Development studies

Provides unique reflections on the capability approach and its relevance to new human development policies and political liberalism.

This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development

Stimulating growth through adjusting macroeconomic conditions remains the principal policy responses to pressing problems of unemployment, poverty and environmental degradation.

The introduction of Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has traced a path for private and public entities interested in pursuing sustainable development.

Low external-input technology (or LEIT) is an increasingly prominent subject in discussions of sustainable agriculture.

This book provides a step-by-step, insiders' guide on how to lobby and engage successfully at the United Nations.

The current coronavirus pandemic fundamentally reshapes existing debates and processes in international development.

Assessing both the macro- and micro-economic levels of the contemporary African Debt Crisis, this book, first published in 1989, begins by looking at the origins of the world debt crisis, and then looks closely at the problem as it affects Sub-Saharan Africa.

Although microcredit programmes have long been considered efficient development tools, many forms of debt-induced distress have emerged in their wake.

This book analyzes the economics of the food industry at every stage between the farm gate and the kitchen counter.

This book provides a much-needed classroom text in international studies that is genuinely interdisciplinary in its approach.

At the turn of the millennium, the unanimous adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the United Nations General Assembly marked a new chapter in international development.

The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods.

This book combines mobilities research with feminist and queer studies offering new perspectives on mobility justice.

This book argues that there is a need to develop greater indigenous-led intergenerational resilience in order to meet the challenges posed by contemporary crises of climate change, cultural clashes, and adversity.

Integrating Amartya Sen's approach with the literature on place-based territorial development processes, this book recognises the interplay between the evolution of local development systems and the expansion of individual and collective capabilities.

The European Union has launched an important debate on the future of the EU budget from 2013.

This book explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing critical humanitarian challenges.

Sustainable project management is a new school of management thought and a growing trend yet there is a scarcity of research on the linkage between individual PM methodologies and sustainability in projects.

This book examines a rapidly emerging new topic in urban settlement patterns: the role of shrinking cities.

The World Health Organization defines health inequities as differences in health outcomes that are systematic, avoidable, and unjust; and the result of poor social policies, unfair economic arrangements, and bad politics.

This book, first published in 1977, attempts to show Mao Tse-tung in his relationship with the Chinese people.

This book analyses the role of emerging powers as a development assistance providers and the nature of their development cooperation, their behaviour, motives and markedly their changing identities in international relations.

Rural Development in Practice focuses on the evolving nature of rural development in the Global South.

The life sciences is an industrial sector that covers the development of biological products and the use of biological processes in the production of goods, services and energy.

In today's society we increasingly create and consume written content and images.

This book explores the crucial role of public acceptance in advancing green growth, decarbonization, and rapid advancements of renewable energy technologies.

Latin American Transnational Children and Youth focuses on understanding young people's connection to nature and place within a transnational and Latin American context.

Making Climate Compatible Development Happen introduces readers to the concept of climate compatible development (CCD) through exploring what it might look like, how it could be achieved in practice and identifying challenges and dilemmas raised by CCD.

This book examines Africa-Europe relationships and intra-Africa relationships vis-a-vis migration.

This edited book presents case-studies and reflections on the role of languages and their analytic study in development practices across four regions: Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Pacific.

This book presents an analysis of the concepts of female empowerment and resilience against violence in the informal entertainment and sex industries.

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

This Volume of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law explores emerging trends and key developments in international economic law.

This study traces the welfare regimes of Mauritius and South Africa from the early 20th century focusing on the historical circumstances that gave rise to the dominance of state-funded old-age pensions within their respective welfare frameworks.

Managing Sustainable Tourism tackles the tough issues within the tourism industry, such as impacts on the natural and built environment and concerns for the history, heritage, and culture of local communities to provide answers that produce positive and quality economic growth for the tourism industry.

A UN report presented to the UN Human Rights Council in 2017 recognized that, "e;although pesticide use has been correlated with a rise in food production, it has had catastrophic impacts"e; on human health and the environment.

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry, illustrating key principles that will secure higher quality, more sustainable design in accessible, jargon-free language.

This book aims to re-vision economics by taking a Jungian view of the recent global economic crisis of the 2010s, focusing on Greece's challenging experience in particular.

In the era of globalization many minority populations are subject to marginalization and expulsion from their traditional habitats due to rapid economic restructuring and changing politico-spatial relations.

This book examines human rights as political battlefields, spaces that are undergoing constant changes in which political conflicts are expressed by a translation process within networks of interactions.

Over the last decade, the United States' position as the world's most powerful state has appeared increasingly unstable.

The book presents the experiences, complexities, and contradictions of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Brazil so far.

This book investigates the pervasive problem of corruption across the Middle East and North Africa.

This book originates from a comparative research project involving extensive collection and analysis of primary and secondary materials (scholarly literature, statistical data, and interviews with key actors) on socioeconomic outcomes of the global financial crisis in all major world regions during the last years.

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 ninth annual edition of Vital Signs takes the world's pulse by compiling a wide-ranging collection of trends that identify both problems and progress in the quest for a sustainable society.

The struggle over land has been the central issue in Zimbabwe ever since white settlers began to carve out large farms over a century ago.

What does cultural analysis have to offer development studies?