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Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict - A Critical 'Development' Reader (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): Max Spoor Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict - A Critical 'Development' Reader (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
Max Spoor
R4,562 Discovery Miles 45 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This state-of-the-art critical 'development' reader examines the inter-relationships between globalisation, poverty and conflict. It complements current debates in the field of development studies and, in an era in which development fatigue seems to have become more profound than ever before, it brings the importance of development once again to the forefront.
The contributions represent current thinking on (and practice of) development policy, poverty reduction, the need for multi-level democratic institutions, and the containing and prevention of conflicts.

Dragons with Clay Feet? - Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam (Hardcover): Max Spoor,... Dragons with Clay Feet? - Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam (Hardcover)
Max Spoor, Nico Heerink, Futian Qu; Contributions by Connie Chan-Kang, Cheng Zhigang, …
R3,325 Discovery Miles 33 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies-China and Vietnam. The contributions to this volume focus on the regional and sectoral impact of transformational policies, farm household decision making under a changing economic and institutional environment, and potential trade-offs between agricultural growth and sustainable land management in the two countries. The analysis of household responses to economic policies and changing institution, and their implications for agricultural production and sustainable resource use in East-Asian transition economies, is a relatively new research field. This collection by a group of Chinese, Vietnamese, and international researchers reflect the rapid progress that is being made in this important research field.

Dragons with Clay Feet? - Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam (Paperback): Max Spoor,... Dragons with Clay Feet? - Transition, Sustainable Land Use, and Rural Environment in China and Vietnam (Paperback)
Max Spoor, Nico Heerink, Futian Qu; Contributions by Connie Chan-Kang, Cheng Zhigang, …
R1,596 Discovery Miles 15 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies-China and Vietnam. The contributions to this volume focus on the regional and sectoral impact of transformational policies, farm household decision making under a changing economic and institutional environment, and potential trade-offs between agricultural growth and sustainable land management in the two countries. The analysis of household responses to economic policies and changing institution, and their implications for agricultural production and sustainable resource use in East-Asian transition economies, is a relatively new research field. This collection by a group of Chinese, Vietnamese, and international researchers reflect the rapid progress that is being made in this important research field.

Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development - Conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia (Paperback):... Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development - Conflict and cooperation in Central Eurasia (Paperback)
Murat Arsel, Max Spoor
R1,685 Discovery Miles 16 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This co-edited volume provides a unified scholarly treatment of intensifying debates on the relationship between water scarcity and environmental security in Central Eurasia. Using discussions of sustainable rural development as its conceptual backdrop, the chapters in this volume combine solid empirical investigation with critical analysis of key concepts such as 'scarcity', 'expert knowledge', and 'efficiency'. The central theme emerging from the contributions emphasizes the need to reevaluate accepted wisdom in resource studies that considers distributional conflicts over water usage as inherently zero-sum outcomes in which one player's gains inevitably correspond to another player's losses. Instead, the empirical and critical analyses in this book demonstrate that effective management of water resources can be re-conceptualized as the basis for regional cooperation and sustainable rural development.

Transition, Institutions and the Rural Sector (Hardcover, New): Max Spoor Transition, Institutions and the Rural Sector (Hardcover, New)
Max Spoor; Contributions by Dirk J. Bezemer, Hannah Chaplin, Malcolm D. Childress, Sophia Davidova, …
R2,529 Discovery Miles 25 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Transitions, Institutions and the Rural Sector is a series of essays examining and analyzing the rural transformations in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The authors included in this volume employ a variety of interesting and insightful approaches to the topic, including synthetic regional analysis, analytic comparative studies, and unique case studies drawn from fieldwork. The first part of the book presents comparative studies of agrarian reform during the past decade of transition, while the second contains detailed studies of individual countries. Part of the Rural Economies in Transition series, Transitions, Institutions and the Rural Sector explores the complexities of rural transformations and the often unanticipated challenges faced by both the public and private sector in developing countries. Editor Max Spoor has assembled a set of thoroughly researched and persuasively argued pieces that fill a major gap in the scholarship on transition economies

The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies - Land, Peasants and Rural Poverty in Transition (Hardcover,... The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies - Land, Peasants and Rural Poverty in Transition (Hardcover, New)
Max Spoor
R4,779 Discovery Miles 47 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rural poverty is a phenomenon that is widespread yet often ignored by policy makers and researchers. This edited volume looks critically at rural poverty in Central Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, China and Vietnam in relation to land reform, farm restructuring and the development of rural markets and in the context of a large gap between rural and urban incomes and deteriorating rural social services and infrastructure. Although in most countries rural poverty has been decreasing in the past few years, economic growth in rural areas is slow, and rural incomes are not 'catching up' with the rapid overall growth rates of these transition economies. In general, the livelihoods of rural dwellers remain relatively poor. Next to comparative studies, the chapters in this book explore various aspects of agrarian reform, and analyze the interlocking or interlinking (land, input and output) markets that are crucial for rural development that have often remained weakly developed in transition economies, including case studies from Russia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Vietnam and China and a wealth of detailed analysis. These chapters reflect the striking differences between transition countries in their processes of rural reform and development of rural poverty. These differences are generally dependent on the initial conditions at the eve of transition, the policies implemented, the sequencing of reforms, and the importance that was given to the sector in the overall development strategy, such as can be seen if the Asian transition economies (ATEs) are compared with many of those in Eastern Europe.

Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict - A Critical 'Development' Reader (Paperback, 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed.... Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict - A Critical 'Development' Reader (Paperback, 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2004)
Max Spoor
R4,375 Discovery Miles 43 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Is development passe? Is it merely a by-product or a trickle down effect of economic growth, spurred by globalisation? Will poverty simply diminish with increased global markets? This state-of-the-art critical development reader deals with these and related questions. Globalisation, Poverty and Conflict examines the inter-relationships between globalisation, poverty and conflict. It complements current debates in the field of development studies and, in an era in which development fatigue seems to have become more profound than ever before, it brings the importance of development once again to the forefront. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 is a concrete target which many governments have agreed to work towards.Whether these goals can be realised is another issue. Nonetheless, the Millennium Development Goals have brought more focused attention to development in the past few years and renewed debate about the relationships between the process of globalisation and widespread poverty and the emergence of violent conflicts.

The authors in this edited volume discuss these inter-related and highly controversial topical elements of development in a number of chapters organised around three sets of issues: (1) globalisation, inequality and poverty; (2) governance, civil society and poverty; and (3) resource degradation, institutions and conflict. The contributions represent current thinking on (and practice of) development policy, poverty reduction, the need for multi-level democratic institutions, and the containing and prevention of conflicts. The authors confront the predominant mainstream ideas on development and propose alternatives.

The chapters, written by a select group of scholars and development practitioners, will be of direct interest to those involved in this field of social sciences and in development practice, but they are composed in such a way as to remain accessible for the generally interested reader. "

Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development - Conflict and Cooperation in Central Eurasia (Hardcover):... Water, Environmental Security and Sustainable Rural Development - Conflict and Cooperation in Central Eurasia (Hardcover)
Murat Arsel, Max Spoor
R4,640 Discovery Miles 46 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This co-edited volume provides a unified scholarly treatment of intensifying debates on the relationship between water scarcity and environmental security in Central Eurasia. Using discussions of sustainable rural development as its conceptual backdrop, the chapters in this volume combine solid empirical investigation with critical analysis of key concepts such as 'scarcity', 'expert knowledge', and 'efficiency'. The central theme emerging from the contributions emphasizes the need to reevaluate accepted wisdom in resource studies that considers distributional conflicts over water usage as inherently zero-sum outcomes in which one player's gains inevitably correspond to another player's losses. Instead, the empirical and critical analyses in this book demonstrate that effective management of water resources can be re-conceptualized as the basis for regional cooperation and sustainable rural development.

The State and Domestic Agricultural Markets in Nicaragua - From Interventionism to Neo-Liberalism (Paperback, 1st ed. 1995):... The State and Domestic Agricultural Markets in Nicaragua - From Interventionism to Neo-Liberalism (Paperback, 1st ed. 1995)
Max Spoor
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book examines in depth the problematic effects of state intervention in agricultural markets of developing countries against the background of the current transition of interventionism to neo-liberalism. The fascinating case of Nicaragua is explored, focusing on the 1979-1990 interventionist period under Sandinista rule, followed by an analysis of the post-1990 laissez-faire UNO-period. The limits of state intervention are shown by analysing in detail the unintended effects of certain policies such as those on land reform, price, credit and technology. Finally, the book draws comparisons between the Nicaraguan case (in which two transitions took place in a relatively short time-span) and the recent dramatic transformations of Eastern Europe. It provides arguments for a different role for the state in this process, which is directed to market development, rather than the current withdrawal.

The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies - Land, Peasants and Rural Poverty in Transition... The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies - Land, Peasants and Rural Poverty in Transition (Paperback)
Max Spoor
R1,803 Discovery Miles 18 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rural poverty is a phenomenon that is widespread yet often ignored by policy makers and researchers. This edited volume looks critically at rural poverty in Central Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, China and Vietnam in relation to land reform, farm restructuring and the development of rural markets and in the context of a large gap between rural and urban incomes and deteriorating rural social services and infrastructure. Although in most countries rural poverty has been decreasing in the past few years, economic growth in rural areas is slow, and rural incomes are not 'catching up' with the rapid overall growth rates of these transition economies. In general, the livelihoods of rural dwellers remain relatively poor. Next to comparative studies, the chapters in this book explore various aspects of agrarian reform, and analyze the interlocking or interlinking (land, input and output) markets that are crucial for rural development that have often remained weakly developed in transition economies, including case studies from Russia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Vietnam and China and a wealth of detailed analysis. These chapters reflect the striking differences between transition countries in their processes of rural reform and development of rural poverty. These differences are generally dependent on the initial conditions at the eve of transition, the policies implemented, the sequencing of reforms, and the importance that was given to the sector in the overall development strategy, such as can be seen if the Asian transition economies (ATEs) are compared with many of those in Eastern Europe.

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