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E-Adoption and Technologies for Empowering Developing Countries: Global Advances
ISBN: 9781466600416 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The adoption of technology has provided opportunities for increased participation in global affairs both at an individual and organizational level. As a discipline, e-adoption focuses on the requirements, policies, and implications of widespread technology use in developed and developing countries. E-Adoption and Technologies for Empowering Developing Countries: Global Advances reviews the impact technology has had on individuals and organizations whose access to media and resources is otherwise limited. With overviews of topics including electronic voting, electronic delivery systems, social...
The adoption of technology has provided opportunities for increased participation in global affairs both at an individual and organizational level. As...
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Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage
ISBN: 9781405192828 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 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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293,86 |
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Governance for Sustainable Development: The Challenge of Adapting Form to Function
ISBN: 9781845428570 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an original study of the challenge of implementing sustainable development in Western democracies. It highlights the obstacles which sustainable development presents for strategic governance and critically examines how these problems can best be overcome in a variety of different political contexts. The renowned international contributors, including leading policy experts, try to identify the forms of governance necessary to realize the functions of sustainable development. With the help of detailed case studies, they document and analyze specific governance mechanisms for...
This book is an original study of the challenge of implementing sustainable development in Western democracies. It highlights the obstacles which sust...
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226,58 |
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Afl-Cio's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?
ISBN: 9780739135020 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed forms, this extends not only to the worker next to you, but to working people all around the world, wherever they might be. Some of the foremost proponents of these principles in the United States since the 1880s has been the American Federation of Labor (AFL), then later the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and since their merger in 1955, the AFL-CIO.
The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and ...
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215,50 |
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Burmese Refugees: Letters from the Thai-Burma Border
ISBN: 9780615471075 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Burmese Refugees: Letters from the Thai-Burma Border The misrule of the Burmese military junta continues to be the main catalyst of refugees in Southeast Asia today. In this collection of letters, learn about the true stories of people who have fled from that regime. All of the accounts are written by the refugees themselves and explain how they became asylum seekers, what life is like in the camps, and what they envision for their future. These stories document persons from the 8888 generation, the 2007 Saffron Revolution, and various ethnic struggles. This book contains the narratives of...
Burmese Refugees: Letters from the Thai-Burma Border The misrule of the Burmese military junta continues to be the main catalyst of refugees in Southe...
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141,41 |
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The Cost of Inaction: Case Studies from Rwanda and Angola
ISBN: 9780674065581 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is motivated by the idea that the cost of inaction can be much greater than the cost of action. Inaction can lead to serious negative consequences for individuals, the economy, and society. The consequences of a failure to reduce extreme poverty, for example, typically include malnutrition, preventable morbidity, premature mortality, incomplete basic education, and other human and social development costs. In this volume, the authors seek to clarify exactly what is meant by cost of inaction. They develop a methodology to account for the consequences and estimate the costs of a...
This book is motivated by the idea that the cost of inaction can be much greater than the cost of action. Inaction can lead to serious negative conseq...
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87,38 |
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Energy Dimension: A Practical Guide to Energy in Rural Development Programmes
ISBN: 9781853390746 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helps planners identify energy needs early on so they can be integrated into project design. Summarizes key issues, with detailed discusson of energy options and the dynamics of supply and demand; plus fact sheets and checklists for quick reference.
Helps planners identify energy needs early on so they can be integrated into project design. Summarizes key issues, with detailed discusson of energy ...
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115,42 |
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Living Through Crises: How the Food, Fuel, and Financial Shocks Affect the Poor
ISBN: 9780821389409 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and how effective were they at averting major impacts? These are the questions addressed by this book, which emerged out of qualitative crisis monitoring initiatives carried out by IDS and the World Bank. As such, this is not a book about the causes of the crisis or how to prevent future crises. Instead, this book is about how people lived through the severe economic turmoil of recent years, how they were affected, and what they did to cope,...
What did the global food, fuel, and financial crises of 2008-11 mean to people living in the developing world? How did people cope with the crisis and...
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166,52 |
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Life, Fish and Mangroves: Resource Governance in Coastal Cambodia
ISBN: 9780776607726 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Life, Fish and Mangroves, Melissa Marschke explores the potential of resource governance, offering a case study of resource-dependent village life. Following six households and one village-based institution in coastal Cambodia over a twelve-year period, Marschke reveals the opportunities and constraints facing villagers and illustrates why local resource management practices remain delicate, even with a sustained effort. She highlights how government and business interests in community-based management and resource exploitation combine to produce a complex, highly uncertain dynamic....
In Life, Fish and Mangroves, Melissa Marschke explores the potential of resource governance, offering a case study of resource-dependent villag...
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124,89 |
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Assessment of Development Results: Angola
ISBN: 9789211263640 / Angielski / Miękka / 91 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report presents an independent evaluation managed by the Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Angola in 2012. It assesses UNDP's overall contribution to the development of the country over the most recent programming cycles, as well as the strategy and performance of UNDP-Angola during the last programme cycles and their action plans.
This report presents an independent evaluation managed by the Evaluation Office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Angola in 2012. ...
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73,42 |
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Pakistan's development challenges: Federalism, Security and Governance
ISBN: 9781452802558 / Angielski / Miękka / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book explores the development challenges faced by Pakistan in the context of rising problems in the area of federal governance and extra ordinary security issues in the wake of Al-Qaida and Taliban led terrorism and its difficulties with neighboring India.Frequent military coups often supported by the U.S. have played havoc with Pakistan's social fabric and its political development.The book offers detailed analysis of the issues and ventures with solutions and prescriptions.
The book explores the development challenges faced by Pakistan in the context of rising problems in the area of federal governance and extra ordinary ...
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80,92 |
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Belize Da Speak: An Oral History of Independence
ISBN: 9781466451292 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of interviews with countrymen depicts the thoughts, emotions, and hopes of Belizeans during the time of its independence from Great Britain.
A collection of interviews with countrymen depicts the thoughts, emotions, and hopes of Belizeans during the time of its independence from Great Brita...
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Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change
ISBN: 9781557536273 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book re-presents voices of resistance from across the globe to document the communicative processes, practices, and frameworks through which neoliberal global policies are currently being defied. Based on examples, case studies, and ethnographic reports, Voices of Resistance serves as a space for engaging various perspectives from the global margins in dialogue. The emphasis of the book is on the core idea that creating spaces for listening to voices of resistance fosters openings for the politics of social change"interweaving the stories of the local, the national, and the global. The...
This book re-presents voices of resistance from across the globe to document the communicative processes, practices, and frameworks through which neol...
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88,11 |
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Communicating Financial Management with Non-Finance People: A Manual for International Development Workers
ISBN: 9781853397325 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strong financial management skills are essential to promote high program standards in international development organizations. Many non-finance people find numbers and financial techniques difficult, and some just give up or expect someone else to handle them. However, NGO managers and other staff are responsible for sound financial management and without full understanding their programs will be, at best, less effective, and, at worst, vulnerable to going unfunded.
To help avoid these problems, many development agencies provide financial training for their non-finance staff, and... Strong financial management skills are essential to promote high program standards in international development organizations. Many non-finance people...
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123,12 |
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Provocations for Development
ISBN: 9781853397332 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do we use obscure words to impress our colleagues - or fashionable ones to win research proposals? How do poor people define their poverty? How can we use aid budgets most effectively? Are many of our actions against poverty simple, direct... and wrong?
Provocations for Development is an entertaining and unsettling collection of writings that questions concepts, conventions and practices in development. It is made up of short and accessible writings by Robert Chambers, many from the past ten years and some from earlier, reflecting on the evolution of concepts like... Do we use obscure words to impress our colleagues - or fashionable ones to win research proposals? How do poor people define their poverty? How can we...
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100,00 |
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The Future of Public Water Governance: Has Water Privatization Peaked?
ISBN: 9780415713139 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The privatization of water supply and wastewater systems, together with institutional restructuring of governance through decentralization and the penetration of global firms in local and regional markets have been promoted as solutions to increase economic efficiency and achieve universal water supply and sanitation coverage. Yet a significant share of service provision and water resources development remains the responsibility of public authorities. The chapters in this book with case evidence from Argentina, Chile, France, the USA, and other countries address critical questions that... The privatization of water supply and wastewater systems, together with institutional restructuring of governance through decentralization and the ... |
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685,68 |
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Seeds for Growth. Financing Smallholder Farming in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9781920409678 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poverty and hunger continue to be the biggest challenges in Africa, yet eight years into the Maputo Protocol, in which governments pledged to allocate 10 per cent of their national budgets to agriculture, this sector remains seriously underfunded. Seeds for Growth: Financing smallholder farming in southern Africa explores how governance and political decision making about the allocation of resources could transform the smallholder agricultural landscape in southern Africa. It affirms the role smallholder agriculture can play in the pursuit of social and economic justice. The authors take a...
Poverty and hunger continue to be the biggest challenges in Africa, yet eight years into the Maputo Protocol, in which governments pledged to allocate...
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204,40 |
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Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis
ISBN: 9780198794240 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who owns what in it? Who has the power to influence its shape and changes in it over time? What does it mean to be a precarious and informal worker in the private minibuses that provide public transport in Dar es Salaam? These are the main questions that inform this in-depth case study of Dar es Salaam's public transport system over more than forty years. The growth of cities and informal economies are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. Taken for a Ride addresses both, drawing...
How does public transport work in an African city under neoliberalism? Who owns what in it? Who has the power to influence its shape and changes in it...
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386,78 |
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The Exodus Is Not Over: Migrations from the Ruptured Homelands of Northeast India
ISBN: 9789386338136 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economic deprivation, insurgencies and deadly ethnic clashes have driven thousands of impoverished men and women from the Northeastern region of India to seek a better life in the towns and cities of mainland India and further abroad. Some find themselves working amidst the unimaginable opulence of five-star hotels, casinos and cruises. However, for many, their jobs in Delhi, Bengaluru, Goa and other metropoles make them targets of racism, sexual harassment and class exploitation. In response, communities of migrants discover ways of reproducing their cultures in alien soil,... Economic deprivation, insurgencies and deadly ethnic clashes have driven thousands of impoverished men and women from the Northeastern region of In... |
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80,88 |
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A Bucket of Water: Reflections on Sustainable Rural Development
ISBN: 9781853399701 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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389,26 |
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