Publishing and Development

Publishing and Development
Author: Philip G. Altbach
Publisher: Bellagio Publishing Network
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Co-published with the Obor Foundation, this volume of readings is published to assist in worldwide efforts to support publishing in developing countries. Recognising the crucial need for an indigenous publishing industry, the volume illustrates the great variation in the development of publishing across the developing world. The chapters are reprints of key contributions from experts in the field to the main issues, and cover: current trends in book Ppblishing; multinationals and third world publishing; the economics of book publishing; international copyright; distribution: the neglected link in the publishing chain; educational publishing and book provision; the transition from state to commercial publishing systems in African countries; electronic publishing: new technologies and publishing; and publishing in the third world: issues and trends for the twenty- first century.

Communication for Development in the Third World

Communication for Development in the Third World
Author: Srinivas R Melkote
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2001-12-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780761994763

This completely revised edition builds on the framework provided by the earlier text. It traces the history of development communication, presents and critiques diverse approaches and their proponents, and provides ideas and models for development communication in the new century.

Understanding Third World Politics

Understanding Third World Politics
Author: Brian Clive Smith
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780253342171

Praise for the first edition: "... this masterful and concise volume overviews the range of approaches social scientists have applied to explain events in the Third World." --Journal of Developing Areas Understanding Third World Politics is a comprehensive, critical introduction to political development and comparative politics in the non-Western world today. Beginning with an assessment of the shared factors that seem to determine underdevelopment, B. C. Smith introduces the major theories of development--development theory, modernization theory, neo-colonialism, and dependency theory--and examines the role and character of key political organizations, political parties, and the military in determining the fate of developing nations. This new edition gives special attention to the problems and challenges faced by developing nations as they become democratic states by addressing questions of political legitimacy, consensus building, religion, ethnicity, and class.

Encountering Development

Encountering Development
Author: Arturo Escobar
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691150451

Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.

Human Development in Cultural Context

Human Development in Cultural Context
Author: A Bame Nsamenang
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 271
Release: 1992-05-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0803946368

A comprehensive, systematic account of human development which is sensitive to the needs, interests and ecologies of nonwestern cultures and individuals is provided in this unique volume. The importance and value of the sociocultural milieu in shaping the growth and development of children is emphasized, and the author asserts throughout that children do not grow and develop according to the same patterns regardless of culture. The author describes developmental psychology from the perspective of West Africa, demonstrating how the local ecology and the resulting cultural ideology lead to differing ways in which children are conceptualized and socialized, and in turn how they develop. While much of his case material is from

International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia

International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia
Author: Philip G. Altbach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 776
Release: 2015-05-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134261330

First Published in 1996. This encyclopedia is unique in several ways. As the first international reference source on publishing, it is a pioneering venture. Our aim is to provide comprehensive discussion and analysis of key subjects relating to books and publishing worldwide. The sixty-four essays included here feature not only factual and statistical information about the topic, but also analysis and evaluation of those facts and figures. The chapters are significantly more comprehensive than those typically found in an encyclopedia.

Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science

Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2004-06-14
Genre: Science
ISBN: 030918214X

This symposium, which was held on March 10-11, 2003, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, brought together policy experts and managers from the government and academic sectors in both developed and developing countries to (1) describe the role, value, and limits that the public domain and open access to digital data and information have in the context of international research; (2) identify and analyze the various legal, economic, and technological pressures on the public domain in digital data and information, and their potential effects on international research; and (3) review the existing and proposed approaches for preserving and promoting the public domain and open access to scientific and technical data and information on a global basis, with particular attention to the needs of developing countries.

Child Labor in the Developing World

Child Labor in the Developing World
Author: Alberto Posso
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811531064

This book provides new evidence of the theoretical and empirical causes and consequences of child labor. In so doing, the chapters provide a unique set of policy prescriptions that are applicable to both the developing countries that make up the case studies of the volume, as well as other countries more broadly. The volume is constructed to inform policy with rigorous analysis. However, unlike most academic studies, the language and flavour of the volume is largely non-technical, while the policy recommendations are practical. The volume is made up of three sections. The first section builds on the existing literature and provides new theoretical insights into child labor. Section 2 provides empirical evidence from both quantitative and qualitative case studies on child labor from across Asia, Africa and Latin America. This section provides information from studies conducted in Brazil, Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, India and Vietnam. Section 3 provides policy recommendations.