Understanding Development
ISBN: 9780745638942 | 0745638945
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 3/6/2012
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Understanding Development is the ideal introduction to the major issues and critical debates about development in the contemporary world. Perfectly suited to students, it offers an accessible overview of the key topics that have come to define this crucial subject. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from across the globe, the book explores such areas as: health and population growth conflict and security global inequality and poverty fair trade and trade liberalization gender and education foreign aid and debt sustainability and the enviro... MORE
| Acknowledgements | |
| Acronyms and Abbreviations | |
| List of Boxes | |
| List of Figures | |
| Introduction: Understanding development | |
| Theorizing development | |
| Approaching development | |
| Health, education and population | |
| Gender and development | |
| Conflict, security and development | |
| Trade and development | ... MORE|
| Participation and representation in development | |
| Financing development: foreign aid and debt | |
| Sustainable development | |
| Globalization and development | |
| Conclusion: Development - future trajectories | |
| References and Bibliography | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Paul Hopper is Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton.
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