General Development Textbooks
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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
For a People Centered Development Agenda?
Series: Global Institutions
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) constitute one of the most important global institutions today because of their origins, their ambitions and their effective role in shaping international development efforts. In developing this argument, Sakiko Fukada-Parr analyzes: whether the goals are...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Development Organizations
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Continuing debates over the meaning of development and awareness of the persistence of poverty have resulted in increasing concern over how to ‘do’ development. There are growing numbers of development organizations, undertaking different activities, at different scales, with different motivations,...
Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Re-Envisioning Global Development
A Horizontal Perspective
Series: Critical Issues in Global Politics
Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth,...
Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
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Latin American Development
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Latin America’s diverse political and economic struggles and triumphs have captured the global imagination. The region has been a site of brutal dictators, revolutionary heroes, the Cold War struggle and as a place in which the global debt crisis has had some of its most lasting and...
Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
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Africa
Diversity and Development
For many, Africa is regarded as a place of mystery and negative images, where reports of natural disasters and civil strife dominate media attention, with relatively little publicity given to any of the continent’s more positive attributes. Africa has at last begun to receive the depth of interest...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Theories and Practices of Development
2nd Edition
Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development
Global economic crisis and the implications of global environmental change have led academics and policy-makers to consider how ‘development’ in all parts of the world should be achieved. However, ‘development’ has always been a contested idea. While often presented as a positive process to improve...
Published February 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Geographies of Developing Areas
The Global South in a changing world
This significant new textbook questions traditional conceptions of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean to provide a new understanding of the ‘Global South’, highlighting the rich diversity of regions that are usually only viewed in terms of their ‘problems’. Providing a positive but...
Published April 5th 2009 by Routledge
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Ideas for Development
Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate change, failing ecosystems, poverty, crushing debt and corporate exploitation, the future of our world looks dire...
Published May 2nd 2005 by Routledge