Entwicklungspolitik

Private Environmental Regimes in Developing Countries

R. Espach

This book assesses the recent growth and future prospects of private transnational environmental certification and standards regimes, examining in detail to what degree, and under what circumstanc...

Effizientes Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement

Stefan Wilkens

Der Autor entwickelt ein zweistufiges Verfahren, das sowohl konkrete empirische Erkenntnisse als auch eine allgemeingültige Methode zur Effizienzmessung des strategischen Umwelt- und Sozialmanage...

Sanierungsfall Afrika. 40 Jahre Entwicklungshilfe - Bilanz und Perspektiven

Marcel Rank

Viele Länder Afrikas sind heute, nach über 40 Jahren Entwicklungshilfe, Sanierungsfälle. Seit dem Beginn der Unabhängigkeitsbewegung im Jahr 1960 ist Entwicklungshilfe im Wert von rund 18 Mil...

After 2015: International Development Policy at a Crossroads

A. Sumner / M. Tiwari

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have played a major role in focusing policy since their original incarnation in the mid to late 1990s but what happens when we no longer have the MDGs - wh...

Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

Udaya Wagle

<P>Multidimensional approaches have increasingly been used to understand poverty, but have yet to be fully operationalized. This methodical and important book uses factor analysis and struct...

Sustainable Development and the Limitation of Growth

Victor I. Danilov-Danil'yan / K. S. Losev / Igor E. Reyf

<P>2007 marked the 20th anniversary of the G.H.Brundtland Commission report that broke new ground by addressing the issue of sustainable development as a means of avoiding an ecological cata...

Lokale Sozialpolitik in Bremen und Hannover

Thomas Schwarzer / Rolf Prigge

Lokale Sozialpolitik in GroßstädtenDie Rückkehr der sozialen Unsicherheit zeigt sich besonders in den Großstädten. Die Umbrüche der Arbeits-märkte und Wirtschaftsstrukturen, die Privatisier...

Gender Myths and Feminist Fables

This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development.Questions why the insights from years of femini...

Lokale Sozialpolitik in Bremen und Hannover

Rolf Prigge / Thomas Schwarzer

Lokale Sozialpolitik in GroßstädtenDie Rückkehr der sozialen Unsicherheit zeigt sich besonders in den Großstädten. Die Umbrüche der Arbeits-märkte und Wirtschaftsstrukturen, die Privatisier...

Aid for Trade: Global and Regional Perspectives

<P>Aid for Trade (AfT) has become a major item on the international trade and development discourse. This is to a large extent in response to concerns expressed by developing countries and e...

Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation

<P>Sponsored by the American Real Estate Society (ARES), Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation addresses a wide variety of timely issues relating to property ownership, rights, and us...

Transnational Corporations and Development Policy

This volume offers a wide-reaching exploration of foreign direct investment and developmental impacts through case studies from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Central Europe, also examining th...

Measuring Globalisation

Axel Dreher / Pim Martens / Noel Gaston

<P>Globalisation is a timely and controversial topic. Against the chorus of globalisation’s proponents and detractors, the authors propose an approach for measuring globalisation and its c...

Globalization from the Bottom Up

A. Coskun Samli

<P>Takes a proactive approach to addressing big issues of world poverty, economic development, and the impact of globalization — with recommendations for business leaders, policymakers, an...

Make Poverty History

Nicolas Sireau

An analysis of the production and consumption of the communications of Make Poverty History , a high profile episode of social movement protest in the UK. The book follows the campaign throughout ...

Liberalization and Regulation of the Telecommunications Sector in Transition Countries

Ekaterina Markova

<P>Telecommunications are increasingly recognized as a key component in the infrastructure of economic development. For many years, there were state-owned monopolies in the telecommunication...

Achievement Evaluation of IFI Assistance Loans to China (1981-2002)

Guangyu Hu / Angang Hu

<P>IFI loans to China were an important beginning to China’s opening to the outside world. This book is the first comprehensive study done in China to evaluate the overall performance and ...

Vision 2050

Hiroshi Komiyama / Steven Kraines

<P>Hiroshi Komiyama's "Vision 2050" is a plan for paving a road to global sustainability. It lays out a path to a sustainable future for humanity that could realistically be achi...

Industrial Ecology

Arnim von Gleich / Stefan Gößling-Reisemann

Agencies and policies

Christoph Seidler

Christoph Seidler"s book discusses how bilateral donors perform in fighting corruption. In order to do so, a rationalist perspective is taken. The author argues that donors perform well in fig...