UNDP's Engagement with the Private Sector, 1994-2011

UNDP's Engagement with the Private Sector, 1994-2011

Author: Z. Razeq

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-14

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1137449209

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An engaging explanation and unique analysis of the increased involvement of the private sector in one of the world's most influential development organizations, the United Nations Development Programme.


Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies

Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies

Author: Colin C. Williams

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-22

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 1317535154

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The Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies is a landmark volume that offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of entrepreneurship in developing countries. Addressing the multi-faceted nature of entrepreneurship, chapters explore a vast range of subject areas including education, economic policy, gender and the prevalence and nature of informal sector entrepreneurship. In order to understand the process of new venture creation in developing economies, what it means to be engaged in entrepreneurship in a developing world context must be addressed. This handbook does so by exploring the difficulties, risks and rewards associated with being an entrepreneur, and evaluates the impacts of the environment, relationships, performance and policy dynamics on small and entrepreneurial firms in developing economies. The handbook brings together a unique collection of over forty international researchers who are all actively engaged in studying entrepreneurship in a developing world context. The chapters offer concise but detailed perspectives and explanations on key aspects of the subject across a diverse array of developing economies, spanning Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. In doing so, the chapters highlight the heterogeneity of entrepreneurship in developed economies, and contribute to the on-going policy discourses for managing and promoting entrepreneurial growth in the developing world. The book will be of great interest to scholars, students and policymakers in the areas of development economics, business and management, public policy and development studies.


Deconstructing Human Development

Deconstructing Human Development

Author: Juan Telleria

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-09

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1000300153

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This book provides a critical deconstruction of the human development framework promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990. Taking the Human Development Reports of the UNDP as its starting point for reflection, this book investigates the construction of this framework as well as its political function since the end of the Cold War. The book argues that the UNDP’s discourse on development relies on essentialist philosophical, cultural, and political assumptions dating back to the 19th century and concludes that these assumptions – also present in the MDGs and SDGs – impede a full grasp of the complex and multi-layered global problems of the current world. Whilst development critiques traditionally relied on liberal, Marxist or Foucauldian theoretical frameworks and focused on epistemological or political economy issues, this book draws on the post-foundational and post-structuralist work of Ernesto Laclau and Jacques Derrida and proposes an ontological and relational reading of development discourses that both complements and further develops the insights of previous critiques. This book is key reading for advanced students and researchers of Critical Development Studies, Political Science, the UN, and Sustainable Development.


Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan

Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan

Author: M. Chaiklin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1137363339

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The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.


Islamic Finance Alternatives for Emerging Economies

Islamic Finance Alternatives for Emerging Economies

Author: M. Ustaoglu

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-26

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 1137413301

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Turkey could be considered the most important and leading Islamic country that has implemented the Western economic model successfully mostly because of the modernization efforts since late Ottoman period. As a result of the secularization efforts in the field of economy in early republican era, Muslim people in the country had to deal with non-Islamic practices that contradict with their religious beliefs. Islamic Finance Alternatives for Emerging Economies analyzes the emergence of the Islamic financial institutions in Turkey, by taking into account their history, their operational model, and their legal regulations in the financial field, to discuss the future of Islamic finance. The contributors also consider the ability of Islamic financial institutions and tools to respond to the financial needs of Muslims.


Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones

Mobile Media Making in an Age of Smartphones

Author: M. Berry

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-16

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1137469811

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With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share the everyday is changing. This collection reflects on emergent creative practices and digital ethnographies of new socialities associated with smartphone cameras in everyday life.


Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English

Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English

Author: L. Lau

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-16

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1137401567

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At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in English, particularly social realism fiction.


Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy

Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy

Author: V. Kostakis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 1137406895

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This book builds on the idea that peer-to-peer infrastructures are gradually becoming the general conditions of work, economy, and society. Using a four-scenario approach, the authors seek to simplify possible outcomes and to explore relevant trajectories of the current techno-economic paradigm within and beyond capitalism.


The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market

The Changing Nature of the Graduate Labour Market

Author: G. Tholen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-09-23

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 1137479078

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The assumptions made in the media regarding graduate skills and occupations are no longer valid within the changing educational context. This book traces seven key trends that shape the graduate labour market and reveals that their effects contradict the conceptualisation of the graduate labour market which dominates media and policy discourses.


Debating Modern Masculinities

Debating Modern Masculinities

Author: S. Roberts

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-03

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1137394846

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Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The contributors deconstruct and reject such crisis talk, with its chapters drawing on original research to present a more nuanced reality, whilst also developing a critical dialogue with one another.