Development economics & emerging economies
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Commercial and Inclusive Value Chains
Malcolm Harper, John Belt, Rajeev Roy
In spite of the current wave of globalization, the majority of the world’s people remain poor, excluded from economic development. The aim of this book is to show that disadvantaged smallholders and other poor people can be included in modern integrated value chains, which are profitable for them, f...
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Participation Pays
The processes of international development often mean that beneficiaries have pre-designed programmes imposed upon them. Even the most well-intentioned development projects are often constrained by funding requirements from fulfilling their vision of social justice, with the result that poor, margin...
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Community Well-being in Biocultural Landscapes
Bas Verschuuren, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Wim Hiemstra
There is a growing recognition that living well must go beyond economic and material plenty to encompass social and spiritual well-being. But what do we understand by these wider aspects of well-being? Community Well-being in Biocultural Landscapes provides an introduction to the concept of human w...
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Scaling Up Multiple Use Water Services
Barbara van Koppen, Stef Smits, Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio, John Thomas
Poor people in developing countries need water for many purposes: for drinking, bathing, irrigating vegetable gardens, and watering livestock. However, responsibility for water services is divided between different government agencies, the WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) and irrigation sub-sect...
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Basic Accounting for Community Organizations and Small Groups
The success of any venture, whatever its size, depends on proper financial control. This book offers a step-by-step guide to basic accounting and financial management techniques. It is written in plain language for people who have no previous experience of accounting and book-keeping. Using simple c...
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Performance Management
Performance Management equips staff at financial institutions across emerging economies with frameworks and tools to manage people effectively.To sustain the business of financial institutions, leaders and managers must focus on ‘performance’. This means helping staff to maintain quality, efficiency...
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Performance Management
Performance Management equips staff at financial institutions across emerging economies with frameworks and tools to manage people effectively.To sustain the business of financial institutions, leaders and managers must focus on ‘performance’. This means helping staff to maintain quality, efficiency...
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Savings Groups at the Frontier
Savings Groups reach those rarely served by mainstream financial institutions.Maximum transparency, a profitable structure for saving, access to small loans and an annual lump sum of capital are the hallmarks of the savings group methodology. The outcome: empowered groups, made up mostly of women, w...
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A Handbook of Small-scale Energy Technologies
Gaining access to modern forms of energy remains a crucial but under-recognised aspect of poverty reduction in the Global South. Practical Action has long been recognised as a leading authority on energy access, with decades of development programme and project experience worldwide upon which to bas...
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From Poverty to Power
This new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and food crises. From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditiona...