Aid & Relief Programmes

We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt ...

The recent devastation caused by tsunamis, hurricanes and wildfires highlights the need for highly trained professionals who can develop effective ...

Today international development policy is converging around ideas of neoliberal reform, democratisation and poverty reduction. What does this mean ...

In Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence, James W. Messerschmidt unravels some of the mysteries of teenage violence. Written by one of the mo...

Why does hunger persist in a world of plenty? Ending Hunger Worldwide challenges the naive notion that everyone wants hunger to end, arguing that t...

In 2013 almost half of Africa's top aid recipients were ruled by authoritarian regimes. While the West may claim to promote democracy and human rig...

The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. This flash flood o...

In Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence, James W. Messerschmidt unravels some of the mysteries of teenage violence. Written by one of the mo...

Record breaking hurricane seasons, tornados, tsunamis, earthquakes, and intentional acts of mass-casualty violence, give lie to the delusion that d...

Since the early 1990s, Japan has played an increasingly important and influential role in Africa. A primary mechanism that has furthered its influe...

International and Local Actors in Disaster Response uses the Beirut explosion in August 2020 to explore disaster prevention and response in develop...

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was established in 1993 with the intention of creating opportunities for trade an...

Natural disasters make dramatic reading. Every year, some area of the world is devastated by a disaster, with enormous consequent loss of life and ...

The United States contributes more foreign aid than any other state in the world, and it is often recognized as a leader in engaging religious orga...

Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s some institutions made aid dependent upon the recipient count...

Foreign aid has increasingly become subject to political conditionality. In the 1980s some institutions made aid dependent upon the recipient count...

Wars and natural disasters--from the Balkans to the Sudan, and from Afghanistan to Central Africa--have increasingly placed humanitarian workers in...

Wars and natural disasters--from the Balkans to the Sudan, and from Afghanistan to Central Africa--have increasingly placed humanitarian workers in...

This volume looks at the effectiveness of conditionality in structural adjustment programmes. Tony Killick charts the emergence of conditionality, ...

This book focuses on the normative side of trade theory and is divided into five parts: * trade under perfect competition; * restricted trade under...

This volume looks at the effectiveness of conditionality in structural adjustment programmes. Tony Killick charts the emergence of conditionality, ...

Psychology of Aid provides an original, psychological approach to development studies, focusing as it does on the social aspects of aid and the mot...

Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) i...