277341 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Etuk has been indefatigable in his profound determination for African revolution as admonished not only in this piece but also in his other works."" As Africa begins her journey into the twenty-fi rst century, the citizens ask: how can we survive? In "Listen Africans A Revolution is Coming," author Emma Samuel Etuk addresses the question of revolution-a fundamental change to the basic fabric of society-and its historical manifestations. Through thorough research, Etuk presents strong arguments about the need for... ""Etuk has been indefatigable in his profound determination for African revolution as admonished not only in this piece but also in his other works... |
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Listen Africans! A Revolution Is Coming: Why It Must Come and How We Should Deal with It
ISBN: 9781450277365 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Etuk has been indefatigable in his profound determination for African revolution as admonished not only in this piece but also in his other works."" As Africa begins her journey into the twenty-fi rst century, the citizens ask: how can we survive? In "Listen Africans A Revolution is Coming," author Emma Samuel Etuk addresses the question of revolution-a fundamental change to the basic fabric of society-and its historical manifestations. Through thorough research, Etuk presents strong arguments about the need for... ""Etuk has been indefatigable in his profound determination for African revolution as admonished not only in this piece but also in his other works... |
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