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Social Sciences and Humanities. Development Studies --- Development Economics.

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"International experts evaluate new policy directions in economic development and poverty reduction, building on the ideas of a pioneer in the new discipline of Development Studies, Frances Stewart. Combing ideas and evidence on technological change, human development and conflict prevention to address the issue of the persistence of inequality"--

Social stratification --- Social policy --- Social problems --- Economic development. --- Income distribution. --- Poverty. --- Equality. --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Development Studies --- Development Economics --- Development Economics.

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This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current re-discovery of migrants as agents of development nexus into theoretical and historical perspective.

Economic development. --- Economic policy. --- Human geography. --- Political economy. --- Ethnicity. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Development Studies. --- Development Policy. --- Human Geography. --- International Political Economy. --- Ethnicity Studies. --- Migration.

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Following the 2010 earthquake catastrophe, this book examines the economic and political challenges facing Haiti. It presents an overview of the country's economic history, and seeks new prospects for economic growth and development in the future.

Economic policy. --- Development economics. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Urban economics. --- Economic development. --- Political economy. --- Economic Policy. --- Development Economics. --- Regional/Spatial Science. --- Urban Economics. --- Development Studies. --- International Political Economy. --- Haiti --- Economic conditions

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Assuming that women's empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a "Gender Activities Project" within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologist specializing in bureaucratic organizations and gender studies, was hired to monitor the project. Analyzing her own experience as a practicing "development expert," she demonstrates that the professed goal of "women's empowerment" is a pretext for promoting economic organizational goals and the interests of local elites. She shows how a

Literacy programs --- Rural women --- Women in rural development --- Sex discrimination against women --- Discrimination against women --- Subordination of women --- Women, Discrimination against --- Feminism --- Sex discrimination --- Women's rights --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Rural development --- Women volunteers in social service --- Women --- Literacy campaigns --- National literacy campaigns --- National literacy programs --- Reading programs (Literacy) --- Literacy --- Social conditions. --- Government policy --- Anthropology --- Gender --- Studies --- Development studies --- Asia --- Nepal --- World --- Bank --- Economics