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List of Figures and Tables | p. ix |
List of Abbreviations | p. x |
Acknowledgements | p. xii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
What is Development? | p. 23 |
Traditional meanings of development | p. 24 |
Contemporary meanings of development | p. 31 |
Applying development definitions | p. 43 |
Conclusion | p. 51 |
Reassessing Development Theory | p. 53 |
The global context for development ideas and policies | p. 55 |
Theories of modernization | p. 58 |
The challenge of dependency theory | p. 62 |
The Asian miracle: challenges for modernization and dependency approaches | p. 66 |
The neo-liberal ascendancy | p. 69 |
Globalization, the global financial crisis and development theory | p. 70 |
Aid and Development | p. 79 |
The purpose of aid | p. 79 |
Historical background | p. 79 |
How much aid, to whom? | p. 82 |
What has shaped levels and distribution of aid? | p. 86 |
What has aid been like? | p. 89 |
How effective has aid been? | p. 95 |
Criticisms of aid | p. 98 |
Aid in an era of globalization | p. 100 |
Conflict and state-building | p. 103 |
The Millennium Development Goals and poverty reduction | p. 106 |
The future of aid for development | p. 109 |
Globalization and Development | p. 112 |
The meaning of globalization | p. 114 |
Key globalization organizations | p. 120 |
New or old? | p. 124 |
Hyperglobalists | p. 126 |
Sceptics | p. 127 |
Transformationalists | p. 131 |
'Realism' | p. 133 |
Conclusion | p. 135 |
The Economics of Development | p. 138 |
The main drivers of growth: competing schools of thought | p. 141 |
Policies to stimulate growth | p. 152 |
Conclusion: growth in a globalizing world | p. 159 |
Continuing Crises: The Developing World and the Global Financial Crisis | p. 153 |
Global and regional crises in historical context: learning the lessons | p. 164 |
How has the risk of crisis increased in recent years? | p. 166 |
Seeking to understand the causes of crises: the return of Marx, Keynes and Minsky | p. 170 |
Other explanations for the GFC, and ideas to prevent a recurrence | p. 175 |
Asia and the global financial crisis | p. 178 |
Africa and the global financial crisis | p. 183 |
Latin America and the global financial crisis | p. 187 |
The GFC and the future of globalization and North-South relations | p. 189 |
Politics, Governance and Development | p. 191 |
The origins of developing countries | p. 192 |
Political identity | p. 194 |
The state | p. 197 |
Militaries in politics | p. 198 |
Democracy, democratization and regime change | p. 200 |
The state, society and democratization | p. 209 |
State institutions | p. 212 |
Governance | p. 214 |
Legitimacy | p. 216 |
Conclusion | p. 217 |
Poverty Alleviation and Development | p. 219 |
Introduction | p. 219 |
What is poverty? | p. 220 |
Measuring poverty | p. 226 |
The recent experience of poverty | p. 232 |
Development interventions to end poverty | p. 239 |
Conclusion | p. 243 |
Community Development | p. 245 |
Bottom-up versus top-down | p. 246 |
External involvement | p. 247 |
Background to community development | p. 249 |
Education as development | p. 252 |
Social distinction | p. 255 |
Social organization | p. 258 |
Co-operatives | p. 260 |
Expecting the unexpected | p. 263 |
Community development at work: the East Timor experience | p. 265 |
Local versus global | p. 269 |
Gender and Development | p. 272 |
Sex and gender: what are we talking about? | p. 273 |
Integrating women into development | p. 275 |
Women and development: a new critique | p. 276 |
Gender and development | p. 277 |
Gender and adjustment | p. 279 |
Gender and the environment | p. 281 |
Postmodernism and difference | p. 284 |
Community development approaches | p. 286 |
Gender and globalization: the way ahead | p. 290 |
Gender and governance | p. 292 |
Gender and the Millennium Development Goals | p. 295 |
Gender mainstreaming | p. 298 |
Environment and Development | p. 302 |
Global warming | p. 304 |
Population reduction | p. 306 |
Deforestation | p. 312 |
Desertification | p. 314 |
Water | p. 316 |
Political economy of the environment | p. 321 |
Alternatives | p. 323 |
Renewable energy | p. 327 |
Triple bottom line | p. 332 |
Security and Development | p. 335 |
Revisiting the concept of security: linking security and development | p. 339 |
The nature and costs of terrorism | p. 346 |
Facing the basic causes of terrorism and other human security issues | p. 350 |
Conclusions: human security as a focus for development studies | p. 359 |
References | p. 361 |
Index | p. 409 |
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