Development Studies Paperbacks

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141. Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South

     Contesting Knowledges for a Sustainable Future

     By Anders Breidlid

     Series: Routledge Research in Education

     The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies. Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western...

     Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
142. Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

     Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas

     Edited by Helen Suich, Brian Child

     The crucible of innovation in wildlife and habitat conservation is in southern Africa where it has co-evolved with decolonization, political transformation and the rise of development, ownership, management and livelihood debates. Charting this innovation, early chapters deal with the...

     Published August 19th 2012 by Routledge
143. Rural Development Theory and Practice

     By Ruth McAreavey

     Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

     Rural development is inherently viewed as a positive thing; it is seen as something that brings together groups of individuals with automatic positive implications and outcomes. Policy rhetoric frequently uses popular terms such as involvement, participation and power sharing to describe rural...

     Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
144. On the Edges of Development

     Cultural Interventions

     Edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian, Debashish Munshi

     Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

     Big business, financial institutions, and capitalist powers have wreaked much havoc on the Third World in the name of development. This book re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture – in the broadest sense of lived experience and...

     Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
145. The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation

     By Matthias Krause

     Series: Routledge Studies in Development and Society

     According to recent estimates, around 6,000 people – mostly children under five – die every day from diseases caused by inappropriate water and sanitation (WS) services. Much of the academic and political debate surrounding this issue has focused on private sector participation. By...

     Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
146. Economic Growth, Income Distribution and Poverty Reduction in Contemporary China

     By Shujie Yao

     Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

     China has experienced over a quarter century of rapid economic growth, which has had a phenomenal impact on the global economy. Entering into the twenty-first century implies that China has begun a new phase of economic and social development. Yao reviews the economic development history...

     Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
147. Neopatrimonialism in Africa and Beyond

     Edited by Daniel Bach, Mamoudou Gazibo

     Series: Routledge Studies in African Politics and International Relations

     Neopatrimonialism, a system whereby rulers use state resources for personal benefit and to secure the loyalty of clients in the general population, is central to any teaching or conceptualisation of contemporary African politics. This book is a theoretical and comparative study of neopatrimonialism...

     Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
148. Managing Development

     Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy

     Edited by Junji Nakagawa

     Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

     Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involvement in the integrated and liberalized world economy, it also increased their vulnerability to...

     Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
149. International Labor Mobility

     Unemployment and Increasing Returns to Scale

     By Bharati Basu

     Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

     Migration of workers within and across national boundaries is an important issue in an age of increasing levels of innovation and invention which economizes cost and helps large scale production.This book analyses the implications of migration for the levels of unemployment and distinguishes...

     Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge
150. Innovation in Complex Social Systems

     Edited by Petra Ahrweiler

     Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

     Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists....

     Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge