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This book centers around an intense debate among donors,
policymakers, development practitioners, and academics on the
efficacy of aid in eradicating poverty while promoting human
development. It seeks to fill the gap in present literature by
presenting stories of better spending through implementing
Sustainable Development Goals and addressing Agenda 2030 via
indigenization of global development goals with initiatives at
local and national levels. The book adopts an innovative approach
to dealing with aid effectiveness by highlighting the relevance of
better spending, rather than excessive spending. It does so with
real-life examples of interventions made in the Global South to
realize the vision of "thinking globally and acting locally". These
case studies speak to the significance of communities' role in
shouldering responsibility for planning, financing, operating, and
maintaining local developmental initiatives. The examples also
demonstrate how aid serves its purpose when used as an investment
in communities and enterprising individuals, in order to realize
the strategic impact of giving and build a local "receiving
mechanism" for indigenizing and achieving global development goals.
The book references cases of better spending by governments,
philanthropists, and civil society organizations (CSOs) from across
Asia, Africa, and Latin America on a range of issues and will,
thus, be of interest to development practitioners, policymakers,
donors, philanthropists, civil society organizations, and academics
and students of international development studies.
This book explores the causes and consequences of market failure in
bridging societal differences to create a shared economy. It
questions the current world order and evaluates socio-economic
gains in reference to the social origins of the economic agents.
With a need to counterbalance economic growth with social equality
and environmental sustainability, the book proposes innovative
approaches to address key questions on the contemporary global
economy such as, "Is the Global socio-economic order supportive of
the pursuit of rational and enlightened self -interest?", "Is it a
unipolar power centre and neoliberal economic policy regime?", "Can
the system reinvent itself?", etc. One approach encourages going
back to the golden past and making things "great again", insisting
that history has ended and the failures of old global institutions
be blamed on the "Clash of Civilizations". Another approach
advocates giving up the intellectual comfort zone of elegant but
irrelevant neo-liberal explanations of global challenges and asking
new questions that take academic debate to the public square. The
book examines the internal challenges and contradictions that cause
disintegration and proposes alternative ideas and practices in
moving the global community beyond the free market regime. The book
will appeal to students and academics of development studies,
political economy, political science, sociology, as well as
policymakers and public opinion makers interested in creating a new
egalitarian global society.
This book explores the causes and consequences of market failure in
bridging societal differences to create a shared economy. It
questions the current world order and evaluates socio-economic
gains in reference to the social origins of the economic agents.
With a need to counterbalance economic growth with social equality
and environmental sustainability, the book proposes innovative
approaches to address key questions on the contemporary global
economy such as, "Is the Global socio-economic order supportive of
the pursuit of rational and enlightened self -interest?", "Is it a
unipolar power centre and neoliberal economic policy regime?", "Can
the system reinvent itself?", etc. One approach encourages going
back to the golden past and making things "great again", insisting
that history has ended and the failures of old global institutions
be blamed on the "Clash of Civilizations". Another approach
advocates giving up the intellectual comfort zone of elegant but
irrelevant neo-liberal explanations of global challenges and asking
new questions that take academic debate to the public square. The
book examines the internal challenges and contradictions that cause
disintegration and proposes alternative ideas and practices in
moving the global community beyond the free market regime. The book
will appeal to students and academics of development studies,
political economy, political science, sociology, as well as
policymakers and public opinion makers interested in creating a new
egalitarian global society.
This book centers around an intense debate among donors,
policymakers, development practitioners, and academics on the
efficacy of aid in eradicating poverty while promoting human
development. It seeks to fill the gap in present literature by
presenting stories of better spending through implementing
Sustainable Development Goals and addressing Agenda 2030 via
indigenization of global development goals with initiatives at
local and national levels. The book adopts an innovative approach
to dealing with aid effectiveness by highlighting the relevance of
better spending, rather than excessive spending. It does so with
real-life examples of interventions made in the Global South to
realize the vision of "thinking globally and acting locally". These
case studies speak to the significance of communities' role in
shouldering responsibility for planning, financing, operating, and
maintaining local developmental initiatives. The examples also
demonstrate how aid serves its purpose when used as an investment
in communities and enterprising individuals, in order to realize
the strategic impact of giving and build a local "receiving
mechanism" for indigenizing and achieving global development goals.
The book references cases of better spending by governments,
philanthropists, and civil society organizations (CSOs) from across
Asia, Africa, and Latin America on a range of issues and will,
thus, be of interest to development practitioners, policymakers,
donors, philanthropists, civil society organizations, and academics
and students of international development studies.
Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the
toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the
future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages,
economic crises and growing competition for the use of renewable
and non renewable resources. This challenge is even more crucial
given that we have not yet come close to achieving the Millennium
Development Goal of halving the number of people living in extreme
poverty and hunger. Scientists and relevant stakeholders are now
voicing a clear message: that multiple challenges the world is
facing require innovative, multifaceted, science-based,
technological, economic and political approaches in theoretical
thinking, decision making and action. With this background central
to survival and well-being, the purpose of this volume is to
formulate and promote relevant theoretical analysis and policy
recommendations. The major perspective of this publication is that
paradigm and policy shifts at all levels are needed urgently. This
is based on the evidence that agriculture in the 21st century will
be undergoing significant demands, arising largely from the need to
increase the global food enterprise, while adjusting and
contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation. Global
Food Insecurity aims at providing structure to effect achievement
of this critically needed roadmap.
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