Development Studies

What do we mean by gifts in International Relations? Can foreign aid be conceptualized as a gift? Most foreign aid transactions are unilateral and ...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. Writing about cl...

This volume addresses issues of political and economic globalization and worldwide connectedness of countries posing a question whether it symboliz...

This title offers a constructive appraisal of the relationship between secular development and Christian mission, demonstrating the opportunities a...

A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities ...

Kazakhstan is one of the best-known success stories of Central Asia, perhaps even of the entire Eurasian space. It boasts a fast growing economyat ...

Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South...

Winner of Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Winner of Donner Prize A Summer Book of 2021, Financial Times Longlisted Financial Times and McKinsey B...

River Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities a...

Capacity building is a topic of intense focus in many industrialized countries. This book explores the theoretical underpinnings of capacity buildi...

India is driving some of the most important trends in global energy marketswith vast environmental implications. As the country grows wealthier, In...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

India is driving some of the most important trends in global energy marketswith vast environmental implications. As the country grows wealthier, In...

Contents: I. Crises of Political Development, Leonard Binder. II. The Development Syndrome: Differentiation- Equality-Capacity, James S. Colcman. I...

This book highlights the attention that policymakers, activists, and the public should pay to internal migration. Although prominent research has a...

This volume closely analyses womens role and experiences in migration (internal and international) and its interlinkages with the care economy in t...

For experienced and inexperienced researchers and practitioners alike, this engaging book opens up new perspectives on conducting fieldwork in the ...

For experienced and inexperienced researchers and practitioners alike, this engaging book opens up new perspectives on conducting fieldwork in the ...

The full implementation of green manufacturing is the route that China must take to develop an ecological civilization; it is also the inevitable c...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how...

Countries in East Asia and the Pacific were already experiencing a learning crisis when the COVID-19 pandemic made things worse. This report examin...

Humanitarianism has a narrative problem. Far too often, aid to Africa is envisioned through a tale of Western heroes saving African sufferers. Whil...

This book provides a quantitative and qualitative overview of the overall impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the capacity of Brazil, Russia, ...

This book examines the nature of conflict in Africa vis-à-vis the African Union (AU) peace and security architecture in Africa. It focuses on the i...

Adventures in the Aid Trade takes us on a fascinating journey through 40 years of work at the coalface of international development. Drawing on his...

A wave of optimism is sweeping through the international aid and development industry, championed by leaders such as Jeffrey Sachs and Jim Yong Kim...

This title explores the place of education in development debates and provides a systematic as well as a theoretical overview of the main approache...

Social entrepreneurship and impact investing contribute to a more inclusive capitalism and bring innovative solutions to global challenges, such as...

Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Ofte...

Cities and the Knowledge Economy is an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge...

A group of specialists trace the origins and development of political parties, explore their impact on the system in which they exist, and raise ne...

Volume 5 in the Studies in Political Development Series. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-dema...

This seventh volume in the annual series of Congolese documents compiled by the Centre de Recherche et d'Information Socio-Politiques in Brussels c...

Contemporary international affairs are largely shaped by widely differing thematic issues and actors, such as nation states, international institut...

To assess urban sustainability performance, this book explores several clusters of cities, including megacities, cities of the Global South, Europe...

Social Entrepreneurship: A Practical Introduction equips aspiring entrepreneurs with the tools needed to design and launch businesses to create pos...

Now in its fourth edition, Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies remains a core, balanced and comprehensive introducto...

An analysis of Pakistani politics under President Mohammad Ayub Khan that focuses on the practical limitations of that leader's ability to mobilize...

Volume 5 in the Studies in Political Development Series. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-dema...

What is the role of the public bureaucracy in social, economic, and political development? What are the alternatives of development for newly emerg...

For more than a century cars have symbolized autonomous, unfettered mobility and an increasingly global experience. And yet, they are often used di...

The book aims at performing a detailed and multifaceted study to show the advantage of the adoption of territorial statistics, in particular local ...