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  • Governing Global Land Deals

    The Role of the State in the Rush for Land

    Edición de Wendy Wolford, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, Ben White ...
    Series series Development and Change Special Issues
    This collection of essays in Governing Global Land Deals provides new empirical and theoretical analyses of the relationships between global land grabs and processes of government and governance.Reframes debates on global land grabs by focusing on the relationship between large-scale land deals and processes of governanceOffers new theoretical insights into the different forms and effects of ... Leer más

    $468 MXN

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  • Does North America Exist?

    Governing the Continent After NAFTA and 9/11

    de Stephen Clarkson ...
    In the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, renowned public intellectual and scholar Stephen Clarkson asks whether North America "exists" in the sense that the European Union has made Europe exist.Clarkson's rigorous study of the many political and economic relationships that link Canada, the United States, and Mexico answers this unusual ... Leer más

    $547 MXN

  • Decentralization and Popular Democracy

    Governance from Below in Bolivia

    de Jean-Paul Faguet ...
    Bolivia decentralized in an effort to deepen democracy, improve public services, and make government more accountable. Unlike many countries, Bolivia succeeded. Over the past generation, public investment shifted dramatically toward primary services and resource distribution became far more equitable, partly due to the creation of new local governments. Many municipalities responded to ... Leer más

    $470 MXN

  • Global Migration and Development

    Edición de Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, the World Bank, United Nations Commissions and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This ... Leer más

    $1,170 MXN

  • The Global Land Grab

    Beyond the Hype

    de Annelies Zoomers, Mayke Kaag ...
    The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - the large-scale acquisition of land in the global South. It is a phenomenon against which locals seem defenceless, and one about which multilateral organizations, such as the World Bank, as well as civil-society organizations and action NGOs have become ... Leer más

    $514 MXN

  • Facing An Unequal World

    Challenges for Global Sociology

    Edición de Raquel Sosa Elízaga ...
    Series series SAGE Studies in International Sociology
    "Raquel Sosa Elízaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading."- Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist, Sociology, Yale UniversityOver recent decades, living conditions in poorer countries have deteriorated, leaving us faced with the present phenomenon of global ... Leer más

    $446 MXN

  • The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development

    From neoliberalism to resource nationalism

    Edición de Paul A. Haslam, Pablo Heidrich ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and ... Leer más

    $1,135 MXN

  • Institutional Pathways To Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps

    de Walton Michael; Bebbington Anthony J.; Dani Anis A.; de Haan Arjan ...
    Questions of equity and inequality have moved to the center of debates on development and poverty reduction. This reflects growing awareness that even countries with high rates of growth can experience stagnating or increasing inequality, and that inequality can itself limit the poverty reducing effects of growth. Indeed, recent work indicates that, in addition to its intrinsic value, equity ... Leer más

    $199 MXN

  • The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch

    Edición de Matias E. Margulis ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    The Global Political Economy of Raúl Prebisch offers an original analysis of global political economy by examining it through the ideas, agency and influence of one of its most important thinkers, leaders and personalities. Prebisch’s ground-breaking ideas as an economist – the terms-of-trade thesis and the economic case for state-led industrialization – changed the world and guided economic ... Leer más

    $1,032 MXN

  • The Amazon from an International Law Perspective

    de Beatriz Garcia ...
    With a vast river network and rainforests extending over eight South American countries, the Amazon plays a vital role particularly in maintaining biodiversity and terrestrial carbon storage. Due to its ecological characteristics, the Amazon benefits not only those countries but also the international community at large. However, the Amazon forests are being rapidly cleared with a consequent loss ... Leer más

    $875 MXN

  • The Vulnerability of Cities

    Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

    de Mark Pelling ...
    When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why some households and ... Leer más

    $1,342 MXN

  • New Order and Progress

    Development and Democracy in Brazil

    de Ben Ross Schneider ...
    Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made ... Leer más

    $474 MXN