Development studies

Ethnicity, Gender and Social Change explores the social space occupied by both gender and ethnicity.

In a period of about 20 years, Latin America (LATAM) moved from having highly unstable closed economies ruled by authoritarian regimes, to becoming more democratic, stable and open to investment and trade, attracting by 2020 close to 11% of world total foreign direct investment.

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Challenging the traditional treatment of human rights cast in purely legal frameworks, the authors argue that, in order to promote the notion of human rights, its geographies and spatialities must be investigated and be made explicit.

China's spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social compact and thus the political basis for economic growth.

This book analyses the empowerment process of the Bhil as a result of the implementation of the watershed project in Jhabua.

Echoing the famous "e;The Limits to Growth"e; report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report.

Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air quality.

Violence sabotages development, both children's development and the development of the communities and neighbourhoods they rely on.

In 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, world leaders agreed to the Millennium Declaration.

Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance.

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovations?

International observers have lauded Rwanda as an example of an African country taking control of its own development trajectory, and as a market-friendly destination for investment.

This is a study of the evolving relationship between the British colonial state and the copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia, from the early stages of development to decolonization, encompassing depression, wartime mobilization and fundamental changes in the nature and context of colonial rule.

This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century.

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The social, economic and political contexts in which development projects in India are implemented, and consequences to people displaced by such projects, are analyzed in this book.

The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society's future.

Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides a study of the economics of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cultural themes.

This book looks at the drivers in the emergence, development and internal and global expansion of Asian e-commerce businesses.

This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts.

This book brings together a rich selection of up-to-date practical experience of EU regional policy from across Europe.

The aim of this book is to consider theoretically the notion of the global competitiveness of regions, as well as giving attention as to how such competitiveness may be empirically measured.

This book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa.

This book demonstrates how participatory arts-based approaches can help children and youth contribute to peacebuilding within post-conflict contexts and to their communities.

This volume examines developmentality and the archeology of its social practices, unfolding systemic failures that muffle progress.

The Routledge Handbook of Community Development explores community development theory and practice across the world.

Liberation Ecologies brings together some of the most exciting theorists in the field to explore the impact of political ecology in today's developing world.

The sharp rise in mineral use has revived concern about scarcity.

This book presents the principles and the tools for participatory evaluation of sustainable development--growth that does not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

International institutions and structures are crucial to the management of the global environment.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important concept in the last few decades.

Hans Abrahamsson assesses the current world order and structural change, within an historical framework.

This book sheds new light on the limits of adaptation to anthropogenic climate change.

A major target of Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 is the elimination of 'the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases' and combating 'hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases'.

This edited collection investigates what progress has been made in the field of social demography in South Africa since the democratic dispensation in the country.

State of the World 2005 takes a new and deeper look at the theme that has dominated international politics since 9/11: security.

Why, despite an emphasis on 'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so infrequently deliver as planned?

This volume brings together both theoretical and case study based contributions to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Institutions of Higher Education (IHE), presenting an impactful combination of authors from both developing and developed countries.

This book provides a strategic blueprint for understanding how pioneering emerging markets are leveraging the digital economy to challenge global economic hierarchies.

This book examines the everyday state from the perspective of the lived experiences of peripheralized Indigenous tribal peoples in contemporary Tripura, Northeast India.

In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order.

Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in transition economics and comparative economic systems.

This book examines the credit needs and the borrowing behaviour of rural households in China in recent years.

This book explores the second-order effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic development in India.

International migration and workers' remittances have, of late, become a significant economic and social phenomena affecting the fortunes of millions of families in the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

This book examines the international causes of hunger and malnutrition and reveals how critical elements of the global economy heighten food insecurity in the developing world.