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mHealth in Practice: Mobile Technology for Health Promotion in the Developing World

by Jonathan Donner & Patricia Mechael

There has recently been an explosion of interest around the application of mobile communication technologies to support health initiatives in developing countries (mHealth). As a result, there is a need to promote...


The Politics of Water in Africa: Norms, Environmental Regions and Transboundary Cooperation in the Orange-Senqu and Nile Rivers

by Inga M Jacobs

Water resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics. In Africa, for example, hydropolitics affect politics and policymaking at the local, national, and international levels....


African Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence

by Peter Dwyer & Leo Zeilig

This groundbreaking analysis examines the gains, contradictions, and frustrations of twenty-first century prodemocracy struggles across Southern Africa


Demography at the Edge: Remote Human Populations in Developed Nations

by dean Carson & Rasmus Ole Rasmussen

Addressing the methodological and topical challenges facing remote demographers, this book compares and contrasts the research, methods and models, and policy applications from remote regions in developed nations....


Upgrading Clusters and Small Enterprises in Developing Countries: Environmental, Labor, Innovation and Social Issues

by Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira

Based on case studies from Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia and India, this volume examines SME clusters and argues that unless they counteract common problems such as very low wages, poor working conditions, poor...


Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in Developing Countries: The Case of Bangladesh

by Ataur Rahman Belal

Using the lens of stakeholder theory, this book examines whether the current practice of corporate social responsibility reporting in developing countries is motivated by a desire to discharge accountability...


Poverty Reduction - An Effective Means of Population Control: Theory, Evidence and Policy

by Mohammed Sharif

The objective of this book is to drive home the fact that it is poverty that is responsible for high fertility and that until the problem of poverty is effectively dealt with the problem of high fertility will...


In the Land of Magic Soldiers

by Daniel Bergner

A chilling, beautifully written narrative of African war

Sierra Leone is the world's most war-ravaged country. There, in a West African landscape of spectacular beauty, rampaging soldiers--many not yet in their...


The Big Necessity

by Rose George

“One smart book . . . delving deep into the history and implications of a daily act that dare not speak its name.” —Newsweek

Acclaimed as “extraordinary” (The New York Times) and “a classic” (Los...


Fighting for Darfur

by Rebecca Hamilton & Mia Farrow

Around the world, millions of people have added their voices to protest marches and demonstrations because they believe that, together, they can make a difference. When we failed to stop the genocide in Rwanda...


Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change

by Lawrence E. Harrison & Jerome Kagan

Developing Cultures: Essays on Cultural Change is a collection of 21 expert essays on the institutions that transmit cultural values from generation to generation. The essays are an outgrowth of a research project...


Confronting Capital: Critique and Engagement in Anthropology

by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Belinda Leach & Winnie Lem

This volume is an exploration of the ways in which political economy as a mode of analysis moves anthropology toward a vital, politically engaged form of scholarship. It advances the understanding of the struggles...


Beyond Good Intentions: A Journey into the Realities of International Aid

by Tori Hogan

Young and idealistic, Tori Hogan travels to Kenya as an intern for Save the Children, intent upon doing her part to improve the lives of refugees. But the cynicism of a young African boy changes Tori’s life...


AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?

by Kim Scipes

This book examines the themes of imperialism and empire from the perspective of the foreign policy program of organized labor in the United States. It details efforts to make real popular democracy within Labor....


Democratization in the Arab World: Prospects and Lessons from Around the Globe

by Laurel E. Miller, Jeffrey Martini & F. Stephen Larrabee

Daunting challenges lie ahead for Arab countries where revolutions have upended longstanding authoritarian regimes. This monograph aims to help policymakers understand the challenges ahead, form well-founded...


Voices of Resistance: Communication and Social Change

by Mohan J. Dutta

This book re-presents voices of resistance from across the globe to document the communicative processes, practices, and frameworks through which neoliberal global policies are currently being defied. Based...


Globalization and Development in East Asia

by Jan Nederveen Nederveen Pieterse & Jongtae Kim

East Asia is widely regarded as the main "winner" in contemporary globalization, unscathed by the economic crisis of 2008, with its leading new industrializing nations and emerging economies. While 20th-century...


Portrait of a Nation: Culture and Progress in Ecuador

by Osvaldo Hurtado

A case study of why Third World countries are still poor, the premise of this book is that while some progress has been made in transforming the political economy of Ecuador, certain behaviors, beliefs and attitudes...


A Critical Analysis of the Efficacy of Law as a Tool to Achieve Gender Equality

by Natalie Persadie

In this book, Natalie Persadie explains that, among developing countries, the achievement of legal advances for women—at either the international or national levels—is particularly difficult where practical...


Decentralisation Hybridized

by Annina Aeberli

South Sudan is undergoing a process of internationally-supported state building of which decentralisation forms part. For the people, decentralisation is understood as a right to self-rule based on native–stranger...