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Aid and Ebb Tide

By David R. Morrison
Subjects: Social Science, Development Studies, Business & Economics, Sustainable Development, Political Science

Aid and Ebb Tide: A History of CIDA and Canadian Development Assistance examines Canada’s mixed record since 1950 in transferring over $50 billion in capital and expertise to developing countries through ...

Desire for Development

By Barbara Heron
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Development Studies, Political Science, African Politics, Sociology

In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial ...

Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare

Edited by Gary Cameron, Nick Coady, and Gerald R. Adams
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Social Work, Political Science, Social Policy

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book ...

Where No Doctor Has Gone Before

By Robert Huish
Subjects: Medical, Social Science, Development Studies, Political Science, Globalization

Tens of thousands of people around the world die each day from causes that could have been prevented with access to affordable health care resources. In an era of unprecedented global inequity, Cuba, ...

Unravelling Encounters

Edited by Caitlin Janzen, Donna Jeffery, and Kristin Smith
Subjects: Political Science, Social Science, Sociology

This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political ...

With Children and Youth

Edited by Hans A. Skott-Myhre, Kiaras Gharabaghi, and Mark Krueger
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Child Studies, Political Science, Social Services, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative ...

Uneasy Partners

By Janice Stein, David Robertson Cameron, John Ibbitson, Will Kymlicka, John Meisel, Haroon Siddiqui, and Michael Valpy
Introduction by Honourable Frank Iacobucci
Subjects: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Political Science
Series: Canadian Commentaries

After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as ...

Canada and Africa in the New Millennium

By David R. Black
Subjects: Social Science, Development Studies, Political Science, African Politics

Canada’s engagement with post-independence Africa presents a puzzle. Although Canada is recognized for its activism where Africa is concerned, critics have long noted the contradictions that underlie ...

Exporting Good Governance

Edited by Jennifer Welsh & Ngaire Woods
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Social Science, Development Studies
Series: Studies in International Governance

Can good governance be exported? International development assistance is more frequently being applied to strengthening governance in developing countries, and in Exporting Good Governance: Temptations ...

False Alarm

By John M. Gandy & Lorne Tepperman
Subjects: Political Science, Social Policy, Technology & Engineering, Social Science

This book uses case studies to show how and why eight social service organizations adopted computers.
Computerized information systems can be destructive or constructive for organizations and staff. ...