Development Studies

Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its ...

Triple bottom line (TBL or 3BL) was coined as a wide and inspiring approach for businesses aimed at understanding how to create, track, and manage ...

This edited collection provides a comprehensive and locally situated understanding of English language teaching from the perspective of dedicated a...

This book explores young Cambodians’ perceptions of their place in today’s society and how they interact with the country’s arts and culture scene....

Taxation and Inequality in Latin America takes a heterodox political economy approach, focusing on Latin America, where current problems of taxatio...

This book illustrates two approaches for firms to shape successful circular strategies, namely, the Circular Economy and Circular Districts. The fo...

Strategic alliances have generally been used to refer to relationships that allow an organization to access the strengths and capabilities of other...

This book rethinks economic theory and calls for a creative and pragmatic approach to policymaking. It examines what development and sustenance of ...

In a world grappling with refugee crisis, political unrest and economies on the verge of collapse, temporary migration has become an increasingly c...

This collection brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars exploring how development financing and interventions are being shaped by a ...

This book explores developmental policymaking across the multiple levels of Mexico’s contemporary state, arguing that many of the innovations in in...

Due to the economic and social effects of globalization democracy is currently in crisis in many states around the world. This book suggests that s...

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

This book examines the extent to which a space has opened up in recent years for the so-called "rising powers" of the global South to offer an alte...

During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and t...

This book offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to thinking about inequality, and to understanding how inequality is produced and reprod...

This book interrogates the validity of longstanding claims that Gambians and Senegalese are 'one' people in two countries and explores how that cla...

There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book aims to fill this...

Rising as a global power and regarding the existing world order unjust and unreasonable enough to meet the interests of both itself and other emerg...

Due to the economic and social effects of globalization democracy is currently in crisis in many states around the world. This book suggests that s...

Economic Development in Ghana and Malaysia investigates why two countries that appeared to be at more or less the same stage of economic developmen...

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different so...

This title was first published in 2000: Up-to-date information on socio-economic issues in contemporary Swaziland is not always readily accessible....

Although Britain’s formal imperial role in the smaller, oil-rich Sheikhdoms of the Arab Gulf – Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates...

Although the Genocide Convention was already adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1945, it was only in the late 1990s that groups of activists eme...

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...

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

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...

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

The Political Economy of China’s Great Transformation consists of three parts: first, covering the current political transformation, providing a ge...

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...

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

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

Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance provides a critical analysis of how frameworks of gender equality play out ...

Security challenges pose significant hardship for citizens of Caribbean nations. Public safety is threatened by high rates of crime – especially vi...

An extensive literature has demonstrated that technologies in sub-Saharan Africa are largely inappropriate: that is, that they are typically capita...

This book offers an analysis of external dimensions of an emerging economy, India, in the backdrop of neoliberal globalisation. External dimensions...

Transnational mobility in the EU has become a key factor for supranational integration, equal life chances and socioeconomic prosperity. This book ...

In most Latin American countries, key officials and political figures have been involved in big corruption scandals in the last decade, leading to ...

The unifying theme of Women and Careers is women’s educational and employment success, with the objective of profiling supportive public policy in ...

South Sudan is one of the world’s most divided and unstable countries. Since achieving statehood in 2011, the country has plunged into civil war (2...

Written by a team of expert practitioners at the Independent Office of Evaluation of IFAD, this book gives an overview of evaluation practice at IF...

This comprehensive volume explores the interface between politics and policy making in the water management sector of India. The authors discuss th...