Development Studies

This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines ...

The movement of displaced people, migrants and refugees has become increasingly important around the world, leading to a need for increased scrutin...

Any city is a product of politics and economics, organizations and people. Yet, the life experiences of women uprooted from its poorest quarters se...

Climate change and environmental degradation have intensified the pressures on crucial resources such as food and water security and air quality. I...

The Routledge Handbook of Entrepreneurship in Developing Economies is a landmark volume that offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of entreprene...

Peacekeeping training centres play a crucial role in preparing peacekeepers for their deployment. However, despite their popularity within the inte...

Since the group of least developed countries (LDCs) was identified in 1971, only five countries have graduated from the group, all of which are cha...

Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity. The process of democratisation has accent...

This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary overview of the major facets of Indonesia's contemporary agricultural and rural development, while ex...

This book provides a detailed examination of the impact of globalisation on plantation labour, dominated by women labour, in India. The studies pre...

This book explores the relationship between the state, development policy, and gender (in)equality in India. It discusses the formation of state po...

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide a...

This volume is a collection of articles dealing with various dimensions of the Global Financial Crisis and its economic and social impact in terms ...

This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that co...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has established itself as one of the most powerful private forces in global politics, shaping the trajectorie...

The question of why countries give aid and assistance to other countries has long been a topic of debate- is it altruism, or selfishness? The assum...

The UN Security Council has been given the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The precise meaning of this res...

Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today – such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and eco...

In 1994, BRAC, the world's largest NGO, made headlines by putting women's rights centre stage in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the wo...

If you had just one wish for the study of human development, what would it be? How would it advance the field? And what would it take for your visi...

The book presents and further develops basic principles and concepts in international finance and open economy macroeconomics to make them more rel...

Corruption scandals receive significant press coverage and scrutiny from practitioners of global governance, and bilateral and multilateral donors....

Trust is a core concept in International Relations (IR), representing a key ingredient in state relations. It was only relatively recently that IR ...

Since the early 2000s, state-led and innovation-focused strategies have characterized the approach to development pursued in countries around the w...

Ragged Trousered NGOs is a compelling first-hand account of the NGO sector and wider civil society over the past 40 years, examining how and why pe...

Since the year 2000 Latin America has been at the forefront of a series of diverse experiments with alternative forms, pathways and models of econo...

Religion and development have been intertwined since development's beginnings, yet faith-based aid and development agencies consistently fail to co...

Innovation has the potential to address a number of development challenges such as combating poverty and delivering health services, but all too of...

It is widely accepted that natural resource wealth, especially in the form of oil and minerals, can be a key factor in inhibiting economic developm...

The 2011 Arab uprisings led to a great proliferation of studies on the situations in the Arab countries of the Mediterranean, with particular atten...

Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) i...

Inequality is one of the most discussed topics of our times. Yet, we still do not know how to tackle the issue effectively. The book argues that th...

South Africa’s transition to a greener economy features prominently in the long-term development vision of the country, and is an integral part of ...

Thousands of people in dozens of countries took to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011. What does the persistence of popular...

This comprehensive volume reviews recent scholarship regarding the role of the state in economic development. With a wide range of case studies of ...

Newly gained sovereignty, uneven penetration of neo-liberal ideals and the growth of disparate capitalist markets have elicited varied responses in...

This book analyses how religion is entangled in people’s lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. It provides an introduction to the teaching...

For centuries, new technologies and expanding networks of production and consumption have been changing the face of rural economies in significant ...

How Speech Acting and the Struggle of Narratives Generate Organization seeks to shed understanding on how speaking or speech-acting affects how we ...

This edited volume bridges the "analytical divide" between studies of transatlantic relations, democratic peace theory, and foreign policy analysis...

This title was first published in 2001. "Grand aims" refers to the overarching tenets and doctrines that prevailed in US and South African foreign ...

First published in 1997, this volume enters the debate on urban transport, dealing with a range of issues from questions of ownership and network p...

This book outlines the basic features of the dependency literature and clarifies the emergence and development of the dependency paradigm, its mean...

East Asian nations through the dialogue between ASEAN and its partners have been promoting energy market integration (EMI) for a decade. The format...

This book examines the role of African intellectuals in the years since the end of colonialism, studying the contribution that has been made by suc...

This title was first published in 2002. In 2000, a major international conference was organized by the Arab Planning Institute to identify, analyze...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to the rapid change in mid-1980s South East Asia, exploring the uneven distribution of development wi...