International Development : Issues and Challenges

by Kingsbury, Damien; McKay, John; Hunt, Janet; McGillivray, Mark; Clarke, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780230573420
• ISBN10: 0230573428
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This major new textbook introduces the key contemporary issues in the theory, practice and study of development, from economic growth, good governance and globalization to gender, security and the environment.

Author Biography

DAMIEN KINGSBURY is Director of the Masters in International and Community Development at Deakin University, Australia
JOHN MCKAY is a founding director of the MA in Development Studies at Monash University and is now a development consultant.
JANET HUNT is a Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University.
MARK MCGILLIVRAY is a Research Fellow and Project Director at the World Institute for Development Economics and Research at the United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland.
MATTHEW CLARKE is Senior Lecturer in the Masters in International and Community Development at Deakin University, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
What is Development?	p. 21
Reassessing Development Theory: 'Modernization' and Beyond	p. 51
Aid and Development	p. 74
The Economics of Development	p. 104
Globalization and Development	p. 127
Poverty: Concepts, Measures, Trends and Responses	p. 152
Crises in Africa, Asia and Latin America: Lessons and Wider Implications	p. 177
Political Development	p. 199
Community Development	p. 222
Gender and Development	p. 245
Environment and Development	p. 271
Security and Development in the Post-9/11 World	p. 297
References	p. 320
Index	p. 364
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