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Reluctant Bedfellows
This book outlines key facets of the authors' five year development project on sex tourism and prostitution in the Philippines, and is a powerful reflection on the raging debates …
Human Rights and Development
In Human Rights and Development, award-winning author Peter Uvin extends the examination of development aid and human rights violations that he presented in his book on the Rwandan …
Lab, the Temple, and the Market
Current international development discourse is starting to look at how religion affects globalization, peacebuilding and the environment. But how do the roles, approaches and world …
Globalization on Trial
This text challenges the conventional view that equates globalization with the expansion of the capitalist economic system. With a historical and holistic brush, the author …
Beyond Globalization
A provocative look at economic globalization. Hazel Henderson takes on issues such as fast-flowing finance in cyberspace and the bankruptcy of conventional economics. She discusses …
Zones of Peace
This title looks at the ways people have used ""sanctuary"" throughout history and in present-day conflicts to avoid or challenge violence. Authors have practical experience in …
Leadership for Development
Although the extraordinary leadership that stimulated European recovery efforts in the late 1940s and early 1950s is now widely celebrated as a model for international development …
Commercialization of Microfinance
Microfinance has been promoted as having the potential to be a self-sustainable solution to poverty, and consequently has attracted growing interest among international development …
Going Global
This work studies the largest of the Northern-based international relief and development NGOs. It examines how organizations are responding to the transformative changes …
Creating a Better World
The term 'global civil society' has become a catchphrase of our times. But efforts to define and interpret what global civil society actually is have led to ambiguity and dispute. …
For the Love of God
Local faith-based NGOs (FBOs) are a major force in international development. Almost all religious traditions call followers to charity and non-profits are often the perfect …
Schools in the Forest
Beginning in the 1960s, the Brazilian government aggressively developed the Amazon, opening the rainforests up to ranchers and loggers who began clear-cutting at a rapid pace. The …