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More praise; About the authors; Title page; Copyright; Table of contents; Illustrations; Foreword by Stephen Devereux; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: why social protection needs a gender lens; Beyond mothers and safety nets: the argument for a gender-sensitive approach to social protection; Methodology; Figure 0.1 Life story of Tamenu; Figure 0.2 Life story of Faisal; Figure 0.3 Life story of Mayimbu; Figure 0.4 Life story of MiLenh; Structure of the book; 1 Key concepts in gender and social protection; Introduction; Concepts of poverty and vulnerability.

This book analyses Jamaica's ability to satisfy its short and long run foreign currency obligations in light of recurrent balance of payment support from international lending agencies. Jamaica is one of the top five indebted nations in the world, and despite entering 13 successive arrangements with the International Monetary Fund over the past 40 years, its depreciating currency continues to drive up debt servicing requirements. The island nation's longstanding relationship with multilateral lending agencies like the IMF serves as a case study for other developing countries that are unable to generate sufficient intrinsic net international reserves and, consequently, suffer from incredibly low GDP growth per annum. The book closes with policy recommendations to bolster the Jamaican economy into solvency so that it can create a sustainable foreign debt repayment plan, and suggests strategies for supporting local economic objectives within global geopolitical constraints.--

This book builds on a decade-long experience with mechanisms provided by the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It discusses the challenges of climate finance in the context of the post-Copenhagen negotiations and provides a long-term outlook of how climate finance in developing countries could develop. Written by climate finance experts from academia, carbon finance businesses and international organizations, the book provides background, firsthand insights, case studies and analysis into the complex subject area of climate finance

This article analyzes levels of protest mobilization in eighteen African countries-by far the region least studied by researchers of protest dynamics. Theoretically, its goal is to integrate the role of organizational engagement into political opportunity approaches to protest mobilization. Empirically, it uses African data to test whether Western-driven theories provide useful insights for analyzing protest dynamics in developing countries. The analysis yields three major findings: (1) the more open and democratic the political context, the more individuals mobilize, although the impact of the political opportunity structure in repressive contexts is less certain; (2) the more individuals are engaged in organizations, excluding religious organizations, the more they mobilize: (3) the impact of individual organizational engagement on the probability of mobilizing in protests does not change across contexts. Adapted from the source document.