Development Policy and Politics Further Reading
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Geopolitics and Development
The focus of the book is both historical and contemporary, exploring the geopolitical enframing and imagination of development in key historical junctures such as the Cold War, the end of empire and the War on Terror but also examining what the rise of new state donors such as China, Brazil and...
To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge
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International Aid and the Making of a Better World
Reflexive Practice
Series: Rethinking Development
The testing question for international development aid is how to support positive change and help prevent that which is bad. Rosalind Eyben, scholar-activist and lifelong development practitioner, seeks to answer that question through a vivid insight into the world of aid – its people, ideas and...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Food Security
From Crisis to Global Governance
Series: Routledge Critical Security Studies
This book fills a gap in the literature by setting concerns for food security in the context of global food governance in the twenty-first century. It highlights the systemic inadequacies of the present food system and of the dominant strategies for achieving food security. Examining the...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Theories of Development
In Comparative and Historical Perspective
This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of theories of development, from its earliest formulations to the challenges posed by the globalizing world of the twenty-first century. Rather than simply discussing theories in an abstract way, this book clearly tracks their...
To Be Published November 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Labor, Geopolitics and Development in East Asia
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
The Chinese Communist Party’s response to the wave of factory strikes in the early summer of 2010 has raised important questions about the role that labour plays in the transformation of world orders. In contrast to previous policies of repression towards labour unrest, these recent disputes...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Counter-Globalization and Socialism in the 21st Century
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
Framed by critical globalisation theory and David Harvey’s ‘co-revolutionary moments’ as a theory of social change, this book brings together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers to empirically analyse how socialism is being constructed in contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, and...
Published June 16th 2013 by Routledge
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Caribbean Sovereignty, Development and Democracy in an Age of Globalization
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
Many of the nations of the Caribbean that have become independent states have maintained as a central, organizing, nationalist principle the importance in the beliefs of the ideals of sovereignty, democracy, and development. Yet in recent years, political instability, the relative size of...
Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge
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The Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
Global Development after 2015
Series: Global Institutions
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have contributed to reductions in poverty and improvements in the human condition in many parts of the world since their "invention" in 2000 and 2001. It nonetheless remains the case that today, as on all the previous days of the twenty-first century, almost...
Published July 23rd 2012 by Routledge
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Africa in the 21st Century
Toward a New Future
Series: African Studies
Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future brings together some of the finest Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilities of a new future where the continent claims its own agency in response to the economic, social, political, and cultural problems which are found...
Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Europe's Green Revolution and Others Since
The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding
Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History
How best to foster agricultural development in the Third World has long been a subject of debate and from a European perspective the persistent failure to design peasant-friendly technology is puzzling. From the late 19th century, for example, various western European countries also underwent ‘...
Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Andre Gunder Frank and Global Development
Visions, Remembrances, and Explorations
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
This work focuses on the ideas and influence of Andre Gunder Frank, one of the founding figures and leading analysts of political economy at the global level. Through discussion of his work the contributors in this volume examine the shifting currents of the world economy and the accompanying...
Published February 16th 2012 by Routledge
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
The Politics and Practice of Refugee Protection, 2nd Edition
Series: Global Institutions
This revised and expanded second edition of The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) continues to offer a concise and comprehensive introduction to both the world of refugees and the organizations that protect and assist them. This updated edition also includes: up to date...
Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
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The Reality of Aid 2000
An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance
Series: Aid and Development Set
NOW IN ITS SEVENTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid 2000 looks at how the performance of OECD donor countries on aid and development cooperation has matched up to the challenge of eliminating absolute poverty. The report charts some improvements at the level of donor policy and rhetoric. But its...
Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
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The Reality of Aid 1998-1999
An independent review of poverty reduction and development assistance
Series: Aid and Development Set
NOW IN ITS SIXTH ANNUAL EDITION, The Reality of Aid has for the first time analysed the 'fair share' of bilateral aid for basic social services ? basic education, basic health, reproductive health, nutrition, clean water and sanitation - that should come from each donor; an analysis which shows...
Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
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Inclusive Aid
Changing Power and Relationships in International Development
Rapid and profound changes are taking place in international development. The past two decades have promoted the ideals of participation and partnership, yet key decisions affecting people's lives continue to be made without sufficient attention to the socio-political realities of the countries in...
Published May 31st 2004 by Routledge