Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
Decentralization, Local Governance, and Social Wellbeing in India
Do Local Governments Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Over the past three decades, decentralization has been seen as the means for allowing local governments to become more accountable, and for encouraging the deepening of democracy and the building of village communities. By drawing on original village-level case studies of six villages in three different...
by Dan Banik
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This book analyzes India’s impressive efforts in responding to sensational and easily visible disasters in contrast to the ‘silent emergency’ of drought-induced under nutrition and starvation deaths. Building on Amartya Sen’s famous claim that no famine has ever occurred in a democratic country,...
Displacement and Resettlement in India
The Human Cost of Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In the past ten years or so, displacement by development projects has gone on almost untamed under the globalization pressures to meet the demand for land from local and increasingly foreign investors. Focusing on India, this book looks at the complex issue of resettling people who are displaced for...
The Comparative Political Economy of Development
Africa and South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
This book illustrates the enduring relevance and vitality of the comparative political economy of development approach promoted among others by a group of social scientists in Oxford in the 1980s and 1990s. Contributors demonstrate the viability of this approach as researchers and academics become...
Chinese Student Migration and Selective Citizenship
Mobility, Community and Identity Between China and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Since China began its open-door and reform policies in 1978, more than three million Chinese students have migrated to study abroad, and the United States has been their top destination. The recent surge of students following this pattern, along with the rising tide of Chinese middle- and upper-classes'...
China's Unruly Journalists
How Committed Professionals are Changing the People’s Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Despite operating in one of the most tightly controlled media environments in the world, Chinese journalists sometimes take extraordinary risks, braving the perils of job loss or imprisonment to report sensitive stories. As a result, a group of journalists stands at the forefront of some of China’s...
Japan's Foreign Aid to Africa
Angola and Mozambique within the TICAD Process
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was established in 1993 with the intention of creating opportunities for trade and investment on both sides and the promotion of sustainable development. In 2003, the conference translated Japanese aid policy to Africa into three key...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The 1997–8 Asian financial crisis exposed weaknesses in the region’s national financial systems, but since then East Asia has become the world’s most dynamic economic region. Domestic financial systems have developed, cross-border financial flows within the region are growing apace as demand...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
In the same way that no economy starts out with the best set of economic policies, no economy starts out with the best institutions to support the policy-making process. Instead, they inherit institutions that reflect their own unique culture and history. The task of structural reform has to be addressed,...
East Asian Transformation
On the Political Economy of Dynamism, Governance and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic and political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the global political economy....
Reward for High Public Office
Asian and Pacific Rim States
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
The choices made by governments about how to reward their top employees reveal a great deal about their values and their assumptions about governing. This book examines rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems, a particularly rich set of cases for exploring the causes and consequences...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The Political Economy of Japanese Globalisation reveals the key dimensions of Japanese globalisation today by analysing both its inward and outward manifestations. This is the first book to examine fully the issue of globalisation in relation to Japan. Organised in three parts, The Political Economy...
Institutional Reform in Central Asia
Politico-Economic Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the reforms...
The Management of Public Services in Central Asia
Institutional Transformation in Kyrgyzstan
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The ending of the Soviet Union in 1991 had a major political and economic impact on Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan was one of the most severely affected countries, suffering a deeper recession than the other republics. During the first five or six years Kyrgyzstan followed the advice of the International...