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Various forms of decentralization are recently pursued in the world, including developing countries. However, there has not ...

Some social sciences contend that marriage is the solution to many of the problems associated with single-parent families. ...

This volume brings together advanced thinking on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, including the theoretical background, ...

offers an authoritative analysis of the state-of-the art in energy and climate research and policy. It starts by describing ...

Is ‘development’ passé? Is it merely a by-product or a ‘trickle down’ effect of economic growth, spurred by globalisation? ...

This book argues that concentration of wealth is not sustainable. It offers an alternative model, a philosophy of "social ...

Even the most significant technological and medical advances of the 21st century have been tempered by the increasing risk ...

In this seminal work, the contributors focus on sociological theories and research concerning gender, which are discussed ...

In this book, a group of global experts gathered by the Institute for the Integration of Latin America and the Caribbean ...

This book addresses two aspects— Impact of research: How is the research on ICTs in the Global South playing a role in ...

Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present volume discusses how current turbulences ...

The chapters within this volume examine those complexities using a range of traditional and nontraditional measures—such ...

Recently, there has been, and continues to be, a tremendous interest on Lake Victoria and its environs, both locally and ...

This book is a collection of case studies that explore the learning that people do through community engagement. Developed ...

This book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people ...

This volume provides a comprehensive portrait of lone parenthood at the beginning of the XXI century from a life course perspective. ...

In this volume economists, ecology experts, geographers, agronomists, sociologist, and business experts come together to ...

Despite the social, nutritional, economical and environmental importance of Tanzanian coastal areas, yet they are vulnerable ...

The parameterization of income distributions and Lorenz Curves is a useful approach for representing how income is distributed ...

Conceptualization and measurement of poverty have traditionally relied on purely economic approaches, with income or consumption ...

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