Development Studies

Integrating Amartya Sen's approach with the literature on place-based territorial development processes, this book recognises the interplay between...

This book evaluates the extent to which post-conflict reconstruction has addressed problems of horizontal inequalities through country case studies...

This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new t...

Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of...

Is 'development' the answer for positive social change or a cynical western strategy for perpetuating inequality? Moving beyond an increasingly ent...

A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing ...

In 2005, pop star Bono proclaimed, Give a man a fish, hell eat for a day. Give a woman microcredit, she, her husband, her children and her extended...

In Lawfare: The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South, Zaffaroni, Caamaño and Vegh Weis offer an account of the misuse of the ...

The Companion to Development Studies is essential reading in the field of development studies. This indispensable resource offers succinct, up-to-d...

Continuando con el hilo de los Informes sobre Desarrollo Humano (IDH) de 2019 y 2020, el Informe sobre Desarrollo Humano 2021/22 lleva adelante una...

This report examines the role of economic and social policies in understanding the evolution of inequality and poverty in Malawi over the past thre...

The 2021 Energy Balances contains energy balances for over 220 countries and territories, showing production, trade, transformation and consumption...

The 2021 Electricity Profiles contains electricity profiles for about 225 countries and territories, providing detailed information on production, ...

The Trade and Development Report 2023 analyses current economic trends and major policy issues of international concern and makes suggestions for a...

This paper looks at how LDCs can innovate using traditional IPR policies and then looks at how innovation is developing in the informal sector. LDC...

The focus of this issue of the Economic Governance Report (EGR II) is on tax expenditures, where governments provide allowances to potential taxpay...

This report was prepared as part of the Botswana Science Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy review process and should be read in conjunction wi...

This book examines the important role which civil society organisations in South Africa play in challenging poor corporate governance in state-owne...

This book demonstrates falsified economic performance of global economies when the environment is not recognised as a capital, and when the ecosyst...

This book explores the joys and occasional frustrations of a development economist working for the United Nations.From 1982 to 2000 Richard Jolly w...

This book analyses how religion is entangled in peoples lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. It provides an introduction to the teachings...

Understanding Global Poverty introduces students to the study and analysis of poverty, helping them to understand why it is pervasive across human ...

World-leading political economist Maja Göpel shows us how we can set the course for the future in times of upheaval, and why this concerns us all. ...

In the twentieth century Japan emerged as one of the worlds leading economic powers: rising from wartime destruction to a leading economic engine i...

Understanding Human Ecology offers a coherent conceptual framework for human ecology a clear approach for understanding the many systems we are pa...

This book provides insight into the development of effective climate policy instrumentation in two divergent and mutually exclusive directions.Exam...

Failed or weak states, miscarried democratizations, and economic underdevelopment characterize a large part of the world we live in. Much work has ...

Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainab...

Escaping the economic and security-centered approaches, prevalent in contemporary U.S. debate the contributors explore political relations between ...

Transformations to sustainability are increasingly the focus of research and policy discussions around the Sustainable Development Goals. However, ...

Return migration has received growing levels of attention in both academic and policy circles in recent years, as the African diaspora's role in co...

Return migration has received growing levels of attention in both academic and policy circles in recent years, as the African diaspora's role in co...

An unprecedented trade war broke out between the worlds two largest economies in 2018 and escalated subsequently. It is the first major economic co...

This book analyses energy transitions and the opportunities and challenges for building sustainable energy systems to improve human capabilities wh...

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban greening from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Thro...

Dans la continuité des Rapports sur le développement humain (RDH) 2019 et 2020, le RDH 2021/22 poursuit une conversation centrée sur les inégalités...

Prioritizing Sustainability Education presents theory-to-practice essays and case studies by educators from six countries who elucidate dynamic app...

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