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publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid. It starts out by describing the rise of national populism, the political landscape and the reasons for rejection of the political establishment, both under Trump and internat...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book is about the right to basic education and its impact on development in Africa. It focuses on the elusive subject of litigating the right to education by examining jurisprudence from select African countries and India. The project further an...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Is 'development' the answer for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for perpetuating inequality? Moving beyond an increasingly entrenched debate about the role of NGOs, this book reveals the practices and social relations through whi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:The aims of and motives for development cooperation have changed significantly in recent times. Besides pursuing short- and longer-term objectives in their own economic, foreign policy and other interests, donors usually have a recognisable and genui...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This edited volume discusses the development theory advanced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in the 1940s, and its transformations through the second half of the twentieth century. In this time frame, the author...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:The author investigates the agenda for transformation in contemporary African development studies: policy studies, strategic studies, international relations and economic diplomacy. With a focus on the capacity dimension, he proposes critical policy ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This edited volume focuses on the attempts of various Caribbean countries to diversify their economies and societies. It is done in the context of political and economic difficulties that these countries have faced since the 2007-2008 economic crash ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This book looks at developmental pathways to poverty reduction that emphasize employment-centred structural change, social policies that both protect citizens and contribute to economic development, and types of politics that support economic transfo...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:This book examines the development of Welsh devolution in the context of great economic and political uncertainty. Drawing on research carried out over more than a decade, it explores whether Welsh devolution has developed the capacity to resist inte...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:​Die Redaktion ist bislang eine vernachlässigte Institution der Medienethik. Der Band begründet, warum sich dies im digitalen Zeitalter ändert: Weil die journalistische Marke als verlässlicher Informationsgarant in der Flut der digitalen Welt sichtba...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Paul-Hermann Gruner untersucht drei prominente, erfolgreiche Frauenzeitschriften (Brigitte, Für Sie, Freundin) auf die in ihnen vermittelten Konzepte von Weiblichkeit vor dem Hintergrund von fünf Jahrzehnten erfolgreicher Existenzgeschichte der „Neue...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Diese Forschungsstudie thematisiert die vielfältigen Wechselwirkungen zwischen der UniBw München mit dem Standort in Neubiberg und der sie umgebenden Region. Neben konjunkturellen Impulsen, die sich aus den Investitions- und Sachausgaben der UniBw so...