A través de las voces de sus protagonistas, este libro propone una imagen del complejo mundo del trabajo en el Perú. La experiencia de vendedores migrantes, ambulantes, músicos o estudiantes preparándose para trabajar dan cuenta de cómo nos identificamos con nuestros trabajos y organizaciones, en un complejo proceso que se mueve desde el orgullo hasta la resignación. El libro busca comprender cómo se entrecruzan diferentes desigualdades a la...

Se sabe que en cada argentino se esconden un director técnico de fútbol y también un "experto" en educación, capaz de diagnosticar los grandes problemas de la escuela y prescribir recetas mágicas para solucionarlos. Todos nos sentimos autorizados a hablar de la educación, porque fuimos a la escuela o porque volvimos a ella como docentes o como padres. El problema no es que opinemos, sino que esas opiniones se conviertan en estereotipos, que...

On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world were defined as underdeveloped and they have stayed that way ever since. This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and shows how poorly we understand these two terms. It offers a new vision for development, demystifying the statistics that international organizations use to measure...

In 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada's flagship foreign aid agency for decades, and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). As the government is rethinking Canadian aid and its relationship with other foreign policy and commercial objectives, the time is ripe to rethink Canadian aid more broadly. Edited by...

Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting-a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs-to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking closely at eight cities in Brazil, comparing those that...

In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Brazil improved the health and well-being of its populace more than any other large democracy in the world. Long infamous for its severe inequality, rampant infant mortality, and clientelist politics, the country ushered in an unprecedented twenty-five-year transformation in its public health institutions and social development outcomes, declaring a striking seventy percent reduction in infant...

People around the world are suffering of issues we in rich countries consider banal. Many of the challenges facing tens of millions of people daily could be solved with relative ease. But we lack will. There are no short term economic gains. Besides, giving poor countries a slice of the pie reduces the size of our slice, right? Wrong. The pie grows.

Development-induced displacements may lead to loss of land, livelihoods, shelter, property, and access to social facilities, natural resources and cultural heritage, if the affected people are not cushioned by appropriate compensation and social support mechanisms, as well as integrated rehabilitation programmes to mitigate negative impact. As a result, communities often resist relocations and in some instances the emerging conflicts between the responsible...

In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. socialism, right vs. left, indigenous vs. mestizo,...

The most serious environmental problems of the twenty-first century have the potential to alter the course of life on this planet. Global warming, toxic waste, water and air pollution, acid rain, and shrinking energy supplies are frightening challenges that may threaten our future if we do not face up to them. Global Environmental Challenges provides important information and gives us hope about the environment. This book first helps us to grasp these...