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Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics
This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of...
To Be Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
Why, despite an emphasis on 'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource management (e.g. Water User Associations, Irrigation Committees, Forest Management Councils) not work as planners intended?...
To Be Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of an epochal shift in global order – the fact that global-south countries have taken up leadership roles in peacekeeping missions, humanitarian interventions, and transnational military industries: Brazil has taken charge of the UN military...
To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
Series: ThirdWorlds
This book discusses the European Union’s approach to governance reform in its development assistance relationships with various groups of developing countries. A group of expert authors outline the general features of the position on governance taken by the EU, which is currently the major...
To Be Published July 3rd 2012 by Routledge
The next decade will bring a new set of challenges created by changes in the Triple Constraints—population, climate change, and energy. Since most program life cycles last five to ten years, understanding these issues is a must for today's project, program, and portfolio...
To Be Published July 16th 2012 by Auerbach Publications
This book is written with an acute awareness of the need for new insight to ensure (1) universal protection in basic healthcare; (2) providing choice; (3) efficient production and consumption of healthcare services; (4) financial sustainability of the healthcare system. Defining the public interest...
To Be Published August 20th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
By concentrating on one of the key locations of global manufacturing, this volume offers a contribution to contemporary industry studies. The rates of growth that have characterized the southern Guangdong province in the last three decades are unique, even with respect to the more general and often...
To Be Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
Series: Sport in the Global Society
For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a...
To Be Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
This book recounts the story of the largest and most controversial project in the recent history of British aid - the funding of the Pergau hydroelectric scheme in Malaysia. In 1988, the British defence minister promised civil aid to Malaysia as part of a major arms deal. Although this was entirely...
To Be Published September 10th 2012 by Routledge
In recent years human rights have assumed a central position in the discourse surrounding international development, while human rights agencies have begun to more systematically address economic and social rights. This edited volume brings together distinguished scholars to explore the merging...
To Be Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
