Development Studies

A lively investigation of the Catholic Church and its controversial social mission in the developing world With 1.2 billion members, the Catholic C...

Composed of articles first published in the journal Politique africaine, this book proposes an original interpretation of neoliberalism in Africa. ...

Explores development through historical narrative and examines the globalization/development paradox through in-depth case studies. In his Fifth...

Community development both a collective effort and an achievement driven by individual facilitators with the aim of lifting a community out of pove...

In this groundbreaking book, Frank K .Upham uses empirical analysis and economic theory to demonstrate how myths surrounding property law have blin...

Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and...

Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and...

From 1973 to 1987, Volkswagen's (VW) 140,000 hectare 'pioneer' cattle ranch on the Amazon frontier laid bare the limits of capitalist development. ...

Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forg...

While humanitarianism is unquestionably a fast-growing subject of practitioner and scholarly engagement, much discussion about it is predicated on ...

From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged 'clash of ci...

'An indispensible inquiry into our moral health and humanity.' LSE Review of Books The war on terror has politicised foreign aid as never before. ...

With tourism lauded throughout Latin America as a sure engine of economic growth, actual performance in the sector has varied to an extreme degree....

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

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork within the World Bank and a Ugandan ministry, this book critically examines how the new aid architecture recas...

In the first historical account of international NGOs, from the French Revolution to the present, Thomas Davies places the contemporary debate on t...

FAO is launching the new and revised Statistical Yearbook 2012. This publication is the foremost collection and reference point for statistical dat...

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

This collection examines successful resettlement practices based on examples from well-known resettlement and development practitioners. It include...

Around the world, border walls and nationalisms are on the rise as people express the desire to take back sovereignty. The contributors to this col...

Around the world, border walls and nationalisms are on the rise as people express the desire to take back sovereignty. The contributors to this col...

To the colonized, the term ''research'' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the thro...

To what extent are the ideas and practice of community development across Europe similar? Community Development and Civil Society explores this que...

This book, consisting of 17 chapters, focuses on clarifying the challenges, issues, and priorities of Agricultural Education and Training (AET) in ...

¿Y SI NOS ESTAMOS EQUIVOCANDO EN NUESTRAS PREGUNTAS SOBRE LA POBREZA? Este relato nace de una pregunta que nunca nos hemos planteado: ?quien es due...

In the face of political impotence, resource depletion, and catastrophic climate change, many of us have become reconciled to an uncertain future. ...

This booklet is intended to heighten awareness about the potential of fermented foods and beverages as a viable enterprise that can contribute to s...