Foundations for Local Governance
Various forms of decentralization are recently pursued in the world, including developing countries. However, there has not ...
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Fragile Families and the Marriage Agenda
Some social sciences contend that marriage is the solution to many of the problems associated with single-parent families. ...
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Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
This volume brings together advanced thinking on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, including the theoretical background, ...
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Global Energy Supply and Emissions
offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy. It starts by describing ...
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Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict
Is ‘development’ passé? Is it merely a by-product or a ‘trickle down’ effect of economic growth, spurred by globalisation? ...
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Globalization from the Bottom Up
This book argues that concentration of wealth is not sustainable. It offers an alternative model, a philosophy of "social ...
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Handbook of Resilience in Children
Even the most significant technological and medical advances of the 21st century have been tempered by the increasing risk ...
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Handbook of the Sociology of Gender
In this seminal work, the contributors focus on sociological theories and research concerning gender, which are discussed ...
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Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?
In this book, a group of global experts gathered by the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean ...
اقرأ المزيدImpact of Information Society Research in the Global South
This book addresses two aspects— Impact of research: How is the research on ICTs in the Global South playing a role in ...
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Indigenous Life Projects and Extractivism
Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present volume discusses how current turbulences ...
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Internal Migration, Urbanization and Poverty in Asia: Dynamics and Interrelationships
The chapters within this volume examine those complexities using a range of traditional and nontraditional measures—such ...
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Lake Victoria
Recently, there has been, and continues to be, a tremendous interest on Lake Victoria and its environs, both locally and ...
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Learning through Community : Exploring Participatory Practices
This book is a collection of case studies that explore the learning that people do through community engagement. Developed ...
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Liberal Democracy Prosperity through Freedom
This book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people ...
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Lone Parenthood in the Life Course
This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthood at the beginning of the XXI century from a life course perspective. ...
اقرأ المزيدMarginality : Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology
In this volume economists, ecology experts, geographers, agronomists, sociologist, and business experts come together to ...
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Marine Resource Conservation and Poverty Reduction Strategies in Tanzania
Despite the social, nutritional, economical and environmental importance of Tanzanian coastal areas, yet they are vulnerable ...
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Modeling Income Distributions and Lorenz Curves
The parameterization of income distributions and Lorenz Curves is a useful approach for representing how income is distributed ...
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Multidimensional Poverty Measurement
Conceptualization and measurement of poverty have traditionally relied on purely economic approaches, with income or consumption ...
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