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Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many... Læs mere
The Great Financial Crisis of 20072010 exposed the existence of significant imperfections in the financial regulatory framework that encouraged excessive risk-taking and increased system vulnerabilities. The resulting high cost of the crisis in terms of
The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty.
When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development.
This critical evaluation of development strategies examines development frameworks, and looks at their theoretical underpinnings and the results of their implementation in practice. It covers all the major regions, including Africa, Latin America and Asia.
aeo Offers a lively introduction to world population growth and the debates which surround it. aeo Original and provocative argument -- Furedi argues... Læs mere
Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape and are shaped by the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.
This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses.
Just about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a concrete idea of what the term actually entails. Development offers a comprehensive and wide-ranging... Læs mere
Development studies has tended to neglect culture as a factor in development processes. This volume of readings redresses the balance, gathering together some of the most influential contributions that reflect on the relationship between culture and development.
This text looks at the major post-World War II theories of Third World development. The treatment of the various theories focuses on... Læs mere
Until the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world. These areas were characterized by a range of authoritarian regimes from military administrations to one--party dictatorships.