Development studies

This book investigates the politics of transatlantic trade, specifically the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations.

"e;It is my expectation that respect for the critical importance of seed sovereignty will in due course be recognised by member states of the United Nations to be as critical to global peace and security as the UN Charter demands in respect of State sovereign equality, justice, human rights and economic and social wellbeing for all peoples.

This book examines the life and work of Ajit Singh (1940-2015), a leading radical post-Keynesian applied economist who made major contributions to the policy-oriented study of both developed and developing economies, and was a key figure in the life and evolution of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics.

This book analyses African foundations of gender, education, politics, democracy and institutional development by stimulating theoretical discourses.

This book explores the dynamics of health system decentralization and recentralization, investigating why and how the territorial organization of health systems changes or remains stable over time.

This contributed volume presents the outcomes of multidisciplinary studies on the problem of sustainable economic development.

This book discusses the fundamental issues regarding the effect of real estate regulation on housing, urban development, and considerations of justice and efficiency.

This book focuses on the role of subsistence entrepreneurs in creating social and sustainable business opportunities on the global marketplace.

This textbook offers valuable insights into the nexus between geography, geopolitics, and humanitarian action.

This book examines the patterns, characteristics, causes and coping mechanisms of the poor in Afghanistan applying econometric and statistical techniques.

This edited volume consists of three parts.

This book provides a comprehensive search for the basic political drivers of international development cooperation, based on the policy and performance of the OECD countries from the early 1960s to the present.

This volume focuses on the evolution of public policy and the role of agenda setting with regard to policymaking in countries of the Global South.

This book provides a detailed insight into how space and its applications are embedded, and can be further embedded, into African society in support of the SDGs, while taking into account the specific features, needs, and diversity of that society.

This book examines the waves of protest that broke out in the 2010s as the collective actions of self-organized publics.

This book examines the history of nation-building in Kosova as a model of how the theories behind nation-building, state-building and peace-building can succeed or fail.

This book presents a new theory explaining underdevelopment in the global South and tests whether financial inputs, the government-business-media (GBM) complex and spatiotemporal influences drive human development.

This book promotes the well-being of the commons through representation and accountability through monitoring from below in order to operationalize engagement.

International peacebuilding has reached an impasse.

This book investigates the current and future state of freshwater and the global drive to achieve the UN sustainability goal.

This book brings together multiple critical assessments of the current state and future visions of global development studies.

This volume sheds new light on the refugees and forced migration at the Horn of Africa and East Africa.

From the Great Depression in the twentieth century to the Great Recession in the twenty-first, systemic banking crises have been a recurring problem for both developing and developed countries.

This monograph explores the nature of corruption around the world from a geographic perspective.

This study explores corruption in Rwanda and highlights the necessity of developing anti-corruption education as a way of combating corruption.

Throughout history, humanity has been plagued by a myriad of humanitarian crises that seemingly take the form of perpetual human suffering.

This edited volume focuses on the attempts of various Caribbean countries to diversify their economies and societies.

This book applies an interdisciplinary governance assessment framework to assess China's water quality governance from a holistic point of view.

This book introduces an analytic framework constructed upon the iterated Prisoners' Dilemma game to model and analyze transboundary water interactions along the Nile River.

This book discusses how human wellbeing is constructed and transferred intergenerationally in the context of international migration.

This book provides unique insights into the complex issue of water security in South Africa.

This book documents and analyses spatial planning in Ghana, providing a comprehensive and critical discussion of the evolving institutional and legal arrangements that have shaped and defined Ghana's spatial planning system for more than seven decades; the contemporary policy instruments and mechanisms for articulating and implementing policies and proposals at multiple scales; and the formally established procedures for development management.

This book explores how humanitarian interventions for children in difficult circumstances engage in affective commodification of disadvantaged childhoods.

The global history of liberalism has paid too much attention to the West, neglecting the contributions of liberals from colonial nations.

"e;An excellent collection of essays that illustrate how EU member states' wish to implement normatively inspired policies is confronted with the geopolitical realities of today's world.

"e;Lopes brings his rigour, insight, and experience to this timely new book, presenting a compelling rethink of traditional development models in Africa and the need to seize on transformational change to build a sustainable future for the continent.

This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existence of poverty and inequality in vulnerable groups in society.

Aimed at those at the forefront of social ecological thinking, this book presents a practice-oriented process to navigate the complex, interdisciplinary challenges of our time.

This edited volume consists of three parts.

This book engages the topic of xenophobia from both psychological and socio-political approaches.

This volume is a comprehensive overview of the various methods used in contemporary diplomatic practice.

This book examines non-participatory memberships or why states choose not to use the benefits of international institutions to which they belong.

This Brief explores the problem of creating organizational change and a culture of lawfulness within police organizations in the developing world.

This book presents five critical dimensions on relationships, institutions, produc-tion, organisation, and governance from design and systems perspectives for thesystematic transition of unstable and vulnerable communities across the world tosustainable community systems.

This book addresses the challenges threatening the quality of life and well-being of people living in the MENA region.

This book provides a nuanced, complex, comparative analysis of adolescent girls' migration and mobility in the Global South.

This book examines the relations between Nigeria and South Africa and their implications for regional influence across the African continent.

CODESRIA, UNFEMMES and UNESCO, partner in research, the results of which for Senegal are set out in this book.

Contributions collected here discuss the experiences of the citizens of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe, and suggest some answers to the challenges they face.

This book brings together contributions on the challenges of the environment, agriculture and cross-border migrations in Africa; key areas that have become critical for the continent,s development.