Development Studies

Enough! insists there is enough for all. Creating such a future is not about producing more or living with less. Instead, it starts with rethinking...

The relationship between human beings and the urban environment is a topic increasing in relevance. Most of the people in the world live in an urba...

Throughout its history, Nigeria has been plagued by religious divisions. Tensions have only intensified since the restoration of democracy in 1999,...

While the booming humanitarian sector faces daunting challenges, humanitarian economics emerges as a new field of study and practice--one that enco...

At the end of the twentieth century, academics and policymakers welcomed a trend toward fiscal and political decentralization as part of a potentia...

When anthropologist Delwar Hussain arrived in a remote coal mining village on the Bangladesh/India border to research the security fence India is b...

Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-12, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands mor...

Since the 1970s, the number of formally democratic states has grown exponentially whilst coherent alternatives to democracy have steadily diminishe...

This book assesses the validity of anti-politics critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. I...

Analyses of formal governmental institutions and electoral laws have considerably advanced our understanding of how politics works in Latin America...

A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our ...

What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments and the international community foster development? The process by which nations es...

South Sudan, the worlds youngest country, has experienced a rocky start to its life as an independent nation. Less than three years after gaining i...

Developmentalist Cities addresses the missing urban story in research on East Asian developmentalism and the missing developmentalist story in stud...

Shortlisted for the African Business Book of the Year Award For Heineken, rising Africa is already a reality: the profits it extracts there are al...

For many liberal commentators at the turn of the 1990s, the collapse of the Soviet Union represented a final victory for Western reason and capital...

Yemen is in the grip of its most severe crisis in years. The civil war between the Huthi rebels and the Western and Arab supporters of the regime h...

Want to help? First you must be willing to learn. This year, over ten million people will go abroad, eager to find the perfect blend of adventure...

Generational thinking is not a science, but a reliable framework for successful marketing, communications, and product strategy. This book describe...

Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished.Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They en...

If you boil a kettle twice today, you will have used five times more electricity than a person in Mali uses in a whole year. How can that be possib...

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

What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or ...