Development Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Social Protection in Developing Countries

   Reforming Systems

   Edited by Katja Bender, Markus Kaltenborn, Christian Pfleiderer

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

   Providing universal access to social protection and health systems for all members of society, including the poor and vulnerable, is increasingly considered crucial to international development debates. This is the first book to explore from an interdisciplinary and global perspective the reforms...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. India in the Contemporary World

   Edited by Manish Thapa, Jakub Zajączkowski, Jivanta Schottli

   Published March 30th 2013 by Routledge India
3. The Political Economy of the Conflict Trade

   Contextualising Illicit Miners and Informal Traders

   By Morten Boas

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   The economies of conflict play a crucial part in motivating and sustaining the illicit extraction and trade of diamonds, coltan, gold and other natural resources from conflict zones in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book focuses on the political economy of life and death for ordinary people in extreme...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
4. Latin American Development

   By Julie Cupples

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   Latin America’s diverse political and economic struggles and triumphs have captured the global imagination. The region has been a site of brutal dictators, revolutionary heroes, the Cold War struggle and as a place in which the global debt crisis has had some of its most lasting and...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
5. Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure

   The Case of PROPER in Indonesia

   By Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, Thomas Sterner

   Series: Environment for Development

   This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution...

   Published March 26th 2013 by RFF Press
6. Everyday Economic Practices

   The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices

   By Savinna Chowdhury

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as "capitalism...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Agriculture and a Changing Environment in Northeastern India

   Edited by Sumi Krishna

   Series: Transition in Northeastern India

   India’s northeastern region, forged by a unique geological history and peopled by several waves of migration, is extraordinarily complex. Farming systems in the hills and the riverine plains are embedded in a heterogeneous environment, comprising forests, wetlands and fields, shaped over centuries...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge India
8. The Political Economy of Reform Failure

   Edited by Mats Lundahl

   Economists have moved in recent years beyond analyzing the manner in which the macroeconomies of different countries function and prescribing appropriate policies for dealing with domestic and external imbalances. Increasingly, they have sought to understand the complex interaction between...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Women, Land and Power in Asia

   Edited by Govind Kelkar, Maithreyi Krishnaraj

   Across the world women constitute an integral part of the agricultural sector. This volume is based on feminist responses to farming women’s struggle for economic rights and social justice in Asia, and seeks to provide a greater understanding of the development consequences of women’s marginal,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge India
10. Kindling of an Insurrection

    Notes from Junglemahals

    By Chandan Sinha

    The tribal areas of central and eastern India have been under the intractable shadow of left-wing extremism in recent years, fuelling a serious internal crisis in the country. While the clashes between the Maoists and the State have been highlighted by the media, academics and others, the situation...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge India