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  • Free Trade

    Myth, Reality and Alternatives

    de Graham Dunkley ...
    Series series Global Issues
    In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade. A policy of free trade is central to today's world-dominating globalization project. The more euphoric globalists uncritically assume that it has universal and unequivocal benefits for all people and countries. And the perpetual negotiations of the World Trade Organization are wholly based ... Leer más

    $682 MXN

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  • A Diamond in the Desert

    Behind the Scenes in Abu Dhabi, the World's Richest City

    de Jo Tatchell ...
    Get a closer look at this glittering, oil-rich city in a "revealing travelogue through the capital of the United Arab Emirates" ( Publishers Weekly).Jo Tatchell first arrived in the city of Abu Dhabi as a child in 1974, when the discovery of oil was quickly turning a small fishing town into a growing international community. Decades later, this Middle Eastern capital is a dizzying metropolis of ... Leer más

    $156 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa

    de Rene Lemarchand ...
    Series series National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century
    Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation—most infamously under Belgium's Leopold II—were followed by decades of civil warfare that spilled into neighboring ... Leer más

    $558 MXN

  • The Ethics of Tourism Development

    de Rosaleen Duffy, Mick Smith ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Drawing upon a variety of important philosophical traditions, this book develops an original perspective on the relations between ethical, economic and aesthetic values in a tourism context. It considers the ethical/political issues arising in many areas of tourism development, including:the profound cultural and environmental impacts on tourist destinationsthe reciprocity (or lack of) in host ... Leer más

    $1,806 MXN

  • Gender Planning and Development

    Theory, Practice and Training

    de Caroline Moser ...
    Gender planning is not an end in itself but a means by which women, through a process of empowerment, can emancipate themselves. Ultimately, its success depends on the capacity of women's organizations to confront subordination and create successful alliances which will provide constructive support in negotiating women's needs at the level of household, civil society, the state and the global ... Leer más

    $1,135 MXN

  • Everyday Corruption and the State

    Citizens and Public Officials in Africa

    de Giorgio Blundo, Jean-Pierre Olivier de-Sardan, N. B. Arifari, M. T. Alou ...
    Daily life in Africa is governed by the 'petty' corruption of public officials in services such as health, transport, or the judicial system. This remarkable study of everyday corruption in three African countries investigates the reasons for its extraordinary prevalence.The authors construct an illuminating analytical framework around the various forms of corruption, the corruptive strategies ... Leer más

    $682 MXN

  • The Invisible Houses

    Rethinking and designing low-cost housing in developing countries

    de Gonzalo Lizarralde ...
    Winner of the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award!There is an increased interest among architects, urban specialists and design professionals to contribute to solve "the housing problem" in developing countries. The Invisible Houses takes us on a journey through the slums and informal settlements of South Africa, India, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and many other countries of ... Leer más

    $1,514 MXN

  • Knowing Poverty

    Critical Reflections on Participatory Research and Policy

    Edición de Rosemary McGee ...
    The use of participatory research techniques to provide policy-makers with information about poor people's perspectives on poverty became increasingly common in the 1990s. This book focuses on the use of participatory research in poverty reduction policies, and presents a series of participants' reflections on recent and ongoing processes. The 1990s witnessed a shift in the application of ... Leer más

    $464 MXN

  • Knowledge Actors and Transnational Governance

    The Private-Public Policy Nexus in the Global Agora

    de D. Stone ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Diane Stone addresses the network alliances or partnerships of international organisations with knowledge organisations and networks. Moving beyond more common studies of industrial public-private partnerships, she addresses how, and why, international organisations and global policy actors need to incorporate ideas, expertise and scientific opinion into their 'global programmes'. Rather than ... Leer más

    $920 MXN

  • Taming the Anarchy

    Groundwater Governance in South Asia

    de Tushaar Shah ...
    In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation infrastructure. However, as vividly illustrated by Tushaar Shah, the orderly irrigation economy that saved millions of rural poor from droughts and famines is now a vast atomistic system of widely dispersed tube ... Leer más

    $1,101 MXN

  • A New Blueprint for a Green Economy

    de Edward B. Barbier, Anil Markandya ...
    Published in 1989, Blueprint for a Green Economy presented, for the first time, practical policy measures for 'greening' modern economies and putting them on a path to sustainable development. This new book, written by two of the Blueprint for a Green Economy authors, revisits and updates its main messages by asking, first, what has been achieved in the past twenty years, and second, what more ... Leer más

    $998 MXN

  • Policy, Politics and Poverty in South Africa

    de Jeremy Seekings, Nicoli Nattrass ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policies both mitigated and reproduced poverty, and explains how and why these policies were adopted. The analysis offers lessons for the study of poverty elsewhere in the world. ... Leer más

    $2,024 MXN