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Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study for modern social science.

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Beyond the Sociology of Development Economy and Society in Latin America and Africa

Beyond the Sociology of Development: Economy and Society in Latin America and Africa

1st Edition

Edited By Ivar Oxaal, Tony Barnett, David Booth
March 28, 2013

Conceived as a response to the economic naïvety and implicit metropolitan bias of many 1950s and 60s studies of ‘the sociology of development’ , this volume, first published in 1975, provides actual field studies and theoretical reviews to indicate the directions which a conceptually more adequate ...

Capital Formation and Economic Development Studies in the Economic Development of India

Capital Formation and Economic Development: Studies in the Economic Development of India

1st Edition

Edited By P. N. Rosenstein-Rodan
March 28, 2013

First published in 1964, this series of studies, compiled by the India team of Centre of International Studies at MIT, represents an important contribution to methods in planning for development, which will be of relevance to all those working in the field, irrespective of country. The results are ...

Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment

Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment

1st Edition

By Cristóbal Kay
March 28, 2013

Upon its publication in 1989, this was the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Latin American School of Development and an invaluable guide to the major Third World contribution to development theory. The four major strands in the work of Latin American Theorists are: structuralism, ...

Rich World, Poor World

Rich World, Poor World

1st Edition

By Geoffrey Lean
March 28, 2013

This reissue, first published in 1978, confronts a whole range of international development issues: hunger, energy, supply, population growth, pollution, the state of the cities, nuclear proliferation. Geoffrey Lean explains the interdependent contemporary crises within developing nations and ...

The Politics of United States Foreign Aid

The Politics of United States Foreign Aid

1st Edition

By George M. Guess
March 28, 2013

First published in 1987, this reissue explores contemporary United States foreign aid policies and thinking in the Reagan era. The author argues that aid policy is often confused as a result of bureaucratic decision-making processes. The book contrasts the experience of the many countries where ...

The Sociology and Politics of Development A Theoretical Study

The Sociology and Politics of Development: A Theoretical Study

1st Edition

By Baidya Nath Varma
March 28, 2013

Originally published in 1980, this work answers the crucial question of how social change should be guided in the developing countries. Professor Varma begins by posing the problems of the general scope of modernization and the general criteria used in the modernization process. He examines ...

The Third World in Soviet Military Thought

The Third World in Soviet Military Thought

1st Edition

By Mark Katz
March 28, 2013

First published in 1982, this study traces the development of Soviet military thinking on the Third World and assesses its importance for the conduct of Soviet foreign policy. Changes in Soviet military thought often reflect changes in Soviet attitudes towards and expectations from involvement in ...

The Wealth of Poor Nations

The Wealth of Poor Nations

1st Edition

By C Suriyakumaran
March 28, 2013

Initially published in 1984, this book considers the contemporary condition of the Third World economy, investigating the structural factors and historical forces, mostly operating in the capitalist world, which underlie the experience of the Third World in the post-war era. The book provides a ...

Theories of Development

Theories of Development

1st Edition

By Peter Preston
March 28, 2013

Dr Preston’s book, first published in 1982, presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the recent, neo-Marxist, debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis. He identifies a series of ‘schools’ and ...

Third World Industrialization in the 1980s Open Economies in a Closing World

Third World Industrialization in the 1980s: Open Economies in a Closing World

1st Edition

Edited By Raphie Kaplinsky
March 28, 2013

First published in 1984, this work explores the issues surrounding the industrialisation of the Third World at the beginning of the 1980s. The expectation that Newly Industrialising Countries would facilitate industrial growth via an outward-orientated strategy had begun to be the combination of ...

Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa Essays in Honour of Robert Gardiner

Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa: Essays in Honour of Robert Gardiner

1st Edition

Edited By James Pickett, Hans Singer
March 28, 2013

First published in 1990, this volume considers the question: is there any hope for economic recovery in Africa? Written by a team of leading development economists, the book takes a close look at the economic decline of Sub-Saharan Africa and provides a set of guidelines for promoting economic ...

Trade and Developing Countries

Trade and Developing Countries

1st Edition

By Kathryn Morton, Peter Tulloch
March 28, 2013

This reissue, initially published in 1977, is an introduction to contemporary trading positions and problems of developing countries. The authors examine the main export options of Third World countries and consider the roles of the key international organisations – GATT, UNCTAD, etc – and those of...

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