Development studies

This book analyses African foundations of gender, education, politics, democracy and institutional development by stimulating theoretical discourses.

This ambitious book provides a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative assessment of Jamaica's ties to the International Monetary Fund, focusing on Jamaica's historical relationship with the IMF and reflecting on the domestic and international discourse surrounding the evolution of this relationship.

This book brings together two important discussions in public health in developing countries: an understanding of the burden of disease, health equity and social determinants of health; and biomathematical models, epidemiological studies and estimation of the direct and indirect cost of disease.

International peacebuilding has reached an impasse.

The global history of liberalism has paid too much attention to the West, neglecting the contributions of liberals from colonial nations.

In recent decades, gold mining has moved into increasingly remote corners of the globe.

This book reviews the social role of universities in their local urban contexts and describes a number of initiatives of major interest in terms of the impact achieved, the range of stakeholders involved, and the significance of the university campus and teachers as agents of change.

This book examines the various ways in which some fragile states in the Global South (or states with limited statehood) have adopted, and adapted to, processes of governance in their quests to address the socialized problems affecting their societies.

This book presents a comprehensive view of the state of social progress worldwide over an entire 50-year period beginning 1970.

This edited volume analyzes African knowledge production and alternative development paths of the region.

This book provides a nuanced understanding of an often neglected aspect of armed conflicts, namely the everyday structures that sustain lives during crises and, specifically, care-work performed by women.

This book provides an overview of governance and development in the Mesoamerican Region (MAR), the design and scope of the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), its relationship to pre-existing regional organisms and its transformation into Proyecto Mesoamerica.

This interdisciplinary book analyzes the nature of child justice administration in Africa, particularly focusing on Nigeria and South Africa.

Des contentieux économiques multicolores opposent la RDC à la plupart de ses partenaires.

This book investigates ways in which global media coverage of conflicts affects the worldviews of the social and cultural values of nationals from the war regions.

This book makes an original contribution to the discussion about agro-food exporting countries' governmental policy.

This volume examines the practicality of achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals in India, and includes policy analyses and statistical assessments of comparative data between India and different countries.

This book analyzes state terror documentation as a form of peaceful resistance to oppressive regimes through substantial research in human rights archives that registered violations perpetrated by Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile.

This book presents detailed accounts of policymaking in contemporary risk communication.

This book engages the topic of xenophobia from both psychological and socio-political approaches.

This book is based on the view that human existence results from the interplay of four dimensions: mind, heart, body and soul, which find their expression in thoughts, emotions, sensations and aspirations.

This study explores corruption in Rwanda and highlights the necessity of developing anti-corruption education as a way of combating corruption.

This book brings a radically new voice to the debate in the field of Chinese politics and labor movement.

This book chronicles the divergent growth trends in car production in Belgium and Spain.

This book focuses on the prospects of fresh market waste management in developing countries.

Drawing on contributions from nineteen prominent scholars, the book reflects on the quest for sustainable development as a source of competitive advantage for organizations and as a global imperative for society.

This book is an interdisciplinary examination of China's new urban development model and the challenges Chinese cities face in the 21st century.

This book examines the effects of policies and practices of microfinance NGOs in empowering rural women in Bangladesh.

This book provides a business-oriented analysis of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

This book builds upon critiques of development in the disability domain by investigating the necessity and implications of theorising disability from the Global South and how development policies and practices pertaining to disabled people in such contexts might be improved by engaging with their voices and agency.

This volume describes African cities in transition, and the economic, socio-political, and environmental challenges resulting from rapid post-colonial urbanization.

This book explains the postcolonial nationalism theory of Morocco focusing on the nation's membership application to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1987 through the initiatives of King Hassan II.

This book examines the relations between Nigeria and South Africa and their implications for regional influence across the African continent.

This book analyzes the concept "e;true federalism"e; to examine whether there are definable dimensions of power-sharing that make 'true federalism.

This book analyses the role of emerging powers as a development assistance providers and the nature of their development cooperation, their behaviour, motives and markedly their changing identities in international relations.

This volume sheds new light on the refugees and forced migration at the Horn of Africa and East Africa.

This book examines the waves of protest that broke out in the 2010s as the collective actions of self-organized publics.

This book explores the evolution of Brazilian foreign relations in the last fifteen years, with a focus on continuities and change.

This book discusses migration and space-spanning social network relationships as normal realities of life in African societies.

This book proposes a holistic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a subject of social sciences.

This book presents a new framework for the 'trade and environment' debate and discusses the ways in which the EU and the WTO address this topic: positive, negative and non-integration.

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

This book studies the relationship between British government and faith groups in its international development agenda within and beyond the context of Brexit.

This book examines Turkey's success within international development cooperation and how this could create a framework for a new international aid architecture.

This book will show that when some countries begin using oil and gas as an instrument of exerting pressure and to realize political goals, energy security becomes synonymous with national security as well as economic security.

This book takes stock of the debate surrounding the institution of presidential term limits in Africa, against the backdrop of global trends toward authoritarianism and the rise of strong men.

"e;It is my expectation that respect for the critical importance of seed sovereignty will in due course be recognised by member states of the United Nations to be as critical to global peace and security as the UN Charter demands in respect of State sovereign equality, justice, human rights and economic and social wellbeing for all peoples.

This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African 'land rush', providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted.

The book explores the ways in which Latin American states are capitalizing or failing to capitalize on the initiatives of China in world affairs.

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).