Development studies

This book analyses the international development of the census by comparing the history of census taking on all continents and in many countries.

This landmark book is the first of its kind to assess the challenges of African region-building and regional integration across all five African sub-regions and more than five decades of experience, considering both political and economic aspects.

There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa.

This book is a unique collection of advanced research on natural, human-made, and coupled human-natural systems.

By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of society.

This book argues that the global development and security agendas are merging.

This book articulates a practice and theory of education that aims to facilitate the emergence of sustainable peace and conflict-resilient communities in societies plagued by conflict.

Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people.

Recent technological advancements and other related factors and trends are contributing to the production of an astoundingly large and rapidly accelerating collection of data, or 'Big Data'.

The idea that international development aid needs to be better managed and coordinated gained currency in the early 1990s.

Poverty and Prosperity: Tourism in Rural China focuses on tourism and rural community development in the light of Confucianism and Taoism.

This work examines the endeavours of the Arabian Peninsula States - namely the Gulf Cooperation Council member States of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as Jordan and Yemen as prospective GCC members - in establishing national intellectual property protection regimes which both meet their international treaty obligations and are also congruent with their domestic policy objectives.

In contemporary society the idea of 'revolution' seems to have become obsolete.

This book offers an innovative examination of how 'low-technology' industries operate.

This book provides both a retrospective and prospective look at Turkey on the occasion of the country's centenary.

This book argues that China's businesses, and hence China's future economic development, face a huge crisis in that there is a considerable "e;leadership gap"e; in China, with a shortage of competent business leaders, at a time when new leadership skills are required urgently, as China's businesses evolve rapidly and engage ever more with the global economy.

The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies.

This book explores the sex lives of women with disabilities in Nepal, showing that many women suffer more than men despite prevailing disability policies that emphasize nondiscrimination against people with disabilities.

This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

This book attempts to capture the tremendous growth in Chinese investment in the South Asian region in the recent past.

While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny.

Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century.

This book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India.

What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the "e;West"e;?

This book examines the impact and implications of Japan's withdrawal from the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), which came into effect in July 2019.

This book presents stories of sustainability from communities in circumpolar regions as they grapple with environmental, economic and societal changes and challenges.

Disrupting Chinese Journalism provides a rich insight into the disruptive effects of digital technologies - especially smart-phones - on the Chinese print media market.

This timely book offers the first critical examination of World Bank policy reforms and initiatives during the past decade.

Nuaulu people on the Indonesian island of Seram have displayed remarkable linguistic and cultural resilience over a period of 50 years.

The governance of the HIV/AIDS pandemic has come to represent a multi-faceted and complex operation in which the World Bank has set and sustained the global agenda for by the World Bank.

Sustainable entrepreneurship has attracted growing attention in both scholarly and practitioner circles.

Through stories of diverse landscapes from around the world, this book captures human cultures and their land use practices in the environments they inhabit.

The surprisingly high rate of supermarket patronage in low-income areas of Windhoek, Namibia,s capital and largest city, is at odds with conventional wisdom that supermarkets in African cities are primarily patronized by middle and high-income residents and therefore target their neighbourhoods.

This book investigates cases in which national and international activities have gone massively wrong, entailing seriously negative consequences.

When the guns are silenced, those who have survived armed conflict need food, water, shelter, the means to earn a living, and the promise of safety and a return to civil order.

In an urbanizing world, the majority of people live in urban settlements predominantly on the coastal edge.

This book investigates the impact of financial capability and decision making ability on the financial wellbeing of women associated with community based organisations (CBOs).

Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity.

Heralded as opening a new chapter in international development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have led to the use of global goals and quantitative targets as a central instrument for defining global priorities.

This book examines the structures of power and hierarchies within the agrarian political economy in India, with a focus on gender.

This book addresses the changes in education practices, especially basic education, necessitated by the global challenges of climate change and sustainable development and in a context characterized by increasing poverty and inequality, migration and refugees.

This book investigates various experiences of teaching sexual and reproductive health to adolescents with disabilities.

Dr Preston's book, first published in 1982, presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the recent, neo-Marxist, debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis.

In this book Australian economist, Graham Dunkley, explains and critiques the crucial concept of free trade.