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Theory and Applications

Are digital technologies really a silver bullet for development in the Global South?


Digital technologies are supposed to solve the challenges of climate change, projected population growth, land conflicts and food insecurity, especially in rural areas. Yet NGOs, government institutions, and private companies are increasingly adopting a trial-and-error approach as they recognize the limitations of transferring Western science and technologies to the global South.
 
This book presents the ambivalent practices and implications of digital pilot projects which aim to 'develop' both farming communities and locally adapted innovations in East Africa. Inspired by laboratory ethnographies in Science and Technology Studies, it explores the practices of testing and developing digital technologies in rural Tanzania. The multi-sited ethnography, which takes in agricultural fairs, conferences, documents, online courses, tech hubs, project offices, villages and fields, centres on three case studies, namely DAST (a digital land-formalisation tool), STAS (an AI system for agricultural productivity) and iPlus (an e-extension tool). Rather than viewing these technologies simply as welcome tools to promote connectivity, empowerment and increased production - as commonly advanced in development policy - this book foregrounds the (un)intended consequences of the planning, set-up, maintenance and results of digital pilot projects. Against the backdrop of conflicting logics between testing technologies and developing Tanzanian agriculture through them, this book considers their (un)predictable impacts on new actors, the character of development and the trial communities in rural Tanzania.

Piloting Digital Technologies for Agriculture in Tanzania

Experimental Rural Development in the Global South

Understanding the International Environment & Global Business Functions

Introduction to Global Business

Human Exceptionality: School, Community, and Family

Pressure is inevitable. How you handle it determines everything.In this expanded hardcover edition of How to Untie a Balloon, former hostage negotiator and Conflictish(R) founder Ryan Dunlap delivers a practical framework for staying composed under pressure, resolving conflicts, and leading effectively when the stakes are high. With a new chapter and never-before-shared stories of real-world negotiation experience in life-or-death situations, Dunlap reveals how unchecked pressure distorts thinking, escalates conflict, and quietly sabotages relationships at work and at home.At the center of this practical guide is the F.I.R.S.T. Steps framework--Feelings, Interests, Relationships, Situation, and Toll--a clear, repeatable process for navigating difficult conversations with confidence and control. Whether you are leading a team, negotiating a deal, strengthening a partnership, or working through personal conflict, this framework equips you to break complex tension into manageable parts and move toward resolution.Through compelling real-life stories, sharp strategic insights, and actionable tools, the second edition will show you how to: <ul><li>Regulate emotion in the heat of conflict to preserve credibility and influence</li><li>Identify the deeper interests driving tension and move beyond surface disagreements</li><li>Prevent escalation and protect relationships under stress</li><li>Approach high-stakes conversations with clarity and structure</li><li>Transform pressure from a liability into a leadership advantage</li></ul>For professionals ready to take their leadership to the next level, How to Untie a Balloon, 2nd Edition, is a necessary resource for growing your leadership influence and developing the self-mastery to thrive under any pressure.

A Negotiator's Guide to Avoid Popping Under Pressure

How to Untie a Balloon

"SELL," 8th Edition helps you build the professional selling skills valued in today's marketplace. Updated and streamlined content covers the latest sales concepts, industry practices, and technologies, including the role of artificial intelligence in the selling process. Learn how to build customer relationships through storytelling, customer engagement, customer experience strategies, ethical decision-making, and virtual selling techniques. Real-world case studies, role-play activities, and end-of-chapter case studies help you apply key concepts to real-world sales challenges. Cengage's learning platform, MindTap, supports your learning experience by providing you with instant access to course content, quizzes, homework, study tools, and more.

Sell

An indispensable guide to dealing with disasters from one of today's foremost thinkers in crisis management, now updated with a new afterword."In a world marred by preventable miscalculation, Juliette Kayyem's The Devil Never Sleeps provides a playbook for making it out alive." -The New Yorker The future may be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than right. So why do we still fumble when crisis strikes? In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem outlines a radical new way to prepare for disasters. Traditional principles of crisis management, focused on preventing disasters, are no longer viable. We need a forward-thinking approach that allows us to respond, recover, and build more resilience when crisis occurs. Drawing on her experience in national security and assessing real-life examples-from natural disasters like the California wildfires to human-made ones like airplane collisions-Kayyem identifies common lessons that can be implemented now to limit harm in the future. The Devil Never Sleeps is an essential guide for developing strategies that actually work in the face of perpetual catastrophe.

Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters

The Devil Never Sleeps

Saving Africa's Future

We Are the World

Private equity buccaneers have generated untold wealth by plundering the worlds of commerce, defence and sport. In the process they have also destroyed jobs, hurt consumers, neglected environmental concerns and undermined public trust in share markets. In this book, Alex Brummer, City Editor at the Daily Mail, lifts the lid on the dangers of private equity Financially driven private ownership has contributed to waterways being clogged with sewage; high parking charges; malfunctioning baggage handling at airports; the collapse and impairment of some of our best-loved retail stores and the alienation of sports fans from much-loved franchises. Private equity finance is an industry which thrives on leverage (debt), is untrammelled by regulations, poses a danger to economic stability and often works against the national interest. Starting out in the US, the private equity industry rapidly spread to Britain, where many of the big players have set up their European and global headquarters. In this wide-ranging book, Alex Brummer takes in a broad focus on the dangers of private equity to the global economic order, examining in detail the danger of grotesque levels of debt, and the neglect of the public interest in what private equity firms do.

How One Industry Is Wrecking Businesses, Harming Consumers and Undermining the World's Financial Markets

The Pirates of Private Equity

Despite the recognized significance of projectification, the empirical quantification of its extent remains limited and methodologically diverse. By employing a systematic literature review (SLR) procedure, the study identifies the existing studies that focus on the quantitative measurement of projectification. This method-based review examines existing methods to measure projectification, critically analyses methodological approaches, and assesses their overall quality using the AXIS tool. The analysis reveals considerable variance in reporting, stratification criteria, sampling procedures, sample size and a gap in the handling of non-responses, highlighting the need for standardized measurement frameworks to enhance comparability, reliability, validity, and replicability. Moreover, the detailed analysis of Total Survey Error components with confidence intervals and sample representativeness reexamination indicated that projectification saturation might be more prevalent than previously claimed. We provide a new definition of projectification and propose a framework to improve the methodology of projectification measurement studies, including standardized reporting guidelines that aim to encourage similar measurements in other countries. More importantly, the book provides key takeaways for the business community by answering the fundamental questions: what to measure, how to collect the data and how to report those.

Review of Existing Measurements, Knowledge and Future Challenges

Projectification

Ethics, Sustainability & Stakeholder Management

Business & Society

Routledge Studies in Development Economics

The Political Economy of International Development Assistance

In 1977, The Economist coined the term "Dutch disease" to describe the damage to the real economy when wealth derives from resource exports rather than productive work. On April 1, 1978, the Second Amendment to the IMF's Articles of Agreement came into force, ending gold's monetary role within the IMF system and consolidating the transition to pure fiat money. With "money" no longer backed by anything real, the alchemists' dream of a "Philosopher's Stone"--the ability to create seemingly limitless wealth out of nothing--appeared to have been realized. But while real wealth produced by human labor is finite, fiat money creation is not subject to the same physical constraint. The result was a new and far more powerful variant of Dutch disease: the Philosopher's Stone Disease. The Money Powers' financialization of economies and imposition of neoliberalism increasingly privileged finance over production. Over the next four decades, the consequences extended beyond economics, eroding the cultural and civilizational heritage and traditions of large swaths of the global population. The socioeconomic impact of this pure fiat-money regime, globally and within the United States, has been an across-the-board deterioration, while its benefits accrued overwhelmingly to less than 0.01 percent of the population. Yet creating money cannot create the real goods it commands. The system therefore depends upon a steady external supply of real goods and the recycling of part of the resulting surpluses into U.S. financial assets. Energy revenues from West Asia have been key to sustaining it. A resurgent Iran thus posed an existential threat to the UK-established and U.S.-dominated oil order. Sanctions, assassinations, proxy wars, color revolutions, terrorist attacks and mass psychological manipulation followed, but failed to achieve their objective. If Iran emerges victorious from the war launched against it in 2026 and breaks U.S. control over the oil-rich Levant, the petrodollar recycling system will suffer a massive blow, accelerating withdrawal from U.S. Treasuries. The dilemma is stark: financial dominance ultimately requires real power to enforce it, while the Philosopher's Stone Disease has hollowed out the productive and military foundations of that power. Why the West Can't Recover: The Philosopher's Stone Disease explains why there may be no way back.

The Philosopoher's Stone Disease

Why the West Can't Recover

Macroeconomics

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