Development studies

Meeting the aims of sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult; at the same time, the call for culture is becoming more powerful.

Corruption is linked to a wide range of developmental issues, including undermining democratic institutions, slowing economic development and contributing to government instability, poverty and inequality.

India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world.

As a window for understanding the relationship between globalization and the state's pursuit of national industrial development, this book examines how and why the Chinese government succeeded in leveraging China's international competitive advantages to modernize the country's automotive industry.

HUANG Yiping is Professor of Economics at the China Center for Economic Research, National School of Development, Peking University, China.

This volume examines case studies on EU countries' policy to combat climate change, examining the constraints of and opportunities for the implementation of climate change strategies in these countries.

This book provides insights into how new ventures in emerging economies and developing countries generate social innovation.

The growing inequality in the global economy across the planet is reaching unprecedented levels.

Originally published in 1982.

This book examines the normative tensions inherent in upward mobility within the international system, focusing particularly on the clash between sovereign self-interest and the putatively universal norms associated with international interventions.

Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations.

Using quantitative techniques, this volume provides empirical evidence on the crucial role of public provisioning of food, water, sanitation and health care in reducing undernutrition among women and children in India.

This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises.

Across organisations and communities there are leaders who manage to get things done through their ability to understand how a network of individuals connect, who to talk to and how to bring people together in the right constellation of effort.

Ensuring equity in healthcare is the main concern of health policymakers in order to provide a sustainable health system.

With the use of wide-ranging case studies the author clearly illustrates the impact of schemes intended to re-allocate land in developing countries.

This book introduces readers to the many dimensions of historical and contemporary Indian transnationalism and the experiences of migrants and workers to reveal the structures of transnationalism and the ways in which Indian origin groups are affected.

This book by influential policymaker Chi Fulin lays out in issue-oriented and detailed chapters, at a time when China is at a crossroads, exactly how the government plans to deal with the social, political and economic issues the world's second-largest economy faces.

This book examines the various economic, political and developmental policy challenges that Malaysia faces in her shift from a middle income to high-income economy.

According to recent estimates, around 6,000 people - mostly children under five - die every day from diseases caused by inappropriate water and sanitation (WS) services.

This academic book critically examines the concept of sustainable futures and its interdependence with the policy framework of Green New Deals.

In the rich tradition of mobile communication studies and new media, this volume examines how mobile technologies are being embraced by Indigenous people all over the world.

This edited volume analyzes South Asian public administration and its role in development through the lens of SDG 16.

Safety Science Research: Evolution, Challenges and New Directions provides a unique perspective into the latest developments of safety science by putting together, for the first time, a new generation of authors with some of the pioneers of the field.

As the global economy seeks to recover from the financial crisis and warnings about the consequences of climate change abound, it is clear that we need a fundamentally new approach to tackle these issues.

This book explores the need for deep-seated social change in Myanmar if the country's democratic transition and peace process is to deliver tangible benefits for those that have long faced profound vulnerability and marginalisation.

How can property rights be protected and contracts be enforced in countries where the rule of law is ineffective or absent?

This book sketches an institutional political economy framework to discuss the interaction between development and foreign policy in the global South with reference to Turkey.

Les Sara arrivent, à partir du XVI^e siècle, du Nord-Est de l’Afrique par vagues successives dans le bassin du lac Tchad.

Documents the recent developments in privatisation through 25 country case-studies.

In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary to consider what happens across a wide range of poverty lines.

Are we winning or losing the battle for safe environments?

Southwest Under Stress examines the development-environment conflict in the four contiguous states of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

The oil boom prompted a massive inflow of capital into the Arab region.

South Korea has been quietly growing into a major economic force that is even challenging some Japanese industries.

First published in 1994, this volume responds to a key debate in the European Community, extant since the signing of the Single European Act (SEA) in 1986, in exploring the role of transportation in the creation of a Common Market with free movement of goods, people, capital and services.

Although there is much interest in poverty reduction, there are few agreed upon strategies to effectively reduce poverty.

This book is a collection of essays honouring and engaging with the work of the late Professor Patrick McAuslan.

In der Kinder- und Jugendbuchforschung gilt übereinstimmend, dass im Gegensatz zur allgemeinen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung eine verlässliche Materialbasis noch vollständig fehlt und die vorhandenen Lücken nur schrittweise geschlossen werden können.

Educating Entrepreneurial Citizens examines the multiple and contradictory purposes and effects of entrepreneurship education aimed at addressing youth unemployment and alleviating poverty in Tanzania.

History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up to the beginnings of their status as independent nations.

This book analyses the diffusion and implementation of Aid Effectiveness Principles in Kenya's agricultural sector.

The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their experiences of poverty in developing countries, including world-leading academics and case studies from China, India, Ethiopia and South Africa.

This book provides a comprehensive approach to the perspectives, lived experiences, and socio-cultural beliefs of Indigenous scholars regarding disabilities through a distinctions-based approach.

From the Global to the Local develops a unique perspective on human rights governance in developing countries, where the state often lacks the required resources, capacities and expertise for implementing rights.

Citizenship implies exclusion of non-members.

This book gathers together invited presentations from the 12th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems (ICLS2017) held in Beijing, China, August 20-23, 2017.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.