An increasingly popular view holds that institutions--in particular, the rule of law--are the keys to unlocking the developing world's full growth potential.
Rapidly increasing global demand for electricity, heightened worries over energy and water security, and climate-change anxieties have brought the potential merits of nuclear energy squarely back into the spotlight.
For the past decade, humanitarian actors have increasingly sought not only to assist people affected by conflicts and natural disasters, but also to protect them.
This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death.
This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death.
Economic development depends heavily on the growth of social sectors like education, healthcare, gender equality, as well as factors like income, consumption, investment and trade.
Economic development depends heavily on the growth of social sectors like education, healthcare, gender equality, as well as factors like income, consumption, investment and trade.
This book examines food resistance movements as a form of alternative food network, charting the author's journey as a cultural anthropologist through three food resistance movements.
This handbook provides an extensive overview of the links between quality of life and social change as pursued in not only humanitarian and development work, but also in the private sector and academia.
First published in 1989, The Competitiveness of European Industry helps in developing our understanding of the process of improving and measuring industrial competitiveness.
First published in 1989, The Competitiveness of European Industry helps in developing our understanding of the process of improving and measuring industrial competitiveness.
First published in 1988, The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe states that since de-Stalinisation began in Eastern Europe, the 'dead hand' of institutional Marxism has been eroded by revisionist Marxism, with the turn to young Marx and the philosophy of human emancipation to undermine prevailing orthodoxies.
With the arrival of the 'Internet of Things' (IoT), smartphones, real-time payments systems, plus FinTech activity, Financial Inclusion services can now be integrated into a country's National Payment System (NPS), which means there should be no systemic barriers to transitioning the socio-economic pyramid, as actors build their financial status.
This book introduces and demonstrates the state-of-the art research and development in tackling sustainable urban and rural integration, supported by digitalization and digital transformation in rural areas with Industry 4.
Critical of the economic and political power relations in contemporary India, this book is written from the vantagepoint of the working masses whose basic economic and democratic rights remain unmet.
This fully revised and expanded new edition provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and business actors to multilateral development banks, donors, and cities.
This fully revised and expanded new edition provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and business actors to multilateral development banks, donors, and cities.
Globalization, Urbanization, and Civil Society is an interdisciplinary compilation of chapters concerning civil society in the global geopolitical context.
Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxation have existed for a century and great wealth contrasts with abject poverty.
Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxation have existed for a century and great wealth contrasts with abject poverty.
Globalization, Urbanization, and Civil Society is an interdisciplinary compilation of chapters concerning civil society in the global geopolitical context.
Ce dossier propose de repolitiser l'analyse des politiques de l'aide au développement, concevant celles-ci comme un point d'observation privilégié sur la fabrique multi-située de l'action publique, l'exercice internationalisé du pouvoir et les significations du politique.
Une part accrue de l'électronucléaire dans le mix électrique mondial est d'autant plus indiquée que cette source d'électricité est à très haute densité énergétique, efficace, sûre, fondée sur une technologie robuste et de pointe, s'inscrivant dans le cadre des préoccupations actuelles de réduction drastique de la pollution et répondant aux critères de la politique bas carbone promue en Occident.
Le processus d'intégration de la Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l'Afrique centrale (CEMAC) est ancien, enclenché au début des années 1960 lors des accessions à la souveraineté internationale des pays qui la composent.
La question du sous-développement de l'Afrique révèle un véritable paradoxe, voire une incongruité, puisque le continent déborde de richesses utilisées et transformées par l'ensemble de la planète.
Est avant tout tracé un tableau synoptique du régime juridique du commerce transfrontalier dans la Région, plus particulièrement dans l'axe oriental de la R.
La Chine se développe à une vitesse étonnante et est considérée comme le marché le plus prometteur, notamment avec les nouvelles routes de la soie et l'accord d'investissement UE-Chine en cours de validation.
