Development studies

The Chinese government has frequently been criticized for propping up anti-democratic governments.

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.

Macroeconomics in Context lays out the principles of macroeconomics in a manner that is thorough, up to date, and relevant to students.

First published in 1978, Development Economics in Action is a renowned study of policies in Ghana, one of Africa's most closely watched economies.

The book examines the well-established field of 'law and development' and asks whether the concept of development and discourses on law and development have outlived their usefulness.

What do we want from economic growth?

Growing concerns about the impacts of climate change and dependence on fossil fuels have intensified interest in bioenergy from sugar cane and other crops, highlighting important links between energy, environment and development goals.

This book explores migration experiences of African families across two generations in Britain, France and South Africa.

This book overcomes the dichotomies, generalizations and empirical shortcomings that surround the understanding of return migration within the migration-development-peace-building nexus.

This book presents essential insights on the interaction between rising risks and raising the bar for resilience during the climate crisis.

This book offers a comparative study of state strategies in relation to urban redevelopment projects associated with sports mega-events in Brazil, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

With deep thought and inspiring examples, this updated book engages readers by increasing their understanding and awareness of what sustainability means conceptually, practically, personally, and professionally.

China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was a highly significant event both for China and for the wider world.

The fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of contemporary Russian capitalism are often all too often read as a juncture with the past.

This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture.

There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management.

This book analyzes contemporary critiques of political economy and highlights the challenges to rethinking contemporary discourses and practices.

Imagined Regional Communities provides an original approach to thinking about the processes of regional integration.

First published in 1998, this book tells the story, from various viewpoints, of the building of local capacity to carry forward the economic and social transition process which started in the late 1980s.

Uganda is home to 1.

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

This book argues that it is time to step back and reassess the anti-corruption movement, which despite its many opportunities and great resources has ended up with a track record that is indifferent at best.

Different Places, Different Voices challenges Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in its analysis of the changing lives of women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania.

Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety.

Since the 1970s, Turkey has faced some of the most serious crises since the Republic was established in 1923.

Household vulnerability to weather shocks and changing climatic conditions has become a major concern in developing countries.

The recent escalation of world food prices - particularly for cereals - prompted mass public indignation and demonstrations in many countries, from the price of tortilla flour in Mexico to that of rice in the Philippines and pasta in Italy.

This volume seeks to analyse the emerging wave of data journalism in the Global South.

Black Africa presents political, economic and social data for 41 black African nations.

This book focuses on critical approaches to the state and state theory in the Global South.

The Turning Point in Africa (1982) is a significant study of British colonial policy towards tropical Africa during a critical decade, from the complacent trusteeship of the inter-war years to the strategy of decolonization inaugurated after the Second World War.

This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects - namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative 'Southern' post-colonial and post-structuralist projects.

The first book ever to examine the links between hunger and race, The Color of Hunger probes the contemporary and historical reasons hunger is concentrated among people of color, both domestically and globally.

Rural crime has long been overlooked in the field of crime prevention.

Most women giving birth in rural communities throughout the Third World cannot enjoy the 'benefits' of modern medical assistance.

African Philosophy and Environmental Conservation is about the unconcern for, and marginalisation of, the environment in African philosophy.

This book provides a contemporary overview of the social-ecological and economic vulnerabilities that produce food and nutrition insecurity in various small island contexts, including both high islands and atolls, from the Pacific to the Caribbean.

Originally published in 1990, this volume is a comprehensive study of United States foreign aid allocation from 1961-1983 and the significance it has for US Foreign Policy as a whole.

This book follows the journeys of those fleeing war, poverty or political crises, risking their lives as they attempt to find sanctuary in Europe.

This book looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants globally who bear disproportionate burdens of health disparities.

This book employs a political ecology lens to unravel how industrial crops catalyse ecological, agrarian, socioeconomic, and institutional transformation.

This report compares the business operations of over 2,000 South Africans and refugees in the urban informal economy and systematically dispels some of the myths that have grown up around their activities.

This book examines the perception of Africa in the global system, tracing Africa's transition from a "e;problem"e; to be solved into an agent with a rising voice in the world.

Impact of liberalization on informality has been a subject of intense debate for many years and the major issue that has come up is whether liberalization helps to grow informal sector and informality in the economy or it is an obstruction for informal sector's growth.

In recent years, policy makers have given much credence to the role of entrepreneurship in the transformation of regions.

The Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies is a landmark volume that offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of entrepreneurship in developing countries.

Cities, the world over, are increasingly recognised to be both a principal source of the environmental and social sustainability challenges facing contemporary society and a critical site for addressing these challenges.

This book investigates the challenges being experienced in the traditional procurement methods for road infrastructure in developing countries and explores the features of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) as an alternative procurement method with the potential of achieving a more sustainable highway network in Nigeria and other developing countries of Africa.