Development studies

This book brings together a leading team of international experts in arts and global development to showcase effective practice and to explore how this vibrant interdisciplinary field has developed and what the latest research can teach us.

This book addresses the underexposed political dimensions of bioeconomy promotion.

Investigating the capacity of sport to act both as a conduit for traditional development assistance activities and as an agent for change in its own right, this book argues that sport can contribute to the development process, particularly where traditional development approaches have difficulty in engaging with communities.

Ce livre explore les mécanismes fondamentaux de choix, de gestion et d’évaluation des politiques publiques en Afrique, en tenant compte des défis et opportunités propres au continent.

In the year 2000, the international community agreed to a framework to address global poverty.

This book describes how a program of values deliberations--sustained group reflections on local values, aspirations, beliefs and experiences, blending with discussions of how to understand and to realize human rights--led to individual and collective empowerment in communities in rural Senegal.

This book examines the nature of conflict in Africa vis-a-vis the African Union (AU) peace and security architecture in Africa.

The book  establishes a philosophical base for the economic principles of Irish republicanism in the 21st century.

This book attempts to document and analyse the complicated role new media play in the adaptation and integration of China's new generation of migrant workers.

The OECD Regional Outlook 2011 provides an overview of the main developments in performance among OECD regions and the challenges for regional policy after the crisis.

Colonial Sequence 1930-1949 (1967) presents a valuable body of evidence for the enquiry into Britain's colonial actions, written at a time when Britain was retreating from empire.

First published in 1972, this is a book of essays offered in honour of Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, the distinguished economist whose career started in mid-1920s Vienna and subsequently spanned Europe, Britain, the USA and many of the less developed countries of the world.

This book examines the various stages of China's development, in the economic, social, and political fields, relating theories and models of development to what is actually occurring in China, and discussing how China's development is likely to progress going forward.

This book uses perceptions and experiences of Qur'anic schools in West Africa to outline a much-needed postsecular approach, reconsidering the place of Islamic education within African decolonial debates about educational pluralism, and the contributions of religious perspectives in academic and international development spaces.

While much has been written about rural migrant workers' experiences in the big cities, population movements into China's vast network of towns and small cities has been largely neglected.

Child Hunger and Human Rights: International Governance applies the human rights theory of legal obligation to the problem of child malnutrition and investigates whether duty-bearers have fulfilled their obligations to protect, respect and provide.

Europe's economic and political interests in Latin America have been growing steadily in the past decade.

Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society.

AI in Hospital Administration: Revolutionizing Healthcare is a groundbreaking book that explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in hospital administration and its impact on revolutionizing healthcare.

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

Modernity promised control over nature through science, material abundance through technology and effective government through rational, social organization.

This book assesses the interconnectedness of democracy and economic development.

This book debunks the foundations of contemporary government-led development policy.

Exploring the phenomenon of diffusion of legal norms accompanying economic globalisation in developing countries, this book examines the blanket imposition of standard regulatory templates, maintaining that every jurisdiction requires customised legal solutions.

Over the past few decades, there has been a rapid proliferation of eGovernance for Development projects.

The problem of escalating population displacement demands global attention and country co-ordination.

This book explains the dynamics behind the economic transformation from the colonial era to the post-independence period in Indonesia and Vietnam.

Despite the conventional wisdom that affordable housing, either in the form of homeownership or through access to rental units, has beneficial effects for households, society, and the economy more broadly, there is a noteworthy lack of empirical studies of housing development and construction companies or building societies that actively work to supply this asset class in the economy.

This book presents the results of a joint survey conducted as of the tenth anniversary of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake, by an international research collaboration consisting of researchers representing the major universities affected by recent mega-disasters in Asia, namely, the research group at Kobe University, Japan which has folllowed up ten year recovery process from the 2011 tsunami disaster in East Japan,  the research group at the Graduate Program in Disaster Science, Syiah Kuala University in Aceh, Indonesia on the long-term recovery of 17 years after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the research group at the Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction of Sichuan University, China focusing on the  recovery status of 13 years after the 2008 Sichuan (Wenchuan) Earthquake; and the research group at the National College of Public Administration and Governance of University of the Philippines, on the rcovery from the 2013 Typhoon Yolanda that hit the Philippines.

The theme of this work, first published in 1985, is the exchange between issues of development and problems of social theory.

This interdisciplinary book analyzes the nature of child justice administration in Africa, particularly focusing on Nigeria and South Africa.

Primary health care (PHC) began as a solution to problems in the developing world and is coming to be seen as a profound challenge to medical attitudes the world over.

The main focus of this book is to help better understand the multidimensionality and complexity of population displacement and the role that reconstruction and recovery knowledge and practice play in this regard.

Tribal communities in western India, as elsewhere in the country, have been facing increasing marginalisation and poverty.

Fixing Broken Cities explores the planning, execution, and impact of urban repopulation and investment strategies that were launched in the wake of two crises: late twentieth-century economic disinvestment and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System (1992) examines in detail the collapse of the Soviet economic system, and is set in its political context, both international and domestic.

This book studies how Development-Induced Displacement (DID) radically restructures gender relations in indigenous tribal societies.

To date, geography has not yet carved out a disciplinary niche within the diffuse domain that constitutes global health.

In The Green Leap to an Inclusive Economy, two leading thinkers, Stuart L.

This innovative Atlas of Africa, by the Agence Francaise de Developpement, offers comprehensive insights into contemporary Africa through the use of full-colour maps, charts, graphics and text which demonstrate and explain Africa's growing importance in the world and its demographic, economic, social and environmental transformation, while also outlining the challenges that the continent faces.

This book provides a bold vision and roadmap for creating great places.

This book looks to cover the issues related to advances in higher education for sustainable development goals.

Depuis près d'un siècle, le dollar domine les échanges des biens, des services, des capitaux et… des monnaies.

In 2007, for the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population lived in cities.

Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban poverty, among others, within the context of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa.

The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects.

The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s.

Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident.

Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture.

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.