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        SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries

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        The Handbook of Social Protection

        The Handbook of Social Protection

        The Handbook of Social Protection

        Evidence and New Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

        Edited by Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken

        ISBN: 9780262051408

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 10, 2026

        A much-needed guide exploring social protection on poverty, inequality, health, and government finance—from cash transfers to unemployment insurance—in low- and middle-income nations.
        Climate Justice

        Climate Justice

        Climate Justice

        What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future

        by Cass R. Sunstein

        ISBN: 9780262053976

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 17, 2026

        The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard of—and what it means.
        Networking Peripheries

        Networking Peripheries

        Networking Peripheries

        Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism

        by Anita Say Chan

        ISBN: 9780262552073

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: May 21, 2024

        An exploration of the diverse experiments in digital futures as they advance far from the celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
        In the Images of Development

        In the Images of Development

        In the Images of Development

        City Design in the Global South

        by Tridib Banerjee

        ISBN: 9780262044707

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 8, 2021

        The urban legacy of the Global South since the colonial era and how sustainable development and environmental and social justice can be achieved.
        Making Aid Work

        Making Aid Work

        Making Aid Work

        by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee

        With Alice H. Amsden, Robert H. Bates, Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Angus Deaton and Nicholas Stern

        ISBN: 9780262534116

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 10, 2017

        An encouraging account of the potential of foreign aid to reduce poverty and a challenge to all aid organizations to think harder about how they spend their money.
        Open Development

        Open Development

        Open Development

        Networked Innovations in International Development

        Edited by Matthew L. Smith and Katherine M. A. Reilly

        Foreword by Yochai Benkler

        ISBN: 9780262525411

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 10, 2014

        Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
        Chronicles from the Field

        Chronicles from the Field

        Chronicles from the Field

        The Townsend Thai Project

        by Robert M. Townsend, Sombat Sakunthasathien and Rob Jordan

        ISBN: 9780262019071

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 12, 2013

        Lessons learned in the process of designing and implementing one of the longest-running panel data surveys in development economics.
        Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries

        Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries

        Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries

        A Comparative Perspective

        Edited by Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

        ISBN: 9780262524544

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: June 16, 2006

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