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Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into use in Low Income Countries

by Norman Clark, Andy Frost & Ian Maudlin

Stemming from an 11-year DFID funded programme under its Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS), Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into Low Income Countries reviews...


State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India

by Kunal Sen

When the state and business interact effectively they can promote a more efficient allocation of scarce resources, appropriate industrial policy and a more effective and prioritised removal of key obstacles...


Increasing Resilience to Climate Change in the Agricultural Sector of the Middle East: The Cases of Jordan and Lebanon

by Dorte Verner

This publication aims to assist countries in understanding the specific challenges and opportunities posed by climate change in the agricultural sector in order to increase climate resilience and adapt to climate...


China 2030: Building a Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society

by The World Bank

China should complete its transition to a market economy through enterprise, land, labor, and financial sector reforms, strengthen its private sector, open its markets to greater competition and innovation,...


Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism: West African Labour Mobility and Eu Borders

by Hannah Cross

People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on...


Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development: International Perspectives

by Peter Westoby & Gerard Dowling

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'....


Energy and Electricity in Industrial Nations: The Sociology and Technology of Energy

by Allan Mazur

Energy is at the top of the list of environmental problems facing industrial society, and is arguably the one that has been handled least successfully, in part because politicians and the public do not understand...


Backpacker Tourism and Economic Development: Perspectives from the Less Developed World

by Mark P. Hampton

There has been a phenomenal growth of backpacker tourism from the overland routes to India in the 1960s, to present-day backpacker tourism across the less developed world. As a result there has been significant...


Knowledge, Innovation and Internationalization

by Piergiuseppe Morone

As firms increasingly rely on knowledge as a key factor for innovation, the ability to innovate is increasingly perceived as a key asset for being competitive in international markets. This new volume argues...


Globalization and Development: Rethinking Interventions and Governance

by Arne Bigsten

The key challenge for achieving sustained development in developing countries relates to quality of domestic governance, which in turn is strongly affected by external interventions. Domestic governance includes...


Fraud and Carbon Markets: The Carbon Connection

by Marius-Christian Frunza

The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This timely book is the first to give an overview of fraud in the carbon market....


Overhead Costs

by W. Arthur Lewis

Professor Lewis is to be congratulated upon being among the first economists to tackle the tricky subject of controlling the nationalised industries."Financial Times

This book analyses some of the difficulties...


Protecting Biological Diversity: The Effectiveness of Access and Benefit-Sharing Regimes

by Carmen Richerzhagen

During the last ten years the enormous global loss of biodiversity has received remarkable attention. Among the numerous approaches undertaken to stop or lessen this process, access and benefit-sharing (ABS),...


Social and Economic Policies in Korea: Ideas, Networks and Linkages

by Dong-Myeon Shin

The sustained remarkable economic growth in the East Asian countries - Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore - has brought about a great deal of debate over the role of the state in the market...


Hrd in a Complex World

by Monica Lee

Human Resource Development in a Complex World presents a strong challenge to traditional Human Resource Development. Internationally renowned authors address HRD from within the notions and language of complexity,...


Changing Political Economy of Vietnam: The Case of Ho Chi Minh City

by Martin Gainsborough

This book explores the way in which the state has become commercialised under reform as party and government officials have gone into business and considers the impact that this has had on politics within Ho...


Narrowing the Development Gap in ASEAN: Drivers and Policy Options

by Mark McGillivray & David Carpenter

An important part of the vision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is to ensure that the benefits of development and economic integration are equitably shared by all member states and their...


Water and Climate Change in Africa: Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi

by Patricia E. Perkins

In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave...


Thinking Through Landscape

by Augustin BERQUE

Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen....


Avoiding Skewed Entrepreneurial Strategies

by Ron Beilin & Paul DelFino

This short guide was designed to help small-business owners maintain a sound strategic perspective. Each chapter is, essentially, an introduction to a specific type of strategic thinking. Our goal is to help...