Development studies

This book takes an insider perspective of the psychological issues of creating policy.

The Managed Body productively complicates 'menstrual hygiene management' (MHM)-a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South.

This volume examines the ways in which the socio-economic elites of the region have transformed and expanded the material bases of their power from the inception of neo-liberal policies in the 1970s through to the so-called progressive 'pink tide' governments of the past two decades.

This volume presents a broad sweep of modern economic history underpinning aid, trade, development and globalization in the last half century and the salient challenges facing the global community today.

This book examines how the Calais Jungle posed and addressed the European Question.

This book presents new perspectives on current development policy against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic.

This book examines development aid for climate change adaptation.

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.

This book documents how Israel emerged as one of the world's leading centers of high technology over the last three decades and the impact that it has had, or failed to have, on the wider economy and politics.

This book explores the potential of Pan-African thought in contributing to advancing psychological research, theory and practice.

This volume analyses many of the real development challenges confronting the African continent, presenting fresh and current objective examinations, narratives, interpretations and pathways to the continent's development.

This study of taxation in Latin America takes a novel approach to the subject, using a framework that posits three dimensions for studying taxes-historical, relational, and transnational.

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.

Although there is growing interest in the role of religion in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Agenda 2030, very few studies have focused on the contributions of interfaith networks.

This book focuses on interregional relations across the Atlantic and the possible evolution of a new, distinctive Atlantic space for international relations.

This Briefs advances a theoretical approach that recognizes social movements as contingent enterprises.

This edited collection provides a comprehensive examination of multidimensional poverty for a wide variety of economies and societies, with a general focus on multidimensional poverty in developed countries, where poverty is often overlooked.

This book considers how public sector institutions can be transformed to better support sustainable development by exploring the concept of green inside activism and its importance for institutional change.

This book is a critical-cultural evaluation of educational technology adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa, including projects such as the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child).

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies.

This textbook introduces political ecology as an interdisciplinary approach to critically examine land and environmental issues.

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for regional cooperation and development in South Asia.

This book provides an innovative re-examination of the 'recovery' phase of a disaster by one of the UK's most experienced disaster management specialists.

This book examines the meaning, structure, practices and symbolism of corruption in relationship to European Union structural funding in Romania.

The focus of this volume is on the role of the developmental state in a situation in which a series of major crises affects the (semi-) periphery of the global economy.

This book addresses the paradox between preponderance of hunger in a continent that is well endowed with fertile agricultural land, plenty of fresh water and a vibrant labor force.

This book provides a governance perspective on China's digital authoritarianism by examining the political and institutional dynamics of the country's internet sector in a historical context.

Where can one get a synthesis of research findings on urban development planning in Africa?

Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence.

This book explores the power of words in post-Peace El Salvador and Guatemala-their violent and equally liberating power.

This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects - namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative 'Southern' post-colonial and post-structuralist projects.

This book discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places.

The Nigerian state has been oil-rich for decades, and yet perennially incapable of converting its oil resources into wealth for ordinary Nigerians.

This book critically engages with how formal and informal mechanisms of governance are used across the world.

La production mondiale de gaz naturel, ainsi que sa part dans la demande globale d'énergie, n'a cessé d'augmenter ces deux dernières décennies.

This book focuses on ethnic journalism in the Global South, approaching it from two angles: as a professional area and as a social mission.

This book examines how and why local communities have been neglected in development initiatives in South Asia, focusing on Sri Lanka, and assesses the significant support from NGOs in increasing the capacity of local government and in promoting local development.

This book examines the promises as well as the challenges the demographic dividend brings to sub-Saharan Africa as fertility rates in the region fall and the labor force grows.

This book investigates indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) in sub-Saharan Africa, thereby highlighting its role in facilitating adaptation to climate variability and change, and also demystifying the challenges that prevent it from being integrated with scientific knowledge in climate governance schemes.

This timely monograph focuses on India and Brazil's use of compulsory licensing, one of the most significant and controversial TRIPS flexibilities.

This book discusses aspects of policy and techno-economic analysis of renewable energy in developing countries.

This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order.

Explaining the determinants of China and India's development cooperation in Africa cannot be achieved in simple terms.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

This book analyzes the motivations of the Chinese authorities to pursue the international sporting events.

Ensuring optimal diets and nutrition for the global population is a grand challenge fraught with many contentious issues.

This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics.

This book interrogates the international child protection regime, with a particular focus on its weaknesses and failures.

This book presents a theory of economic integration in developing regions, where the level of intraregional economic interdependence is low and the dependence on extra-regional economic relations is high.

This book analyses the conflicts that emerged from the Brazilian labour movement's active participation in a rapidly changing political environment, particularly in the context of the coming to power of a party with strong roots in the labour movement.