Development Studies

For decades, policy-makers in government, development banks and foundations, NGOs, researchers and students have struggled with the problem of how ...

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment   Over the past two decades...

Children often fare the worst when communities face social and environmental changes. The quality of food, water, affection and education that chil...

This volume collects essays from prominent intellectuals and public figures based on talks given at the 2015 Darwin College Lectures on the theme o...

The growing scale of international migration has reshaped the debate on the social rights and social protection available to people outside their c...

Labour internationalism is often viewed as impossible or inevitable, depending upon political perspective. O'Brien argues for a more nuanced, diver...

In this book, Franklin Obeng-Odoom seeks to carefully explain, engage, and systematically question the existing explanations of inequalities within...

Africa is on the rise. Enabled by natural resources, commodity trading and the recent discovery of Africa as the last frontier of capitalism by the...

This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and examining the impact upon co...

Africa is home to many of the world's fastest-growing economies. This powerful book traces new continental institutions for development and their c...

Africa is home to many of the world's fastest-growing economies. This powerful book traces new continental institutions for development and their c...

Moving beyond both tourism and politics literatures' current understandings of how tourism is developed, this book offers an original theory of int...

Debates on participatory tend to be abstract, with references to experiences in Athens over 2000 years ago. This book uses recent experience in par...

International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extract...

Interrogates the idea of capacity building theoretically and explores the variety of meanings, constructions and practices of capacity building. Th...

Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offer...

Examines the history of electricity provision in Africa and the effects of privatization and infrastructure changes in energy transformation, offer...

Ecotourism Development in Costa Rica: The Search for Oro Verde, by Andrew P. Miller, examines the use of ecotourism as a development strategy in Co...

'Lucid, calm and compelling Olivier De Schutter tackles the big questions' Kate Pickett, co-author, The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for E...

Focusing on world regions where human rights abuses are the most serious, extensive and sustained; this book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge o...

Jude Howell brings together eight in-depth studies of the politics of global non-governmental public action. Covering detailed empirical research a...

Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertake...

Global crises not only deeply impact the economy and people's livelihoods, they also unsettle basic ideas and assumptions about the meaning and dri...

Activists and academics look back over ten years of 'politics from below', and ask whether it is merely the critical gaze upon the concept that has...

Various African nations have undergone conflict situations since they gained their independence. This book focuses on particular countries that hav...

The first book to examine in detail the ways in which people adapt their understanding and behaviours towards poverty as a direct result to their e...

Conventional development planning lacks sensitivity to the female experience. Tackling gendered discrimination and the exclusion of women, SDG5 aim...

Globalization and Development is a cross-national study on the interstate dispersion of the impacts (on growth, inequality and poverty) that intern...

Investigates development practice, civil organization formation and the increase of ethnically motivated conflicts over the past two decades in Wes...

This book takes a compelling approach to describing what is needed to create the kind of future that most people on Earth really want. Our global s...

Global capitalism is a precarious system. Relying on the steady flow of goods across the world, trans-national companies such as Wal-Mart and Amazo...

Global capitalism is a precarious system. Relying on the steady flow of goods across the world, trans-national companies such as Wal-Mart and Amazo...

Low income households are faced with various types of risks, increasing their vulnerability to poverty. In Cambodia, conditions of the rural poor -...

The world is changing. Human population is surging towards 10 billion, food, water, climate and energy security are all at risk. Nitrogen could be ...

The world is changing. Human population is surging towards 10 billion, food, water, climate and energy security are all at risk. Nitrogen could be ...

Robert Weatherley argues that Chinese perceptions of democracy and human rights have been heavily influenced by the pressing issue of how to make C...

This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar...

Examines Eritrea's deprivation of human rights since independence and its transformation into a militarised garrison state, updated to include the ...

This book brings a fresh, original approach to understand social action in China and Vietnam through the conceptual lens of informal environmental ...

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China is growing in importance to the economies and governments of the world, and it has been run by men with very different ideas. How China copes...