- Assessing Child Survival Programs
- Assessing Child Survival Programs in Developing Countries provides local health system managers with basic principles for rapid precise program monitoring and evaluation in difficult tropical conditions.
- Paperback
- Diasporas and Development
- Just as trade, finance, information, and technologies are moving rapidly across borders, so too are labor markets and transnational migrant communities, with migrants sending large quantities of money and knowledge back to their native countries as philanthropy, remittances, and commercial investments. Merz examines the positive--and sometimes negative--impacts of this transactional engagement in studies of Africa, Asia, Central America, and the Caribbean.
- Paperback 2007
- Health Dimensions of Sex and Reproduction
- From the health risks of sexual activity to those of pregnancy, abortion, and childbirth, reproduction constitutes enormous risks to a woman's health-accounting for 25 percent of the global disease burden in adult women, twenty-five percent in infants and one percent in adult men. This volume offers comprehensive data and detailed discussions of the epidemiologies of three sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, and five specific maternal conditions, as well as those of congenital anomalies and perinatal conditions.
- Hardcover 1998
- Privatization for the Public Good?
- Using unique household data sets for six Latin American countries, the essays collected in this volume put together a compelling picture of the effects of privatization.
- Paperback 2008
- Some Assembly Required
- One linchpin of China’s expansion has been township and village enterprises (TVEs), a vast group of firms with diverse modes of ownership and structure. Based on the author’s fieldwork in Zhejiang, this book explores the emergence and success of rural enterprises. This study also examines how ordinary rural residents have made sense of and participated in the industrialization engulfing them in recent decades.
- Hardcover 2008
- Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia
On the eve of World War I, Russia, not known as a nation of joiners, had thousands of voluntary associations. Joseph Bradley examines the crucial role of voluntary associations in the development of civil society in Russia from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
- Hardcover 2009