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A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty

This book is open access under a CCBY license. This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It ...

Ages, Generations and the Social Contract

Our societies are ageing. The Family is changing. Labour force behaviour is evolving. How is the organisation of family and ...

Agricultural Biodiversity and Biotechnology in Economic Development

The topics addressed in this book are of vital importance to the survival of humankind. Agricultural biodiversity, encompassing ...

Amartya Sens Capability Approach

Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen’s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice ...

Chasing the Chinese Dream Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

Climate Change and Community Resilience : Insights from South Asia

This book documents myriads of ways community-based climate change adaptation and resilience programs are being implemented ...

Development Policies and Policy Processes in Africa

The book examines the methodological challenges in analyzing the effectiveness of development policies. It presents a selection ...

Disability, Health and Human Development

This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, ...

Energy Demand Challenges in Europe

This book examines the role of citizens in sustainable energy transitions across Europe. It explores energy problem framing, ...

Energy Poverty

This open access book aims to consolidate and advance debates on European and global energy poverty by exploring the political ...

Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity : The Bright, the Dark, and the in Between / Dean A. Shepherd, Vinit Parida, Joakim Wincent

Extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who ...

Fiscal Equalization : Challenges in the Design of Intergovernmental Transfers

These original essays highlight the state of knowledge in intergovernmental transfer design. They represent creative new ...

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. ...

Fuzzy Set Approach to Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

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

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 ...

Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict

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

Globalization from the Bottom Up

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

Handbook of the Sociology of Gender

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

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 ...

Impact 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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