Development Studies

Chinas food security has never failed to attract the publics attention. Feeding Chinas large population has always been a huge challenge. The lates...

Originally published in 1985, New Nationalisms in the Developed West is a collection of interdisciplinary and insightful essays on modern nationali...

Social protection serves as an important development tool, helping to alleviate deprivation, reduce social risks, raise household income and develo...

This book empirically examines health care financing reforms and popular responses in three major cities in East Asia: Shanghai, Singapore, and Hon...

Agriculture productivity, growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined. In partic...

This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental...

Discussions of the illicit and the illegal have tended to be somewhat restricted in their disciplinary range, to date, and have been largely confin...

The field of humanitarianism is characterised by profound uncertainty, by a constant need to respond to the unpredictable, and by concepts and prac...

Transnational organizations and practitioners who use sport for international development often position sport as a unique option for tackling deve...

First published in 1989, this book provides a macro-micro approach to economic development taking account of multi-level linkages, both inter and ...

This comprehensive volume explores debt dynamics and the intensification of debt crises across the globe, bringing together several recent but unde...

The Arctic-Barents Region is facing numerous pressures from a variety of sources, including the effect of environmental changes and extractive indu...

The Political Economy of Chinas Great Transformation consists of three parts: first, covering the current political transformation, providing a gen...

The large-scale extraction of natural resources for sale in capitalist markets is not a new phenomenon, but in recent years global demand for resou...

Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence to explore how development organisati...

Global ethics focuses on the most pressing contemporary ethical issues - poverty, global trade, terrorism, torture, pollution, climate change and t...

European macro-regions, Euroregions and other forms of inter-regional, cross-border cooperation have helped to shape new scenarios and new relation...

Some 600 million children worldwide do not legally exist. Without verifiable identification, they—and unregistered adults—could face serious diffic...

Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and...

The idea that international development aid needs to be better managed and coordinated gained currency in the early 1990s. The increasing emphasis ...

Tourism gentrification is a critical shaping force of socio-economic and contemporary urban landscapes. This book aims to be the first substantive ...

This book investigates demobilisation, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The six lar...

Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives. These new values, ass...

First published in 1998, this volume focuses on the relationship between trade policy and economic growth, one of the most controversial questions ...