Developing & Emerging Countries
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The Challenge for Africa
$22.00 Add to cartIn this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed … [more below]
- Author: Maathai, Wangari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0307390284
- Language: English
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We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance
$31.99 Read moreShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Prize
A deeply reported work of journalism that explores the promises and perils of microfinance, told through the eyes of international lenders and women borrower- Author: Kardas-Nelson, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1250817226
- Language: English
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
$21.95 Add to cart**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The countr- Author: Tudor, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0804844585
- Language: English
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India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know
$16.95 Add to cartAccording to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live in the world’s second-largest economy, after China bu… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Kamdar, Mira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199973598
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who li
- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1608463850
- Language: English
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER – NAMED ONE OF TIME‘S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE
“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the mos- Author: Boo, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08, 2014
- ISBN10: 081297932X
- Language: English
