The Companion to Development Studies

by Desai, Vandana; Potter, Robert B.

• ISBN13: 9780340760512
• ISBN10: 0340760516
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-07
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

This new book brings together leading scholars from around the world to provide an international and interdisciplinary overview of twentieth-century development studies. This comprehensive companion's one hundred short chapters cover not only thinkers, schools, and movements but also highlight controversies and points of convergence between different disciplinary traditions.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xiii
Preface	xvii
The nature of development and of development studies	1	(58)
Editorial introduction	1	(2)
The Third World, developing countries, the South, poor countries	3	(4)
Klaus Dodds
Current trends and future options in development studies	7	(5)
Bjorn Hettne
The impasse in development studies	12	(4)
Frans J. Schuurman
Post-development	16	(4)
James D. Sidaway
The collapse of state socialism in the socialist Third World	20	(7)
Keith Sutton
Salah E. Zaimeche
The Asian crisis	27	(5)
Jonathan Rigg
The measurement of poverty	32	(5)
Howard White
Poverty in global terms	37	(4)
Anthony O'Connor
Development as economic growth	41	(4)
A.P. Thirlwall
Development as improving human welfare and human rights	45	(4)
Jennifer A. Elliott
Participatory development	49	(5)
Giles Mohan
Anthropologists and development	54	(5)
R.D. Grillo
Theories and strategies of development	59	(86)
Editorial introduction	59	(2)
Theories, strategies and ideologies of development	61	(4)
Robert B. Potter
Enlightenment and the era of modernity	65	(5)
Marcus Power
Smith, Ricardo and the world marketplace	70	(5)
David Sapsford
Dualistic and unilinear concepts of development	75	(5)
Tony Binns
Transport and development	80	(6)
David Hilling
Neo-liberalism, structural adjustment and poverty reduction strategies	86	(6)
David Simon
The Latin American structuralists	92	(5)
Colin Clarke
Classical dependency theories: from ECLA to Andre Gunder Frank	97	(5)
Dennis Conway
Nikolas Heynen
The New World Group of dependency scholars: reflections on a Caribbean avant-garde movement	102	(5)
Don D. Marshall
World-systems theory: centres, peripheries and semi-peripheries	107	(5)
Thomas Klak
Agropolitan and bottom-up development	112	(5)
Michael J.G. Parnwell
Community participation in development	117	(4)
Vandana Desai
Postmodernism and development	121	(6)
David Simon
Postcolonialism	127	(4)
Cheryl McEwan
Responsibility to distant others	131	(4)
David M. Smith
The changing role of the state in development	135	(4)
Richard Batley
Social capital and development	139	(6)
Erika McAslan
Rural development	145	(36)
Editorial introduction	145	(2)
Rural poverty	147	(4)
Joe Mullen
Rural livelihoods	151	(4)
Colin Murray
The Green Revolution	155	(4)
Graham P. Chapman
Food security	159	(6)
Sudhir Wanmali
Yassir Islam
Rural co-operatives	165	(5)
D.W. Attwood
B.S. Baviskar
Regenerating agriculture	170	(5)
Jules Pretty
Development and the intermediate classes, with special reference to India	175	(6)
Barbara Harriss-White
Industrialization and employment	181	(60)
Editorial introduction	181	(2)
Global shift: industrialization and development	183	(3)
Ray Kiely
The new international division of labour	186	(6)
Alan Gilbert
Global convergence, divergence and development	192	(4)
Robert B. Potter
Trade and industrial policy in developing countries	196	(5)
David Greenaway
Chris Milner
Export processing and free trade zones	201	(5)
Robert N. Gwynne
The informal sector and employment	206	(9)
Sylvia Chant
Child labour	215	(4)
Sally Lloyd-Evans
Technology, knowledge and development	219	(5)
Gordon Wilson
The 'resource curse' in developing countries	224	(6)
Richard M. Auty
Energy and development	230	(6)
B. Sudhakara Reddy
Tourism and development	236	(5)
Graham M.S. Dann
Urbanization	241	(32)
Editorial introduction	241	(2)
Urbanization in developing countries	243	(5)
David Satterthwaite
World cities and development	248	(5)
Robert B. Potter
Prosperity or poverty? Wealth, inequality and deprivation in urban areas	253	(4)
Carole Rakodi
Housing the urban poor	257	(5)
Alan Gilbert
Urbanization and environment in the Third World	262	(6)
David Satterthwaite
Urban agriculture	268	(5)
Kenneth Lynch
Environment	273	(46)
Editorial introduction	273	(2)
Sustainable development	275	(3)
Michael Redclift
Climate, environment and development	278	(6)
Duncan McGregor
The Rio Earth Summit	284	(5)
Mark Pelling
Local Agenda 21 and the Third World	289	(5)
Jonathan Pugh
The Brown Environmental Agenda	294	(4)
Tim Forsyth
Vulnerability and disasters	298	(7)
Piers Blaikie
Savannas and development	305	(5)
Jayalaxshmi Mistry
Tropical moist forests and development	310	(9)
Alan Grainger
Gender population and development	319	(62)
Editorial introduction	319	(2)
WID, GAD and WAD	321	(4)
Kate Young
Women and the state	325	(4)
Kathleen Staudt
Gender families and households	329	(5)
Ann Varley
Feminism and feminist issues in the South	334	(4)
Linda Peake
D. Alissa Trotz
Gender and empowerment: new thoughts, new approaches	338	(4)
Jane L. Parpart
Women in the global economy	342	(4)
Bama Athreya
Gender and structural adjustment	346	(6)
Lynne Brydon
Gender technology and livelihoods	352	(4)
Andrew Scott
Margaret Foster
Women and political representation	356	(4)
Shirin M. Rai
Population trends in developing countries	360	(7)
Ernestina Coast
Sexual and reproductive rights	367	(4)
Sonia Correa
Indigenous fertility control	371	(6)
Tulsi Patel
China's single child family policy	377	(4)
Delia Davin
Health and education	381	(44)
Editorial introduction	381	(2)
Malnutrition and nutrition policies in developing countries	383	(4)
Prakash Shetty
Quality of maternal healthcare and development	387	(4)
Maya Unnithan-Kumar
The social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS on development	391	(5)
Tony Barnett
Managing health and disease in developing countries	396	(4)
Stephen J. Connor
Children's work and schooling: a review of the debates	400	(5)
Ramya Subrahmanian
Young people, education and development	405	(4)
Rob Bowden
Adult literary and development	409	(5)
Raff Carmen
How pedagogical changes can contribute to the quality of education in tow-income countries	414	(5)
John Shotton
Management challenges in achieving education for all: South Asian perspectives	419	(6)
Caroline Dyer
Political economy of violence and insecurity	425	(46)
Editorial introduction	425	(2)
Women, children and violence	427	(5)
Cathy Mcllwaine
War and famine	432	(4)
Jean Dreze
Refugees	436	(4)
Richard Black
War and development	440	(4)
Tim Unwin
Complex emergencies and development	444	(5)
Barry Munslow
Peace-building partnerships and human security	449	(4)
Timothy M. Shaw
Risks analysis and reduction of involuntary resettlement: a theoretical and operational model	453	(6)
Michael M. Cernea
Ethnicity and development	459	(3)
Denis Dwyer
Arms control and disarmament in the context of developing countries	462	(4)
Paul Rogers
The role of the United Nations in developing countries	466	(5)
Jim Whitman
Agents of development	471	(68)
Editorial introduction	471	(2)
Foreign aid in a changing world	473	(4)
Peter Burnell
Third World debt	477	(3)
Stuart Corbridge
Aid conditionality	480	(5)
Tony Killick
The emergence of the governance agenda: sovereignty, neo-liberal bias and the politics of international development	485	(4)
Rob Jenkins
Strengthening civil society in developing countries	489	(6)
Alison Van Rooy
Role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)	495	(4)
Vandana Desai
The World Bank and NGOs	499	(5)
Paul J. Nelson
NGOs and the state	504	(4)
John D. Clark
NGDO-donor relationships: the use and abuse of partnership	508	(6)
Alan F. Fowler
The role of the Northern development NGO (Christian Aid)	514	(5)
Leo Bashyam
Non-governmental organizations: questions of performance and accountability	519	(4)
David Lewis
Monitoring and evaluating NGO achievements	523	(5)
Rick Davies
The relevance of strategic planning for UK aid agencies	528	(6)
Elsa L. Dawson
Challenges for NGOs	534	(5)
Janet G. Townsend
Emma Mawdsley
Gina Porter
Index	539