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An important intervention into the thinking around development and dependency in Africa.

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A genealogy of development looking at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions and exploring changes in development discourses.

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A genealogy of development looking at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions and exploring changes in development discourses.

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Under pressure from the World Bank, the International Monetary Funds and the World Trade Organization governments of both industrialized and less developed nations have undertaken extensive reforms and reorganization to streamline their public sectors.

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What is the relationship between social science research and public health policy, particularly in the developing world

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A comprehensive look at the African emigrants in the USA, exploring the contributions they can make toward greater economic and political freedom in Africa. It studies the reasons why they came to America and what types of reforms are needed to allow them to contribute to Africa's development.

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A provocative study of the ways in which peasant and indigenous movements across Africa and Asia are resisting global capitalism.

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A critical, in-depth analysis of the Rwandan governments controversial agricultural reforms.

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This book critically examines the history of humanitarianism and intervention on behalf of Armenia and Armenians from the late nineteenth century to the post-Soviet era. Examining a diverse set of case studies, the contributors show how the case of Armenia informs histories of humanitarianism and, in turn, how the history of humanitarianism illuminates the history of Armenia.

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This book critically examines the history of humanitarianism and intervention on behalf of Armenia and Armenians from the late nineteenth century to the post-Soviet era. Examining a diverse set of case studies, the contributors show how the case of Armenia informs histories of humanitarianism and, in turn, how the history of humanitarianism illuminates the history of Armenia.

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The study of diverse yet comparable regions uncovers structural similarities that override the defective culture theory of developing regions as well as the belief that they are unique ecological phenomena.

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Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to this situation. Learning from its own experience in coping with floods and cyclones, Bangladesh is taking the lead in international climate change negotiations and attempting to persuade the industrialized world to curb emissions.

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Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to this situation. Learning from its own experience in coping with floods and cyclones, Bangladesh is taking the lead in international climate change negotiations and attempting to persuade the industrialized world to curb emissions.

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Its comparative approach in revisionist political economy allows for issues such as the new international division of labor to become central to the analysis of the relationship between developed and underdeveloped countries.

The state-centric approach, although useful, may have missed important undercurrents in civil society.

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Explores the growing resistance to the BRICS nations in Africa

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Explores the growing resistance to the BRICS nations in Africa

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A timely study of the South African governments efforts to improve access to public services and the lessons this holds for global development strategy.

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This analysis of modern Chilean society provides the historical basis for current trends, and serves as good background material for a composite study.

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Will China's economic reforms allow it to join the information revolution, or will its unique political structure keep it insulated from the main currents of global economic development

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Will China's economic reforms allow it to join the information revolution, or will its unique political structure keep it insulated from the main currents of global economic development

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Drawing on research and experience in Bangladesh, this work pulls together economics, sociology and anthropology to explain an emerging social structure in the Third World. These structures bring together international donor agencies with various domestic community and private organizations.

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