Development Studies

This revised and expanded second edition of Routledge International Handbook of Migration Studies provides a comprehensive basis for understanding ...

Women in conflict zones face steep challenges, and nowhere is this clearer than in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, regions that face reduced fore...

The 21st century has changed the face of entrepreneurship and development. Venture capital volume almost tripled since 2006 and concepts like micro...

When it was published in 2002, the first edition of African Economic Development offered an authoritative statement about economic growth on the co...

Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops. The Alta Gracia factory in the Dominican Republic is the a...

Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that i...

Reviving Arab Reform offers a unique consideration of the links between economic, political and social development in the Arab region and offers ta...

Exploring the interplay between globalization, education and international development, this comprehensive introduction surveys the impact of globa...

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics...

China is transforming Africa's information space. It is assisting African broadcasters with extensive loans, training and exchange programmes and h...

Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability and urbanization have led to the rapid spread of private security providers. While these PS...

'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been widely derided as a failed state, unable to meet the basic needs of its citizens. But while state i...

Set in one of the worlds most unequal and violent places, this ethnographic study reveals how insurance companies discovered a vast market of predo...

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history. ...

Globalization includes complex processes, easy to identify but difficult to explain. Why, for instance, are globalizing processes so unevenly distr...

Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or...

Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or...

With the use of wide-ranging case studies the author clearly illustrates the impact of schemes intended to re-allocate land in developing countries...

The Transformation of Capacity in International Development exposes the transformation of capacity within the development discourse through a discu...

The Transformation of Capacity in International Development exposes the transformation of capacity within the development discourse through a discu...

The book examines the impact of aid to the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip from the 1993 Oslo Agreement up to 2013. It attempts to go beyo...