Development studies

This book develops an understanding of workplace justice and labour rights in Vietnam from factory workers' voices and their resistance against abuse and exploitation.

When Grameen Bank was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, microfinance was lauded as an important contributor to the economic development of the Global South.

Can China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promote sustainable development, alongside its primary aims of increasing commercial connectivity with China's partners?

The Palgrave Handbook of International Communication and Sustainable Development is a major resource for stakeholders interested in understanding the role of communication in achieving the UN'S Sustainable Development Goals.

Tourism has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world economy.

Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action.

The Chinese in Indonesia form a significant minority of about three percent of the population, and have played a disproportionately important role in the country.

This book critically re-examines the currently dominant paradigm of agricultural development policy from historical and comparative perspectives.

This book examines the changing position of the Developing World within the world system.

This volume documents the life uncertainties revealed by migrants' biographies.

This book explores recent developments in the concept of hybridity through a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing ideas about legal plurality together with the fields of peace, development and cultural studies.

The phenomenal growth and liberalisation of the Indian economy has been the subject of extensive scholarly documentation and competing interpretations.

This book examines suitable approaches to and makes policy suggestions on China's industrial upgrading according to the requirements of the transformation of economic growth.

This book explores the critical linkages between education and empowerment of women, marginalized groups and other disadvantaged sections of society.

The part played by the Brazilian tropical timber industry in deforesting the Amazon region has not been studied very much.

Although it is recognised that Thomas Robert Malthus was wrong when he posited a contradiction between population increase and agricultural growth, there are increasing signs that he could be proved right in the future.

This book is more than just a 'palliative care' guide for the planet - it is about innovation, solutions, competitiveness and profitability.

'The School Food Revolution is an important book that deserves success.

This book features papers addressing a broad range of topics including psychology, religious studies, natural heritage, accounting, business, communication, education and sustainable development.

This book showcases selected conference papers addressing the sustainable future of ASEAN from the perspectives of science and technology disciplines.

The Lake Chilwa Basin Climate Change Adaptation Programme was a seven-year research and development programme in Malawi that concluded in March 2017.

Air Transport and Regional Development Methodologies is one of three interconnected books related to a four-year European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action established in 2015.

In this challenging work, the author argues that the goal of any food system should not simply be to provide the cheapest calories possible.

The economic and social impact of Covid-19 pandemic both on developing and developed countries has been significant.

Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard against the social forces that can derail good public policies.

'Sound and solid case studies on vulnerability and adaptation have been woefully lacking in the international discourse on climate change.

This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the evolution of institutions and environments.

This book highlights the latest advances in the science and practice of using ecosystem services to inform decisions for economic development in the context of the developing countries.

This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the age of international development (1945-1975).

An economy low in carbon and high in life satisfaction will require thousands, if not millions of exceptional leaders.

How do theatre and development partnerships operate?

Food, water and energy form some of the basic elements of sustainability considerations.

The mobility of people, objects, information, ideas, services, and capital has reached levels unprecedented in human history.

The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "e;great game.

It is well-established that every organization is founded with a specific purpose and goals.

This book explores Nigeria's progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, presenting key country-specific lessons, as well as providing innovative solutions and practices which are transferrable to other emerging economies.

Imperialism has resurfaced as an area of scholarly study in recent years, particularly among those concerned with political economy and international relations.

Discussion over celebrity engagement is often limited to theoretical critique or normative name-calling, without much grounded research into what it is that celebrities are doing, the same or differently throughout the world.

In natural resource management research, best practice implies the participation of community members, research or development teams and other stakeholders to jointly identify research and development parameters and contribute to decision making.

In the rich tradition of mobile communication studies and new media, this volume examines how mobile technologies are being embraced by Indigenous people all over the world.

Allan and Anne Findlay argue that a nation's human population is a vital resource in the development process.

This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence spatial inequality in metropolitan regions.

This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian.

This book lays out the different and complex dimensions of urbanisation in India.

Originally published in 1985, Industrialization and Urbanization in Latin America focuses on the process of industrialisation in Latin America.

Since 2001, India has gained new attention as an emerging world power with a rapidly growing economy, a world-class science and technology sector, and a huge English-speaking labor pool.

China has experienced over a quarter century of rapid economic growth, which has had a phenomenal impact on the global economy.

This book explores the links between religion, states, social welfare and social change in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

The Pergau dam in Malaysia was the most controversial project in the history of British aid.