Development Studies

This volume is a study of seva as a concept that gives the national movement an ethical charge. It maps how the idea of seva provides the foundatio...

As debates about migrants and refugees reverberate around the world, this book offers an important first-hand account of how migration is being app...

This report provides an overview of the estimated and projected trends in mortality at the world level, for development groups and major areas; the...

Around the world lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer individuals are subjected to violence and intimidation based on their real or pe...

What are Beijing’s objectives towards the developing world and how they have evolved and been pursued over time? Featuring contributions by recogni...

Heralded as a success that mobilized support for development, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ushered in an era of setting development agen...

With thirty-two original chapters reflecting cutting edge content throughout developed and developing Asia, Women of Asia: Globalization, Developme...

The book examines the conceptual, economic, and fiscal impact(s) of the Social Protection Floor (SPF) initiative of the International Labor Organis...

Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities n...

Social impact investing is gaining ground as one of the most important investment trends in the world. While the size of the social impact investin...

With the expansion of globalization, international trade has played an increasingly significant role, especially for developing countries. As the l...

How do discourses about Brazil’s emergence as a global actor at the beginning of the twenty-first century reinforce particular temporal and spatial...

In this book, author Helene Thiesen recounts her experience of being removed from her family in Greenland as a young Inuk child, to be ‘re-educated...