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Human Development Report Serie de eBooks

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  • Human Development Report 2023/2024

    Breaking the Gridlock - Reimagining Cooperation in a Polarized World

    de United Nations Development Programme ...
    Series series Human Development Report
    Today, collective action on challenges ranging from climate change mitigation to peace and security is frustratingly slow or stymied altogether. Lack of trust and polarization--both associated with insecurity--exacerbate the gridlock. Shared, interlinked global challenges, like the pandemic and its recovery, are outpacing our willingness and our institutions’ capacities to respond to them. Why, ... Leer más

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Quality of Government

    Edición de Monika Bauhr, Marcia Grimes, Bo Rothstein, Andreas Bågenholm ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Recent research demonstrates that the quality of public institutions is crucial for a number of important environmental, social, economic, and political outcomes, and thereby human well-being. The Quality of Government (QoG) approach directs attention to issues such as impartiality in the exercise of public power, professionalism in public service delivery, effective measures against corruption, ... Leer más

    $165.59 USD

  • The Post-Crisis Developmental State

    Perspectives from the Global Periphery

    Edición de Tamás Gerőcs, Judit Ricz ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The focus of this volume is on the role of the developmental state in a situation in which a series of major crises affects the (semi-) periphery of the global economy. The authors go beyond the established debate on developmental states in East Asia by highlighting a much broader understanding of development and a very different global economic context. They also further the existing debate by ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific: A Companion to the World Development Report

    de World Bank ...
    Toward Gender Equality in East Asia and the Pacific examines the relationship between gender equality and development and outlines an agenda for public action to promote more effective and inclusive development in East Asian and Pacific countries. Written as a companion to the World Development Report 2012 on gender equality and development, the report finds that promoting gender equality ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Polycrisis and Economic Development in the Global South

    Edición de Hebatallah Adam, Ravinder Rena ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    Global polycrisis refers to the simultaneous occurrence of multiple interconnected crises. It is marked by the convergence and interaction of combined events, such as geopolitical tensions, economic instability, environmental degradation, public health emergencies, and social disturbance. In this context, this book explores the challenges and opportunities encountered by the Global South amid ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • The End of the Developmental State?

    Edición de Michelle Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The End of the Developmental State? brings together leading scholars of development to assess the current status of the "developmental state" in several developing and transitional economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, the United Kingdom, China, South Africa, Brazil and India. Has the concept of the developmental state become outmoded? These authors would suggest not. However, they do argue ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Limits to Globalization

    North-South Divergence

    de William R. Thompson, Rafael Reuveny ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    In the post-Cold War era, economic globalization has loomed, at least for some, as the world system's next crisis carrier, creating winners and losers and trampling on the distinctiveness of local cultures. Yet the liberal assumption is that if the market does its job, the poor will catch up to the rich via trade-driven growth and the economies of developed and less developed countries will ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Alleviating World Suffering

    The Challenge of Negative Quality of Life

    Edición de Ronald E. Anderson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering. At the same time it is also the first book framing the fields of global socio-economic development, world health, human rights, peace studies, sustainability, and poverty within the challenge of alleviating suffering and improving quality of life. Both international studies and global development have become specialized ... Leer más

    $98.09 USD

  • Privatization in and of Public Education

    Edición de Antonina Santalova, Kaire Põder ...
    Series series International Policy Exchange
    Privatization of education has become a prevalent global trend, representing a significant shift from viewing education as a public good to considering it as a private commodity. This transformation is closely tied to the modernization of the state under the principles of neoliberalism. A comprehensive analysis, as presented in this book using Ball and Youdell's framework, sheds light on the ... Leer más

    $76.49 USD

  • States of Fragility 2016

    Understanding Violence

    de Collectif ...
    Series series Développement
    The world is getting more violent, and violence is occurring in surprising places. Over the past 15 years, 3.34 billion people, or almost half of the world’s population, have been affected by violence. The number of violent conflicts is decreasing, but conflicts are killing more people: conflict-related deaths have tripled since 2003. Violent extremism and terrorism are also on the rise. The ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Dynamics of EU External Energy Relations

    Fighting for Energy

    de Francesca Batzella ...
    Series series Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
    The Dynamics of EU External Energy Relations examines the behaviour of the European Commission in EU external energy relations paying particular attention to the dynamics existing between the Commission and the member states. It examines the Commission as a constrained policy-entrepreneur trying to expand its power, budget and competences, yet frustrated by member states protective of their ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Safety Nets and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

    de Jannatul Ferdous, AKM Ahsan Ullah ...
    Series series Social Welfare Around the World
    This book investigates the origins, current state, and fundamental value of social safety nets in developing countries, as well as their effectiveness in these settings. Social safety net programs (SSNPs) are critical because they keep those who are already vulnerable from falling deeper into poverty.Analysing how social safety nets benefit the most disadvantaged and marginalized members of ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD