Development studies

Energy poverty is a crippling component of the poverty trap that consigns victims to lives of drudgery and subsistence.

Seen as a successful 'emerging economy', Brazil walks tall on the world stage and its voice is growing louder.

Human development may encompass social, cultural and spiritual facets as well as economic improvement, and development organizations are beginning to recognize this fact.

In spite of the current wave of globalization, the majority of the world's people remain poor, excluded from economic development.

How do we know whether our development programmes are reducing poverty and empowering the most vulnerable people?

El número de personas afectadas por desastres va en aumento, y con él las expectativas que los donantes, el público general y las poblaciones afectadas tienen puestas en las organizaciones humanitarias.

Training for Transformation is an approach to community organization encompassed in three books which enables people to 'read their reality and write their own history' using a combination of group processes, socio-economic analysis and organizational development processes.

In recent years, multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) have become popular for tackling the complex challenges of sustainable development.

When citizens band together in a civil society organization to effect change for the better, they can be a tremendous force for good.

Food Regimes and Agrarian Questions extends the original conception of the food regime, formulated by Harriet Friedmann and Philip McMichael, detailing new dimensions of the succession of imperial, intensive and corporate food regimes.

The processes of international development often mean that beneficiaries have pre-designed programmes imposed upon them.

Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged.

Access to modern energy services remains low or non-existent for approximately 2.

Huge levels of aid are spent on reconstructing housing after disasters.

Feminists in Development Organizations arises from a collaborative project of feminists working inside the head offices of multilateral organizations, government aid agencies and international NGOs.

Understanding and demonstrating the effectiveness of efforts to improve the lives of those living in poverty is an essential part of international development practice.

It has long been recognized that agricultural research should involve the farmers themselves.

As climate becomes less predictable and extreme weather events become more frequent, there is an urgent need for support that will help communities to prepare and adapt to changing conditions.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, disease outbreaks as well as conflicts are all crises that result in death as well as profound disruption to those left behind, and to those communities who shelter them.

What assistance do disaster-affected communities need?

International development interventions often fail because development experts assume that our world is linear and straightforward when in reality it is complex, highly dynamic and unpredictable.

International NGOs are increasingly under pressure from governments and the public to demonstrate evidence of impact and positive results.

A remarkable novel written by the Brazilian journalist Bernardo Kucinski.

Wealth-ranking is a participatory tool enabling people to group their fellows into wealth bands, and thus identify the very poor.

Renewable energy is becoming crucially important, as concern over burning fossil fuels is increasing and the price of oil continues to rise.

Poor people in developing countries need water for many purposes: for drinking, bathing, irrigating vegetable gardens, and watering livestock.

Local people can generate their own numbers and the statistics that result are powerful for themselves and can influence policy.

Do we use obscure or fashionable words to impress our colleagues or win research proposals?

Why is it that so many organizations, seeking to do good in the world, miss opportunities to do so - and indeed sometimes exacerbate the very problem they seek to address?

A safe, adequate water supply within easy reach is still a dream for many people living in rural Africa.

As the number of people affected by disasters has risen, so have the expectations placed on humanitarian agencies by donors, the public and the affected populations themselves.

This book provides new empirical evidence on access to and use of ICTs and their effect on poor households in East African and Southern African countries.

La pauvreté énergétique est un élément accablant du piège de la pauvreté qui condamne les personnes qui en sont victimes à vivre une vie de corvées et d'activités de subsistance.

Smallholder farmers, women earners, young job-seekers, people with disability and the entrenched poor often struggle to sustain themselves or contribute to the wellbeing of their households.

From Infrastructure to Services reveals important breakthroughs in country-led and country-wide monitoring of rural and small towns water supplies; ICT for monitoring sustainable service delivery; monitoring the finance needed for service delivery; monitoring for sanitation and hygiene; and building coherence in global-regional-national monitoring.

Alors que le nombre de personnes touchées par des catastrophes augmente, il en va de même pour les attentes placées dans les organisations humanitaires par les bailleurs de fonds, le public et les populations touchées.

Great strides have been made in improving sanitation in many developing countries.

Enthusiasm amongst international development agencies about harnessing the potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for development has generated questionning of the impact and sustainability of such interventions.

This book provides new empirical evidence on access to and use of ICTs and their effect on poor households in East African and Southern African countries.

Access to modern energy services remains low or non-existent for approximately 2.

Savings Groups reach those rarely served by mainstream financial institutions.

Technology underpins human development.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands.

Provides everyday leaders with evergreen principles that can help them avoid mistakes when helping, overcome challenges, and achieve lasting impacts at the global level.

In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months.

Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of ungovernable spaces.