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This work examines the use of popular and corporate culture, retail establishments, historical tradition, and surrealism in community concept marketing and profiles examples of communities from a diverse array of contexts and geographical settings.

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Examines the commercial considerations that drive U.S. development assistance.

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Managing Cooperatives in the Global Economy offers both theoretical arguments and practical insights into how the value-based cooperative model of business provides an effective institutional mechanism for addressing the development challenges in todays competitive economy in different countries across the globe.

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This volume offers a framework for formulating an economic development plan for a local community. Stating that planning often focuses on job creation at the expense of long-term goals, the authors emphasize the secondary and long-term effects of local development activities.

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Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decision makers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Employing original data produced through both quantitative and qualitative research, this title provides an understanding of how art works as an engine for transforming communities.

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This study provides an in-depth analysis of the external debt problem of a country--Mexico--that allegedly faces a debt overhang, which inhibits long-term growth-oriented investment.

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Latin America is often singled out for its high and persistent income inequality. Toward the end of the 1990s, however, income concentration began to fall across the region.

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This book confronts colonial development models to decolonize the methodologies and epistemologies of development in Africa and advocate for Afrocentric alternatives. Using postcolonial, post-developmental, and post-structural theories, the authors advocate for a new direction...

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The countries of the African continent suffer from numerous and severe economic maladies that inhibit their chances for effective economic growth. The problem confronting Africa's policy makers is how to combine overall economic growth with a more equitable distribution of income and economic assistance.

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Regional economic organizations of developing countries have a mixed record of success. This study will interest researchers and graduate-level students of regional economic integration, political economy of developing countries, as well as specialists in Latin America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia.

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The countries of Latin America are plagued by poverty, high rates of population growth and unemployment, low growth in their gross national product, low rates of industrialization, high dependencee on agriculture, and uneven income distribution.

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This resource book documents and analyzes current trends in the economic development of the South Asian countries of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, and evaluates the progress they have made in achieving sustained economic growth and improvement in the quality of life for present and future generations.

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The achievement of better relations among developed and developing countries remains an urgent task as the world community seeks to formulate a new and more equitable economic order.

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This volume examines the experiences of a number of Third World countries in implementing development plans in the 1970s and offers some guidelines for research, development, and analysis of policy.

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The current macro-environment of development has been accompanied by a plethora of new concerns and methods, such as how to consider gender in development projects and how to develop participatory-centered projects.

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The current macro-environment of development has been accompanied by a plethora of new concerns and methods, such as how to consider gender in development projects and how to develop participatory-centered projects.

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Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of Development Projects Observed is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume in Hirschmans groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings.

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The experience accumulated in the wake of more than two decades of sustained effort to promote growth and change in the low-income countries presents a rich field for scholarly inquiry and new insights into the development process.

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Development Without Aid provides a critique of foreign aid as a resource that is unable to provide the dynamism to propel the poorest countries out of poverty. It examines the rapid growth of the worlds diasporas as an alternative dynamic with potential to supersede foreign aid and drive a reassertion of sovereignty by poor states, especially in Africa, over their own development.

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This volume fills a gap in the literature by analyzing basic issues in development economics as they affect a particular type of Third World nation - small island economies.

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An examination of Africas urban residents experimentations with living amidst crisis, to explore and understand responses to diminishing state presence and social marginalisation in distressed cities elsewhere in the world.

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An examination of Africas urban residents experimentations with living amidst crisis, to explore and understand responses to diminishing state presence and social marginalisation in distressed cities elsewhere in the world.