Development studies

Bringing together informed analyses on the challenges of critical skill shortages (CSS) in the Asia-Pacific region, this book provides 14 country reports to discuss the critical jobs and skills to achieve long-term policies and approaches towards realising the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs).

This book explores the potential responsibilities to respect, protect and fulfill international human rights law (IHRL) of a particular class of non-state actors: non-governmental organizations (NGOs).

The purpose of this book is to understand the rise, future and implications of two important new kinds of "e;integrity warriors"e; - official anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) and anti-corruption NGOs - and to locate them in a wider context and history of anti-corruption activity.

This handbook explores the political economy and governance of the Americas, placing particular emphasis on collective and intertwined experiences.

This book examines the correlations between language behaviour and happiness amongst communities of migrants, and addresses the overarching question of whether language can affect wellbeing.

Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011.

This book addresses the complex events and unexpected outcomes of military intervention by the United States and its allies in Iraq in 2003.

Explores how much and what the World Bank and the United Nations can really be expected to achieve.

Based on extensive research conducted in Colombia since 2009, this book addresses the connection between land grabbing and agrarian capitalism, as well as the unfulfilled promises of peace and justice.

Unlike many studies of social attitudes, which are based on large scale quantitative surveys, or which focus on the attitude of elites, this book considers the views of ordinary people, and is based on in-depth, qualitative interviews.

Current and expanding human activities are moving us towards ever deeper unsustainability.

This book is devoted to go beyond the traditional contests and traditional theoretical framework to a new combination of domestic, regional, global visions of China's Opening-up.

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we are organized and how we influence each other and wield power.

This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization - acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008-09 - on the labour force, especially in the developing countries.

This book examines post-secession and post-transition state building in Somaliland, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan.

This volume, first published in 1982, is a collection of original essays written to honour Professor W.

Religion has been excluded from development studies for decades.

This book presents a methodology for the design, construction, monitoring, optimization, and post-occupancy evaluation of net-zero and positive-energy communities based on the experiences gained in the EU Horizon 2020 ZERO-PLUS project.

This book provides a timely and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcoming of efforts to move beyond market democracy in Bolivia and Venezuela.

The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity conservation initiatives, regional peace and integration, and the sustainable socio-economic development of rural communities.

Over the 20th century, Morocco has become one of the world's major emigration countries.

This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal set of seventeen goals and 169 targets, with accompanying indicators, which were agreed by UN member states to frame their policy agendas for the fifteen-year period from 2015 to 2030.

Microfinance has become an important component of development, poverty reduction and economic regeneration strategy around the world.

A little known and under-appreciated area in criminology is knowledge about the extent, pattern, and costs of crime committed against agriculture.

This book examines the recycling infrastructure in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

In 1997, Mexico launched a new incentive-based poverty reduction program to enhance the human capital of those living in extreme poverty.

When we work or play through digital technologies we also live in them.

Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, and agribusiness sectors.

This book explores the notion of rurality and how it is used and produced in various contexts, including within populist politics which derives their legitimacy from the rural-urban divide.

Over six billion dollars in developmental assistance is funneled annually through non-governmental organizations (NGOs), yet little is understood about the nature of their relationship with communities and the real impact of their work.

This book is based on detailed empirical research conducted to analyse the communication dissemination approach applied to the world's largest employment guarantee program MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act).

This book brings together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political concerns in post-colonial Africa.

The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary development studies.

This work comes at an important time of global crisis and change, where the world is ravaged by natural disasters, wars and poverty.

The creative economy is one of the world's most dynamic sectors.

This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called 'recovery phase' in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.

Critical of the economic and political power relations in contemporary India, this book is written from the vantagepoint of the working masses whose basic economic and democratic rights remain unmet.

This book addresses the overarching theme of promoting inclusive and sustainable development through twelve contributions that discuss perspectives from emerging economies and policies for a better world.

Originally published in 2013, Peacebuilding and National Ownership in Timor-Leste is an insightful, analytical presentation of developments that took place in Timor-Leste from July 2002 to September 2006.

This book tackles the terms under which a knowledge-based society can indefinitely improve while pursuing an eco-economic steady state.

This book takes the reader into some of the most intransigent social, economic, and political issues that impact achieving sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.

The book's broad theme is that the evolution of the power to control labour flows among different territorial jurisdictions was of major importance in the formation of a system of states.

This book argues that mainstream economics cannot explain the underdevelopment and poverty of Nepal, neither can it be explained in terms of economics alone nor capital inadequacy even, as is conventionally believed.

Large-scale investments in fragile states - in Latin America, Africa, the former Soviet Union and Asia - become magnets for conflict, which undermines business, development and security.

Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security.

After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums.

Provides an analysis of some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades, helping us to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today.