Poverty and Development Into the 21st Century

by Allen, Tim; Thomas, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780198776260
• ISBN10: 0198776268
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the second edition of the immensely successful international text Poverty and Development in the 1990s. Each chapter introduces the student to a key topic, and is written by a specialist in the field. learning aids include: chapter questions summaries key concepts photographs, cartoons, and maps lists of acronyms, abbreviations, and organizations

Author Biography

Tim Allen is Lecturer in Development Studies, Department of Economics, London School of Economics. Alan Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Systems at the Open University

Table of Contents

List of authors and book production team	vi
Preface	vii
Tim Allen
Allan Thomas
Map of countries and major cities of the world	x
CONCEPTIONS OF POVERTY AND DEVELOPMENT
Poverty and the `end of development'	3	(20)
Alan Thomas
Meanings and views of development	23	(28)
Alan Thomas
A WORLD OF PROBLEMS?
Understanding famine and hunger	51	(24)
Ben Crow
Diseases of poverty	75	(24)
Melissa Parker
Gordon Wilson
Unemployment and making a living	99	(26)
David Wield
Joanna Chataway
Is the world overpopulated?	125	(16)
Tom Hewitt
Ines Smyth
Environmental degradation and sustainability	141	(22)
Philip Woodhouse
A world at war	163	(26)
Tim Allen
Agencies of development	189	(30)
Alan Thomas
Tim Allen
THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION?
Diversity in pre-capitalist societies	219	(22)
Janet Bujra
Colonialism, capitalism, development	241	(30)
Henry Bernstein
The Power of colonial states	271	(18)
David Potter
Half a century of development	289	(20)
Tom Hewitt
Socialist models of development	309	(16)
Andrew Kilmister
The second `great transformation'? Capitalism at the end of the twentieth century	325	(20)
John Harriss
UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT NOW
Sustainable globalization? The global politics of development and exclusion in the new world order	345	(20)
Anthony McGrew
Democratization, `good governance' and development	365	(18)
David Potter
Rethinking gender matters in development	383	(20)
Ruth Pearson
Technology, poverty and development	403	(22)
Gordon Wilson
Richard Heeks
Life in the cities	425	(18)
Jo Beall
Taking culture seriously	443	(26)
Tim Allen
THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT
Genetic engineering of development? Myths and possibilities	469	(16)
Joanna Chataway
Les Levidow
Susan Carr
The new politics of identity	485	(24)
Tim Allen
John Eade
Industrialization and development: prospects and dilemmas	509	(24)
Joanna Chataway
Tim Allen
References	533	(20)
Acknowledgements	553	(3)
List of acronyms, abbreviations and organizations	556	(2)
Index	558