Development Studies

The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revis...

In this insightful new book, Moncrieffe argues that the traditionally narrow interpretation of accountability obscures relationships, power dynamic...

A wide-ranging volume featuring contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and develo...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NGOs and civil society (CS) actors in Central Asia found themselves struggling to set up new organizations ...

Focusing on local content in the oil and oil service sectors and the changing accumulation strategies of the domestic elite, this book questions wh...

The authors of Education, War & Peace travelled to Liberia, Sierra Leone and South Sudan to conduct research on education in these conflict-aff...

Much and warranted attention is paid to the lives of aid recipients - their household lives, saving habits, gender relations, etc. It''s held that ...

In the twenty-first century, the relationship between violent conflict and natural resources has become a matter of intense public and academic deb...

The Orangi Pilot Project (OPP) was established, by Akhtar Hameed Khan the renowned Pakistani social scientist, in the informal settlement of Orangi...

This study addresses the role of agricultural policies in raising incomes in developing countries. Higher incomes are essential for sustained progr...

Africa's rapid population growth and urbanisation has made its socioeconomic development a global priority. But as China ramps up its assistance in...

In Quality Peace, leading peace researcher Peter Wallensteen offers a broad analysis of peacebuilding, isolating what does and not work when settli...

Landlocked and with an economy reliant on subsistence agriculture, Niger often comes into the public eye only as example of deprivation and insecur...

Landlocked and with an economy reliant on subsistence agriculture, Niger often comes into the public eye only as example of deprivation and insecur...

How is it that rural poverty in southern Tanzania appears both easy to explain and yet also mystifying? Why is it that 'development' is such a touc...

Balochistan is clichéd as the largest province of Pakistan, with the smallest population, and with vast natural resources. This is indeed true. It...

600 million Indians, more than half the population, are under twenty-five. This generation lives between extremes: more connected and global than e...

The Belt and the Road initiative was unveiled by the Chinese president Xi Jinping in 2013. This initiative covers a multitude of investment project...

Examines infrastructure development in the Indo-Pacific, primarily in the maritime domain, and its geopolitical implications for India. The book is...

As we consider the plight of our consumer-driven economy, it is easy to forget that money is about relationship: between individuals and between co...

This book provides an invaluable guide to undertaking development fieldwork in both the developing world and in western contexts. It takes you thro...