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Diffusion Weighted Imaging Of The Genitourinary System - Techniques And Clinical Applications

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 This book discusses diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and its evolving clinical role. Standardization and clinical validation of quantitative DWI related biomarkers is still ongoing, although efforts have been undertaken, especially in the prostate, to provide standardized imaging guidelines for different clinical indications.
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Disrupted Development And The Future Of Inequality In The Age Of Automation

by Andy Sumner e Lukas Schlogl

~~3,96€~~ 3,17€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries.
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Capability Approach, Empowerment And Participation - Concepts, Methods And Applications

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 This book explores the linkages between Amartya Senâ€™s Capability Approach and participatory forms of development â€" especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up.
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Disrupted Development And The Future Of Inequality In The Age Of Automation

by Andy Sumner e Lukas Schlogl

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 This open access book examines the future of inequality, work and wages in the age of automation with a focus on developing countries.
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Risk And The Security-Development Nexus - The Policies Of The Us, The Uk And Canada

by Eamonn Mcconnon

~~59,61€~~ 47,69€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 ‘In this comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis, McConnon demonstrates the extent to which security concerns have come to pervade the development policies of the three major donor countries.’ —Rita Abrahamsen, University of Ottawa, Canada ‘An original and compelling analysis of the security-development nexus of three donor countries here combined with a closer look at how their policies play out in two recipient countries, Kenya and Ethiopia, which are actually more representative than the usual high-profile cases of Afghanistan and Iraq. McConnon’s application of the risk-management lens is theoretically innovative and insightful. A most welcome contribution to the growing literature in this area.’ —Stephen Brown, University of Ottawa, Canada‘The argument that security has been brought in to mainstream development policy partly, but not solely, because of the War on Terror is here meticulously detailed. The implication of this is that the security-development nexus is not an abstract idea, but a risk management strategy by the West. Using extensive documentary evidence McConnon provides a very clear discussion of policy that has big implications for theoretical approaches to development and security.’ —Paul Jackson, University of Birmingham, UKThis book explores the security-development nexus through a study of the merging of security and development in the policies of the US, the UK and Canada. It argues that instead of framing this relationship as a ‘securitisation’ of development, it is best understood as a form of security risk management where development aid is expected to address possible security risks before they emerge. Rather than a single entity, the security-development nexus is instead a complex web of multiple interactions and possibilities. The work at hand is motivated by the increasingly close relationship between security and development actors, which was a consequence ofa number of protracted civil conflicts in the 1990s. These cooperations were presented by donors as a common sense solution to conflict resolution and prevention, with the roots of many conflicts being seen to lie in development problems, and security being considered a necessary condition to allow development projects to take place. However, McConnon concludes that the merging of security and development is still largely driven by conventional hard security concerns.
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Retail Worker Politics, Race And Consumption In South Africa - Shelved In The Service Economy

by Bridget Kenny

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 This book argues that we need to focus attention on the ways that workers themselves have invested subjectively in what it means to be a worker. By doing so, we gain an explanation that moves us beyond the economic decisions made by actors, the institutional constraints faced by trade unions, or the power of the state to interpellate subjects. These more common explanations make workers and their politics visible only as a symptom of external conditions, a response to deregulated markets or a product of state recognition. Instead - through a history of retailing as a site of nation and belonging, changing legal regimes, and articulations of race, class and gender in the constitution of political subjects from the 1930s to present-day Wal-Mart - this book presents the experiences and subjectivities of workers themselves to show that the collective political subject ‘workers’ (abasebenzi) is both a durable and malleable political category. From white to black women’s labour, the forms of precariousness have changed within retailing in South Africa. Workers’ struggles in different times have in turn resolved some dilemmas and by other turn generated new categories and conditions of precariousness, all the while explaining enduring attachments to labour politics.
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Social Movements And The State In India - Deepening Democracy?

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 Questions of the extent to which social movements are capable of deepening democracy in India lie at the heart of this book. In particular, the authors ask how such movements can enhance the political capacities of subaltern groups and thereby enable them to contest and challenge marginality, stigma, and exploitation. The work addresses these questions through detailed empirical analyses of contemporary fields of protest in Indian society - ranging from gender and caste to class and rights-based legislation. Drawing on the original research of a variety of emerging and established international scholars, the volume contributes to an engaged dialogue on the prospects for democratizing Indian democracy in a context where neoliberal reforms fuel a contradictory process of uneven development.
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Fragmentation Of Aid - Concepts, Measurements And Implications For Development Cooperation

by Mario Negre e Timo Casjen Mahn

~~158,34€~~ 126,67€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 This edited volume provides an assessment of an increasingly fragmented aid system. Development cooperation is fundamentally changing its character in the wake of global economic and political transformations and an ongoing debate about what constitutes, and how best to achieve, global development. This also has important implications for the setup of the aid architecture. The increasing number of donors and other actors as well as goals and instruments has created an environment that is increasingly difficult to manoeuvre. Critics describe today's aid architecture as 'fragmented': inefficient, overly complex and rigid in adapting to the dynamic landscape of international cooperation. By analysing the actions of donors and new development actors, this book gives important insights into how and why the aid architecture has moved in this direction. The contributors also discuss the associated costs, but also potential benefits of a diverse aid system, and provide some concrete options for the way forward.
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Cash Transfers And Basic Social Protection - Towards A Development Revolution?

by Moritz Von Gliszczynski

~~59,61€~~ 47,69€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s. The author gives a detailed overview of the history of social protection and identifies the factors that made cash transfers legitimate policy.
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International Migration, Development And Human Wellbeing

by Katie Wright

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 Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' transnationally.
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Adaptation, Poverty And Development - The Dynamics Of Subjective Well-Being

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 The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa.
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Africa Toward 2030 - Challenges For Development Policy

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 Combining studies of demography, climate change, technology and innovation, political development, new actors in international development, and global governance frameworks, this book highlights the major underlying determinants of change in the African context and key uncertainties about the continent's future development prospects.
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Migration And Social Protection - Claiming Social Rights Beyond Borders

by Rachel Sabates-Wheeler e Rayah Feldman

~~118,59€~~ 94,87€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 The growing scale of international migration has reshaped the debate on the social rights and social protection available to people outside their countries of origin. This book uses conceptual frameworks, policy analysis and empirical studies of migrants to explore international migrants' needs for and access to social protection across the world.
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Social Movements In The Global South - Dispossession, Development And Resistance

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 Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This book shows how social movements in Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East politicize development in an age of neoliberal hegemony.
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Challenging Capacity Building - Comparative Perspectives

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 Interrogates the idea of capacity building theoretically and explores the variety of meanings, constructions and practices of capacity building. This book examines capacity building in both developing and developed countries and takes the position that fragile communities are present in all societies.
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Challenging The Aid Paradigm - Western Currents And Asian Alternatives

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 Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western,Â especially Chinese,Â aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.
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Transforming Participation? - The Politics Of Development In Malawi And Ireland

by N. Gaynor

~~59,61€~~ 47,69€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Do participatory processes open a political space to marginalized groups and individuals? Or do they co-opt and coerce groups to reinforce existing inequitable relations? In an innovative comparative study which breaks with tradition this book explores these questions by looking at Malawi and Ireland.
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After 2015: International Development Policy At A Crossroads

by A. Sumner e M. Tiwari

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 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)Â have played a major role in focusing policy since their original incarnation in the mid to late 1990s but what happens when we no longer have the MDGs - what will guide policy after 2015? This book discusses the world and development policy up to and beyond 2015.
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Millennium Development Goals And Beyond - International Assistance To The Asia-Pacific

by Matthew Clarke e Simon Feeny

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 This book examines how international aid donors and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) can assist countries in the Asia-Pacific region achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The book examines the progress countries have made towards the MDGs and highlights the need to tailor the goals to individual country circumstances.
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Transnational Corporations And Development Policy - Critical Perspectives

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 This volume offers a wide-reaching exploration of foreign direct investment and developmental impacts through case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central Europe, also examining the role of 'new players' such as Chinese, Indian and South African TNCs.
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After 2015: International Development Policy At A Crossroads

by A. Sumner e M. Tiwari

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 The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)Â have played a major role in focusing policy since their original incarnation in the mid to late 1990s but what happens when we no longer have the MDGs - what will guide policy after 2015? This book discusses the world and development policy up to and beyond 2015.
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Challenging The Aid Paradigm - Western Currents And Asian Alternatives

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 Challenging the Aid Paradigm critically examines central aspects of Western international aid policy, while at the same time exploring non-western,Â especially Chinese,Â aid and assesses to what extent these may be competitive or complementary.
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Social Movements And The State In India - Deepening Democracy?

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 Questions of the extent to which social movements are capable of deepening democracy in India lie at the heart of this book.
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Cash Transfers And Basic Social Protection - Towards A Development Revolution?

by Moritz Von Gliszczynski

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 Cash Transfers and Basic Social Protection offers a ground-breaking analysis of the discourses that facilitated the rise of cash transfers as instruments of development policy since the 1990s. The author gives a detailed overview of the history of social protection and identifies the factors that made cash transfers legitimate policy.
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