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Brings together leading international scholars to assess the claim that democratization around the world is facing a serious challenge and features in-depth studies on US democracy promotion, the Middle East, Russia, China and new democracies.
Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day.
Exploring the significance, and convergence, of economic liberalisation, urban redevelopment and the media explosion in India, this book demonstrates an approach towards the cultural and political economy of leisure in a complex and changing society.
This book aims to explain this process from the perspective of developing countries. It charts current trends in industrial development drawing on available statistics and explores different perspectives on the role the manufacturing industry can play.
First published in 1978, Development Economics in Action is a renowned study of policies in Ghana, one of Africa’s most closely watched economies. In this new edition three additional chapters provide a detailed account of 1978-2008.
The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the substantial periods of urban development in UK. The New Towns provide lessons for... Læs mere
This book looks at the development of intellectual property rights in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, in the context of their WTO memberships and consequent compliance with the TRIPS Agreement.
This book examines the issues of regional and bilateral trade and peace building under different and varying contexts, with detailed case studies focusing on South America; the southern African region; South Asia and; South East Asia.
Social Movements, Law and the Politics of Land Reform investigates how state and rural social movements are struggling for land reform against the background of a re-emergence of constitutional promises and projects in much of the developing world.
This book provides a systematic analysis of the impact of globalization on poverty. The contributors seek to identify the important channels of effect and possible outcomes of globalization shocks and policy responses.
The book explores the relationships, objectives and strategies of the actors engaging in urban regeneration schemes, and their effects on affordable property development in cities of three advanced European economies.
In South Asia and beyond, human development continues to be in a state of crisis. Each successive Human Development Report (HDR) and the... Læs mere