Minimal text and stunning photographs from around the world describe the remarkable, and often dangerous, journeys children make every day on their way to and from school. No simple school bus picks them up each day, but rather children...
Developing countries
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Author:McCarney, RosemarySummary: -
Author:Cullen, RoySummary:The fight to eliminate world poverty is being severely hampered by corrupt leaders in developing countries. According to the African Union, some $150 billion is lost every year to corruption in Africa. In China, it is estimated...
- Author:Black, MaggieSummary:
Overseas aid and international development are catch-all terms that cover a multitude of activities - and abuses. Building dams in India, planting trees in Burkina Faso, and rescuing street children in Brazil are images of development...
- Author:Ellwood, WayneSummary:
Fully updated, this new edition of a best-selling No-Nonsense Guide examines the debt trap; the acceleration of neoliberalism and the "free trade" model; competition for energy resources; the links between the "war on...
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Author:Blundell, SallySummary:An in-depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market. Transnational corporations look for the cheapest suppliers, while the fair trade movement insists on a premium for the...
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In this updated edition of the No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy, Richard Swift explores how democracy has been constricted and deformed by economic power-brokers and a self-serving political class from Birmingham to Bangalore. The book...
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Author:Perkins, JohnSummary:Economic hit men (EHMs) “are highly paid professionals who cheat countries out of trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder.” John Perkins wrote those...
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Author:Soto, Hernando deSummary:"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than...
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Author:Lucht, Bernie, Galbraith, John Kenneth, Goodman, Paul, Jacobs, Jane, Kierans, Eric W., King, Martin Luther, Jr.Summary:The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for...
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Author:Sachs, Jeffrey D.Summary: -
Author:Barker, Jonathan, Cwikowski, Anne-Marie, Gombay, Christie, Isbester, Katherine, Shettima, Kole, Sundar, AparnaSummary:Using colourful and detailed case material, Street-Level Democracy introduces a new method of researching everyday politics. It is a wide-ranging book that traces the conflicts between global power and local action. People in farming...
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Author:Summary:This textbook deals with central political themes and issues in the developing world, including globalization, inequality, identity, religion, the military, democracy, the environment and policy development.
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Notable scholars Buruma and Margalit discuss the development of anti-Western sentiments and their perpetuation into contemporary times, especially by Islamic countries. Examines some aspects of fascism, socialism, globalization, and...
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Author:Black, MaggieSummary:The idea of reducing poverty and inequality and improving health, education, and job opportunities around the world is beyond criticism. Yet, the reality of development can often be confusion, contradiction, deceit, and corruption. This...
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Author:Willis, Raelynn, Gowey, BrandieSummary:Each photograph in Hungry Hearted Kids captures the story behind a child’s eyes. It ignites a desire to listen to the unheard passions, joys and pain of innocent hearts. It aids us all to connect to a larger world view and motivates a...
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Author:Fisette, Jacques, Raffinot, MarcSummary:La gouvernance représente l'une des plus importantes innovations conceptuelles des quinze dernières années dans le discours de l'aide au développement. A-t-elle pour autant transformé les pratiques? A-t-elle conduit à une...
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Author:Apale, Alisha, Stam, ValerieSummary:Young Canadians are increasingly active and engaged in global issues. Many are eagerly poised to contribute--in smaller and even larger ways--to international development and the Canadian national politics that, for better or worse,...
- Author:Buffett, Howard W., Buffett, Howard G.Summary:
In 2006, Howard G. Buffett set out to help the most vulnerable people on Earth--nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security. He gave himself a deadline: forty years to put more than $3 billion to work on this challenge....
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Author:Tate, NikkiSummary:Kids all over the world help collect seeds, weed gardens, milk goats and herd ducks. From a balcony garden with pots of lettuce to a farm with hundreds of cows, kids can pitch in to bring the best and freshest products to their families...
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