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1. Famine Early Warning Systems

   Victims and destitution

   By Peter Walker

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   Is it possible to see famines coming, to be prepared and to save possibly hundreds of thousands of lives? Or is this the wrong question? A famine is not a single natural catastrophe: it has different stages. Many societies have sophisticated strategies for coping – but these are becoming...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. Exploited Earth

   Britain's aid and the environment

   By Teresa Hayter

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   How do ''types'' of aid differ? Why are there different kinds? When is one more appropriate than another? How can you tell ''good'' aid from ''bad''? Friends of the Earth commissioned Teresa Hayter, author of Aid as Imperialism and Aid: Rhetoric and Reality, to examine Britain's aid policy and...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Doing Development

   Government, NGOs and the rural poor in Asia

   By Richard Holloway

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   The absolutely poor, who are mostly rural people, are a large part of the developing world's population and their numbers are growing. Government development programmes, aided by the big donors, have made the poor poorer and have rendered them more powerless in relation to the rest of society. They...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Child Slaves

   By Peter Lee-Wright

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   In Portugal, 12-year-olds manufacture clothes destined for British chain-stores. In Brazil, children work more than nine hours a day glueing shoes for sale in the West. This book, based on research done with the co-operation of the Anti-Slavery Society for a recent major BBC television documentary,...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. Literacy and Power

   The Latin American battleground

   By David Archer, Patrick Costello

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   The often bloody struggles of Central America have dominated news reports for a long time. Behind the headlines lies an enormous population of the desperately poor, and it is axiomatic that they are rendered even more powerless by widespread illiteracy. What actually counts as literacy is less...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
6. Crisis and Opportunity

   Environment and development in Africa

   By Francois Falloux, Lee M Talbot

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   Winner of the Prix Pierre Chauleur of the French Academie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer Until some way is found of dealing with Africa's catastrophic environmental crises none of the continent's other problems will find a long-term solution. Yet there is hope, and Crisis and Opportunity sets out a...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
7. The Greening of Aid

   Sustainable livelihoods in practice

   By Czech Conroy, Miles Litvinoff

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   The development of poor countries has so often meant the export of Northern technology for ambitious schemes designed to make money ? the latest giant dam, oil refinery, logging process or pesticide factory. But such 'aid' has frequently been ecologically destructive and its crippling cost has...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
8. The Reality of Aid 2000

   An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance

   By Judith Randel, Tony German, Deborah Ewing

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   NOW IN ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid 2000 looks at how the performance of OECD donor countries on aid and development cooperation has matched up to the challenge of eliminating absolute poverty. The report charts some improvements at the level of donor policy and rhetoric. But its...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
9. The Reality of Aid 1998-1999

   An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance

   By Judith Randel, Tony German with Deborah Ewing

   Series: Aid and Development Set

   NOW IN ITS SIXTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid has for the first time analysed the 'fair share' of bilateral aid for basic social services ? basic education, basic health, reproductive health, nutrition, clean water and sanitation - that should come from each donor; an analysis which shows...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
10. The Reality of Aid 1997-1998

    An independent review of development cooperation

    By Judith Randel, Tony German

    Series: Aid and Development Set

    NOW IN ITS FIFTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid continues to present the most comprehensive and rigorous independent analysis available of the aid and development policies of the world's richest nations, and exposes the gaps between rhetoric and reality. Part I presents a consideration of...

    Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge