Author: Steve Berkman
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Keywords: lending, gods, bank, world
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-06-25
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1565492595
ISBN-13: 9781565492592

Uncovering the World Bank s loan programs in the developing world in "The Gods of Lending", author Steve Berkman finds nothing but mismanagement and hypocrisy: decades of assistance without any significant improvement in the lives of the poor; billions loaned for improving governance, health care and education with little to show for it; and donor funds given to dysfunctional government institutions or officials with a history of looting national treasuries. With sixteen years as a Bank staff and consultant, Berkman presents compelling evidence of deceptive reporting and lack of due diligence

Authors:Frederick C. Cuny, Richard B. Hill,
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Keywords: guide, basic, response, conflict, famine
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1565490908
ISBN-13: 9781565490901

A practical guide to immediate and lasting solutions for famine through identification of underlying causes and efficient utilization of resources in a crisis. A controversial visionary who disappeared in 1995, Fred Cuny takes an economic approach to wartime famine that is still considered innovative. Cuny focuses on counter-famine measures revolving around people’s livelihoods, giving all humanitarian relief workers a more permanent solution to world hunger.

Authors:Dennis A. Rondinelli, G. Shabbir Cheema,
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Keywords: capacity, globalizing, society, state, century, government, twenty, first, reinventing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-09
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 1565491785
ISBN-13: 9781565491786

How does a government that seeks to participate in and benefit from an increasingly integrated and interdependent world reinvent its structures and processes to become more professional, technologically proficient, deregulated, honest, and transparent? Reinventing Government for the Twenty-First Century tells you how. Melding theoretical models with practical experience, Rondinelli and Cheema identify the forces of globalization and offer sound advice for public leaders and administrators in creating the structures and processes needed to increase state capacity and enhance participation in

Authors:Antonio Donini, Norah Niland, Karin Wermester,
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Keywords: justice, afghanistan, peace, aid, building, unraveled, nation
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1565491807
ISBN-13: 9781565491809

In the globalized post-September 11th world, can the prevailing wisdom about nation-building foster stability by enforcing "democracy" from the outside? This book is written by key practitioners and analysts directly involved in in the political, assistance, and human rights aspects of the Afghan crisis. It illustrates how new international "ordering" practices affect the role and policy of international actors. It shows how United Nations agencies and international NGOs, for example, interact with national authorities and local communities, and examines their ability to generate just and soci

Authors:David Lewis, David Mosse,
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Keywords: aid, agencies, ethnography, translators, brokers, development
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-04-15
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 156549217X
ISBN-13: 9781565492172

The success of any international development agency depends on an understanding of the ways in which a community and individuals relate to ideas and resources. David Lewis and David Mosse have brought together a number of anthropologists engaged in development research to show how ethnography can be an indispensable tool for understanding these complex and dynamic relationships. The world that this ethnography of development reveals does not divide neatly into the developers and the developed, perpetrators and victims, domination and resistance, or the incompatible rationalities of scientif

Authors:Mark Turner, David Hulme,
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Keywords: development, press, books, kumarian, international, state, administration, making, governance, work
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-06
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 1565490703
ISBN-13: 9781565490703

* A popular introduction to public policy and management in developing countries* Varying expert perspectives on critical current issues* Essential reading for students and practitioners alike Governance, Administration & Development has become a classic text that evaluates both traditional and new models of public administration. It emphasizes the challenge to the centrality of the state in development, as well as current debates about the conditions of effective governance. The authors incorporate up-to-date case studies based on their broad academic and consulting experience in a range

Author: Deborah McLaren
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Keywords: ecotravel, tourism, rethinking
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2003-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1565491696
ISBN-13: 9781565491694

A fully revised and comprehensive overview of the history and global development of tourism, often considered the largest industry in the world. Despite promising great benefits to hosts and guests alike, tourism has resulted in some very stark and painful consequences for local host communities and the environment. This second edition provides updated information on global tourism and examines how local communities in different parts of the world, especially indigenous peoples, have responded to the challenges and opportunities that tourism and eco-travel brings.