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1. Local Governance and Poverty in Developing Nations

   Edited by Nicky Pouw, Isa Baud

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies. It...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
2. Searching for Security

   Women's Responses to Economic Transformations

   By Isa Baud, Ines Smyth

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

   Human Security is a development buzzword of the 1990s. To attain security people need to be safe from natural disasters, such as famine, and 'man-made' problems, such as unemployment. Women are a particularly insecure section of society with the impact of deprivation disproportionately shouldered...

   Published November 27th 1996 by Routledge