Rural Development & Poverty Alleviation in India

This engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia's third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life...

In a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of p...

Based on over one hundred and thirty interviews with government officials, revolutionary activists, war veterans, and development experts, this is ...

Reducere. Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America's general level of prosperity along with a fairly w...

Based on over one hundred and thirty interviews with government officials, revolutionary activists, war veterans, and development experts, this is ...

This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their sha...

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and wides...

There are many initiatives using mobiles, tablets and other devices that have promise to help farmers and improve livelihoods in the developing wor...

Poverty in Rural America: The Story of Yates County Home and Farm from 1830 to 1950 describes the development of poorhouses in New York State, prov...

Publisher: Red Sea Press, U.S.Author(s): Mammo MuchieNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 216 x 18Cover type: Paperback / so...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Idil IresNumber of pages: 342Collection: Political SciencePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 25Co...

In Peace and Rural Development in Colombia: The Window for Distributive Change in Negotiated Transitions, Andres Garcia Trujillo investigates wheth...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Rajesh (Assistant Professor, Science Technology and International Affairs School of Foreign Servic...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey's personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what...

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socia...

The Indian case explores investment in developing the human capital of women livestock farmers as certified master trainers and community service p...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book explores and interrogates the food-water-energy nexus, arguably the most crucial factor in sustaining India's economic development.Publis...

Publisher: Practical Action PublishingAuthor(s): Ian (Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)) ScoonesNumber of pages: 168Collectio...

This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives to broaden understandings of poverty. It contains empirical and conceptual chapters on a r...

The most comprehensive, interdisciplinary and student-focused introduction to international development available.Publisher: Oxford University Pres...

Introduces India's environment laws to readers interested in law, contemporary politics, development studies, sociology, anthropology, political ec...

The case study in Indonesia shows that training and coaching provided increased knowledge of and practical skills for cocoa farming, including tech...

Drawing on a multi-method study, from the late-nineteenth century to the present, of the stark variations in educational and health outcomes within...

This book critically examines different forms of urban-rural links for sustainable development in different countries. As intertwined processes of ...

The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap ...

A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too...

DescriptionWhy do some states provide infrastructure and social services to their citizens, and others do not? In Development in Multiple Dimension...

This book examines general Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) roles and comparative advantages in the broad fight to end global poverty, as well ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionThrough an ethnographic study of an internationally renowned NGO situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and pr...

Rural Women's Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy examines the intimate lives of women in the developing world, their sexuality, and vie...

An incisive critique of how the field of international poverty studies, cultivated by global development agendas, has served to legitimate an incre...

This book argues that an end to poverty can only be achieved by prioritising human dignity. Compelling and engaging, with a wide range of recommend...

Reducere. When first-generation Muslim-American Fatema Z. Sumar was given the chance to serve and lead across the US government, she seized it. Traveling mor...

Publisher: Elsevier Science & TechnologyAuthor(s): Shyambhavee (Senior Resident Physician, Department of Community Medicine, Atal Bihari Vajpayee I...

DescriptionThe introduction of co-operative societies into the Irish countryside during the late nineteenth century transformed rural society and c...

The agricultural privatization strategy adopted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was based on the premise that family farms are the most effective ...