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Knowledge to Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 238

Knowledge to Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-04-06
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  • Publisher: IDRC

Investigates the effects of research in the field of international development.. Examines the consequences of 23 research projects funded by Canada's International Development Research Centre in developing countries. Shows how research influence public policy and decision-making and how can contribute to better governance.

Open Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Open Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development. The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures allow people to come together to share information, organize, and collaborate. Open development harnesses this power, to create new organizational forms and improve people's lives; it is not only an agenda for research and practice but also a statement about how to approach international development. In this volume, experts explore a variety of applications of openness, addressing challenges as we...

Innovation and the Development Agenda
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 155

Innovation and the Development Agenda

Innovation drives long-term economic growth. This book examines the role of innovation in developing countries, with a focus on Africa.

The Lab, the Temple, and the Market
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Lab, the Temple, and the Market

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: IDRC

[This book] meshes a discussion of development issues and processes with four different systems of religious beliefs: Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i Faith. The authors - each a scientist as well as a person of faith - show how religious belief and personal faith can be deeply motivational and strikingly fruitful in scientific pursuits. Further, they emphasize how their faith has brought them a profound understanding of interconnectedness and compassion, and thus a wider perspective and greater sense of personal meaning to their research. -- Book jacket.

Palestinian Refugees
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Palestinian Refugees

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: IDRC

The Palestinian refugee issue remains a central component of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This book explores the demographic and developmental challenges which the return of refugees to a future Palestinian state would generate.

Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Gender Justice, Citizenship and Development

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-01-01
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  • Publisher: Zubaan

Although there have been notable gains for women globally in the last few decades, gender inequality and gender-based inequities continue to impinge upon girls' and women's ability to realize their rights and their full potential as citizens and equal partners in decision-making and development. In fact, for every right that has been established, there are millions of women who do not enjoy it. In this book, studies from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are prefaced by an introductory chapter that links current thinking on.

Managing Natural Resources for Development in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 572

Managing Natural Resources for Development in Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: IDRC

The complex and dynamic interlinks between natural resource management (NRM) and development have long been recognized by national and international research and development organizations and have generated voluminous literature. However, much of what is available in the form of university course books, practical learning manuals and reference materials in NRM is based on experiences from outside Africa. Managing Natural Resources for Development in Africa: A Resource Book provides an understanding of the various levels at which NRM issues occur and are being addressed scientifically, economically, socially and politically. The book's nine chapters present state-of-the-art perspectives withi...

Digital Poverty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Digital Poverty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: IDRC

Examines the problem of inedequate access to information and communication technology (ICT) and the need to develop appropriate pro-poor ICT policies. Shows how market reforms have failed to ensure that the benefits of the Information Society have spread across the region.

Developing National Systems of Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

Developing National Systems of Innovation

Interactions between firms and universities are key building blocks of innovation systems. This book focuses on those interactions in developing countries, presenting studies based on fresh empirical material prepared by research teams in 12 countries

Communities, Livelihoods and Natural Resources
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

Communities, Livelihoods and Natural Resources

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: IDRC

This book synthesizes results from a 7-year programme of applied research on community-based approaches to natural resource management in Asia. By presenting field reports of innovative approaches to poverty reduction and sustainable resource use, it provides practitioners with models of ""good practice"" in participatory, community-based resource management, and it demonstrates how site-based research contributes to broader learning in the field of natural resource management and policy. There are 11 case studies featured, from some of the most marginal areas of rural China, Mongolia, Laos, V.