Development studies

This book aims at presenting and assessing imperialism as a theoretical concept.

This book empirically discusses recent struggles over land and mining, exploring state-society relations conflicts on various scales.

Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery.

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will not only be Africa's largest dam, but it is also essential for future cooperation and development in the Nile River Basin and East African region.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the patterns of university and academics' societal engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), considering knowledge production and the resulting outputs, outcomes, and benefits that are yielded from such engagement for society.

Structural adjustment programmes are the largest single cause of increased poverty, inequality and hunger in developing countries.

First published in 1989.

This book argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries.

Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor.

This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of 'structural adjustment programmes the economic reform policies required by the World Bank and IMF as part of their lending operations with borrowing countries.

This book delves into the intricate interplay between climate change and the dynamic shifts in global power structures, focusing on the expanded BRICS.

Housing is crucial to the quality of life and wellbeing for individuals and familes, but the availability of adequate or affordable housing also plays a vital role in community economic development.

Based on new datasets, this book presents an economic history of Indonesia.

This volume explores the complexities of governance, law, and politics in India's Scheduled Areas.

In this clear and intelligent book, Thomas Lines examines the role that global policies have played in creating a crisis of rural poverty.

This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses.

This ninth annual edition of Vital Signs takes the world's pulse by compiling a wide-ranging collection of trends that identify both problems and progress in the quest for a sustainable society.

The vast majority of the world's population lives on or near the coast.

Canadian regional development today involves multiple actors operating within nested scales from local to national and even international levels.

The environment and its management has been, and continues to be a very topical issue.

This book is a compendium of various applications and current progress in a powerful technology known as the Internet of Things (IoT).

This book presents a comprehensive, systematic analysis of Russia- Iran relations in the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications.

Two major trends are currently challenging the sustainability of human civilization: extreme inequality and the ecological crisis.

Drawing on years of research experience and keen observations of the triumphs and problems in China's cities, the authors provide a foundational understanding of China's urbanization and cities that is grounded in history and geography and challenges readers to consider Chinese urbanization through multiple disciplinary and thematic lenses.

The Power of New Urban Tourism explores new forms of tourism in urban areas with their social, political, cultural, architectural and economic implications.

This thoroughly revised second edition covers the major areas of research, theory, and practical application in health communication.

A valuable interdisciplinary resource examining the concept and effectiveness of CSR as a tool for sustainable development in emerging markets.

This volume focuses on the evolution of public policy and the role of agenda setting with regard to policymaking in countries of the Global South.

This title was first published in 1975: The question of development finance in underdeveloped countries is ultimately one of the use of the surplus: how can a significant part of that share of national income above a nation's culturally determined subsistence requirem ents be channeled into investment ?

Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights.

Protected areas and conservation policies ore usually established with only local nature and wildlife in mind.

This book offers the very first collaborative analysis of various conditions and aspects of developmental citizenship in China and its practical and ideological implications for Chinese post-socialism.

This volume focuses on the directions that African cultural studies has taken over the years and covers the following central themes: contemporary issues in African cultural studies; Gender and the making of identity; the dual discourses of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism; problematizing the African diaspora and methodology and African cultural studies.

Developmental Macroeconomics: Access to Demand, the Exchange Rate and Growth offers a new approach to development economics and macroeconomics.

This book addresses the ethical and practical issues at stake in the reconciliation of Indigenous and non-indigenous communities.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.

Formalising employment is a desirable policy goal, but how it is done matters greatly, especially for women workers.

Until recently, the concept of Buen Vivir has only been loosely articulated by practising communities and in progressive policy in countries like Ecuador.

This volume attempts to insert itself within the larger discussion of Africa in the twenty-first century, especially within the realm of world politics.

The book describes the alliance, since the mid-1980s, of the entrepreneurs of the Chinese diaspora with the new locally based industrialisation that reform in China has allowed to flourish in its townships and villages.

Within the context of the 2009 Kampala Convention, this book examines how a balance can be struck between the imperative of development projects and the rights of persons likely to be displaced in Africa.

China suffers frequently from many types of natural disasters, which have affected the lives of many millions of Chinese.

In this theoretically and empirically engaging volume, the contributors demonstrate that despite the dynamism of India's software industry and the rhetorical flourishes of industry leaders, at present, the benefits of the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) touch only the hundreds of thousands with the right skills and access.

This unique collection explores the different organizational forms, strategies and tactics that activists adopt.

First published in 1978, Development Economics in Action is a renowned study of policies in Ghana, one of Africa's most closely watched economies.

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

Various theories have been put forward as to why business and industry develops in clusters and despite good work being carried out on path dependence and dynamics, this is still very much an emerging topic in the social sciences.