The Women, Gender and Development Reader

Zed Books

Edited by Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan, Nan Wiegersma and Laurie Nisonoff

July 2011

The Women, Gender and Development Reader II is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the

Human Rights, 2nd Edition

Polity Press

Michael Freeman (University of Essex)

March 2011

Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. It invites students to think conceptually about one of the most important and influential political concepts of our time. In this

Child Migration in Africa

Zed Books

Iman Hashim and Dorte Thorsen

Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances

Life within Limits: Wellbeing in a World of Want

Duke University Press

Ethnographic exploration of the sense that wellbeing remains elusive, transitory and unevenly distributed for the rich as well as the poor in all societies; informed by return to a Sierra Leone village that Jackson studied in late 60s and late 70s.

Multinational Corporations and Local Firms in Emerging Economies

EADI

In order for foreign direct investment to have deep and lasting positive effects on host countries, it is essential that multinational corporations have close direct and indirect interaction with local firms. A valuable addition to the emerging literature on multinational-local

Global Development Finance 2010: External Debt of Developing Countries

World Bank

In previous years this volume was published as Global Development Finance: Volume 2. This new edition will be published as a single volume, and Volume 1 will no longer be published.

Global Development Finance (GDF)is available in print or electronically.

Citizenship and Social Movements Perspectives from the Global South

Insitute of Development Studies

Edited by Lisa Thompson and Chris Tapscott

Past debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on Anglo-America and Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective actions of citizens in the Global South. This book seeks to partially

World Crisis Effects on Social Security in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons and Policies

Institute for the Study of the Americas

By Carmelo Mesa-Lago

Written by the top scholar on social security in Latin America and the Caribbean, this book assesses the effects of the world financial and economic crisis on social security and welfare in the region. Drawing on the

Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics

EarthScan Books

Edited by Ian Scoones

Avian Influenza lays out the lessons from the international avian influenza response and suggests a way forward based on ‘One World, One Health’ principles. The book is based on an analysis of the politics of policy

The Aid Triangle: Recognizing the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and Identity

London: Zed

by M. MacLachlan, S.C. Carr & E. McAuliffe (2010)

This critically acclaimed book focuses on the human dynamics of international aid. The aid system incorporates power relationships and thereby dominance. Dominance can be a cause and a consequence of injustice