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  • Social Stakes of Privatizations in Cameroon
    Hermann-Habib Kibangou
    The devaluation of the CFA franc and the early 90s mark the second wave of privatizations recommended by international financial institutions. The transition from a system of ''social goals'' to that of private capital becomes more and more evident. From the peoples’ point of view, the ongoing reforms imposed from outside often do not take into account the specific situation of...
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    37,59 €

  • Who Knows Tomorrow?
    Sandra Calkins
    Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography shows how Rashaida in north-eastern Sudan deal with unknowns from day-to-day unpredictability to life-threatening dangers. It argues that the amplification of uncertainty in some cases and i...
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    44,39 €

  • Inclusive Education in South Africa and the Developing World
    Sigamoney Manicka Naicker
    This book offers a framework for the implementation of inclusive education in developing countries. It proposes bringing the vulnerable to the centre of planning decisions, recognising the history of special education in psychologizing failure, and that mainstream must own the transformation to inclusive education. ...
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    98,66 €

  • A Cat and Mouse Affair
    Bruno Shora
    Clashes between vendors and authorities have become a common feature of Zimbabwe society. Though vending brings some undesirable effects such as chaotic and disorderly business practices it is noted that vending has a particular role to play in times of high unemployment. The relationship between vendors and the local authorities is reminiscent of a “cat and mouse affair”; high...
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    35,00 €

  • Multi-Level Governance in Developing Economies
    Effective governance is vital for all nations and can be made easier with advanced technology and communication. Through various collaborative efforts and processes, developing nations can enhance their economies with multi-level governance. Multi-Level Governance in Developing Economies is a collection of innovative research on the applications and theories of multi-level gove...
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    255,85 €

  • SADC Gender Protocol 2018 Barometer
    The SADC Protocol on Gender and Development is the only sub-regional instrument in the world that brings together global and continental commitments to gender equality in one instrument used to enhance accountability. The Southern African Gender Protocol Alliance is a network of country and regional NGOs that campaigned for the Protocol, it’s updating, implementation and tracki...
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    92,41 €

  • Miracle Nation
    Israela Meyerstein
    'Miracle Nation: Seventy Stories About The Spirit Of Israel' captures the epic story of the miraculous rebirth of the modern Jewish nation in 1948 and its growth until today, bound up in the varied realms of religious fervor, social justice, political perspectives, and scientific discoveries. These passionate and powerful stories of individuals provide the framework for the rea...
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    18,89 €

  • Miracle Nation
    Israela Meyerstein
    'Miracle Nation: Seventy Stories About The Spirit Of Israel' captures the epic story of the miraculous rebirth of the modern Jewish nation in 1948 and its growth until today, bound up in the varied realms of religious fervor, social justice, political perspectives, and scientific discoveries. These passionate and powerful stories of individuals provide the framework for the rea...
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    29,27 €

  • The Open Veins of Africa
    Tatah Mentan
    There is no discussion on Africa today that does not make reference to the contradiction that exists between its wealth of natural resources and the poverty of most of its people. Africa is not a poor continent, and not all Africans are poor. Yet Africa is depicted as the world’s poorest continent, where the majority of people live with no access to clean water, decent health c...
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    67,69 €

  • Migration in a Globalizing World
    Migration has assumed growing significance in the global development agenda as its potential for economic and social development is increasingly acknowledged. Within the Africa context, perceptions of migration as a negative phenomenon have shifted to recognition of its central role to Africa’s transformation. Despite this shift, emerging migration  dynamics have not been adequ...
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    49,48 €

  • Rethinking Irregular Migration
    Seedy Drammeh
    This book examines the causes of irregular migration, with particular focus on the mass movement of Gambian youth and youth from other parts of the world. These youth risk the journey across the dangerous desert to the Mediterranean Sea with the aim of reaching the West. Investigation shows that poor economic and bad political situations in many developing countries, together w...
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    35,56 €

  • Community-Oriented Education for Health Professionals
    Francis Sarr
    This book provides a framework for curriculum planning and makes the argument for an integrated and interdisciplinary training of health professionals at the community level in The Gambia. The benefits of such an approach are immense given that it is responsive to the socio-economic and cultural needs and demands of the community, which are central to the health of the communit...
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    32,19 €

  • Jokey Horse-Jockey North-South Rapport
    Nkwazi Mhango
    No doubt. North-South relationship involving poor and rich countries is very convoluted; based and built on exploitative, unequal and unfair equilibria. It is purely jockey-horse-like connubium that serves one party as it disserves the other. This is why deconstructing and detoxifying this relationship is sine qua non. The author argues that the parties in this relationship mus...
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    39,69 €

  • Biographies de la Radicalisation
    Mirjam de Bruijn
    La radicalisation est devenue un mot désignant notre monde en couleurs négatives. Ce livre cherche à comprendre ce que c’est que la radicalisation au Sahel et aux Pays-Bas ? Est-elle seulement négative? Quelle diversité de processus sociaux et politiques se trouve derrière ce concept? Les biographies de personnes nous dévoilent les messages cachés dans ce genre de dynamiques. Y...
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    46,76 €

  • Food Security in Africa’s Secondary cities
    Emmanuel Chilanga / Liam Riley / Lovemore Zuze
    This report marks the first stage of AFSUN’s goal of expanding knowledge about urban food systems and experiences of household food insecurity in secondary African cities. It contributes to an understanding of poverty and sustainability in Mzuzu, Malawi, through the lens of household food security. The focus on food as an urban issue not only speaks to the development challenge...
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    34,49 €

  • How To Pack for a World Cruise
    Jackie Chase
    Anticipation is the key to everything we do. We all need help in finding ways to make our lives easier and less stressful. Let this book, 'How to Pack for a World Cruise' smooth out the wrinkles of preparing, organizing and finally packing for your incredible journey. Did your unnecessary stuff weigh too much? Long trips have unique challenges. Overlooking visa requirements can...
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    7,39 €

  • How To Pack for a World Cruise
    Jackie Chase
    Anticipation is the key to everything we do. We all need help in finding ways to make our lives easier and less stressful. Let this book, 'How to Pack for a World Cruise' smooth out the wrinkles of preparing, organizing and finally packing for your incredible journey. Did your unnecessary stuff weigh too much? Long trips have unique challenges. Overlooking visa requirements can...
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    7,39 €

  • Judge Knot
    Todd N Tucker / Todd N. Tucker
    ’Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development. ...
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    165,69 €

  • Judge Knot
    Todd N Tucker / Todd N. Tucker
    ’Judge Knot’ explores the biggest and the most controversial success story in international law: investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, and asks what makes the system tick and what it means for the future of democracy and development. ...
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    57,53 €

  • Mobile Technologies and Socio-Economic Development in Emerging Nations
    As technology advances, mobile devices have become more affordable and useful to countries around the world. As a result, mobile evolution has become an essential part of economic and social advancement. Mobile Technologies and Socio-Economic Development in Emerging Nations provides emerging research on the role of mobile devices as an important aspect of social and economic gr...
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    256,06 €

  • Migration by Boat
    Lynda Mannik
    At a time when thousands of refugees risk their lives undertaking perilous journeys by boat across the Mediterranean, this multidisciplinary volume could not be more pertinent. It offers various contemporary case studies of boat migrations undertaken by asylum seekers and refugees around the globe and shows that boats not only move people and cultural capital between places, bu...
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    44,36 €

  • Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India
    Kenneth Bo Nielsen
    ’Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India’ analyses the political mobilization of farmers in Singur, West Bengal, in defence of their farmland. By foregrounding the everyday politics of popular mobilization, the book sheds new light on the internal politics of one of India’s most talked-about new land wars. ...
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    165,67 €

  • No Dancing, No Dancing
    Denis Dragovic
    What happens to aid projects after the money is spent? Or the people and communities once the media spotlight has left?No Dancing, No Dancing follows the return journey of a former aid worker back to the site of three major humanitarian crises—South Sudan, Iraq and East Timor—in search of what happened to the people and projects. Along the way, he looks for answers to how we ca...
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    21,34 €

  • How Africa Developed Europe
    Nkwazi Mhango
    Whether Africa is developed or not, depends on how and what one addresses. Development is relative. Nonetheless, the fact is: Africa developed Europe; and thereby became underdeveloped. Addressed academically, the notion of development creates many questions amongst which are: Development in what? Whose development? Development for whom? Who defines development? In this volume,...
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    49,43 €

  • Jostling Between 'Mere Talk' & Blame Game?
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    One of the fundamental challenges in rethinking and remaking development in Africa from a Pan African perspective is that too much “mere talk” and “blame game” have played out at the expense of “real action”. The blame game and mere talk on Africa’s poverty and underdevelopment jam have remained printed in bold on the face of the continent, yet Africa’s dire situation warrants ...
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    58,99 €

  • Affordability Issues Surrounding the Use of ICT for Development and Poverty Reduction
    As the world becomes digitalized, developing countries are starting to see an increase in technological advancements being integrated into their society. These advancements are creating opportunities to improve both the economy and the lives of people within these areas. Affordability Issues Surrounding the Use of ICT for Development and Poverty Reduction is a relevant scholarl...
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    256,01 €

  • SIHA Journal
    SIHA
    Women in Islam explores the complexities of gender relations in Muslim communities in the Horn of Africa and beyond, engaging critically with the social, political and cultural challenges associated with the intersection of Islam and gender. With an eclectic selection of essays, academic papers, opinion pieces and personal narratives punctuated with poetry and art, the journal ...
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    44,14 €

  • The Supermarket Revolution and Food Security in Namibia
    Jonathan Crush / Lawrence Kazembe / Ndeyapo Nickanor
    The surprisingly high rate of supermarket patronage in low-income areas of Windhoek, Namibia’s capital and largest city, is at odds with conventional wisdom that supermarkets in African cities are primarily patronized by middle and high-income residents and therefore target their neighbourhoods. What is happening in Namibia and other Southern African countries that make superma...
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    36,15 €

  • Multiple Faces of Khat
    Asnake Kefale / Zerihun Mohammed
    FSS, in collaboration with the Civil Society Support Programme I(CSSPI), designed and implemented a project on khat in Ethiopia. The project had three components: research, national conference and production of a documentary film. The research contained, two studies based on rigorous field research and using qualitative and quantitative data. The research reports, the socio-eco...
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    49,96 €

  • The Political Economy of Poverty, Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Management
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development. Scholars in the Global North have since the Second World War sought to research poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, postulating what they think are the major causes of insipid and abject poverty in the continent, but with little or no success on how to solve...
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    59,02 €


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