Critical Concepts in Development Studies

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1. Agricultural Development

   Edited by Christopher Barrett

   Series: Critical Concepts in Development Studies

   Virtually all national cases of rapid, widespread progress from poverty to wealth have been causally associated with the transformation of agricultural systems. From eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and North America to late twentieth-century East Asia, striking increases in agricultural...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
2. Gender and Development

   Edited by Janet Momsen

   Series: Critical Concepts in Development Studies

   It is increasingly apparent that the growing challenges facing development scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners in the twenty-first century require a more sophisticated understanding of the importance of gender than has hitherto been the case. At a time when the forces of globalization are...

   Published June 18th 2008 by Routledge
3. Development Economics

   Edited by Christopher B. Barrett

   Series: Critical Concepts in Development Studies

   Development economics is in many senses the most fundamental field within the discipline of economics, focused on understanding how resource allocation, human behaviour, institutional arrangements, and private and public policy jointly influence the evolution of the human condition. As the opening...

   Published August 22nd 2007 by Routledge