The development of different societies is a complex and diverse matter. This series incorporates a multidisciplinary approach to explore the impact of development theory and practice. In particular, the series highlights the importance of current research on:
* gender and equality
* sustainable development
* environment protection
* security.
Titles in the series offer authoritative insights into developmental issues of regional and global importance.
By Manohar S. Pawar
September 25, 2012
There is a tremendous need for community development practice in the Asia-Pacific region due to its size and prevailing diverse socio-economic, political and cultural needs and issues. Both developed and developing countries have been reemphasizing the importance of community development and have ...
By Thomas Grammig
September 10, 2012
Development and aid projects often fail to improve technological capacity. Their reform has been a widely acknowledged challenge for three decades. This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organizational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development ...
Edited
By Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu, Richard Peet
September 05, 2012
Conventional interpretations of the New Economic Policy introduced in India in 1991 see this program of economic liberalization as transforming the Indian economy and leading to a substantial increase in the rate of India’s economic growth. But in a country like India, growth is not enough. Who ...
Edited
By Manohar S. Pawar, David R. Cox
September 05, 2012
This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. By discussing and delineating a social development approach, the book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and ...
Edited
By Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian, Debashish Munshi
July 27, 2012
Big business, financial institutions, and capitalist powers have wreaked much havoc on the Third World in the name of development. This book re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture – in the broadest sense of lived experience and ...
By Ruth McAreavey
July 27, 2012
Rural development is inherently viewed as a positive thing; it is seen as something that brings together groups of individuals with automatic positive implications and outcomes. Policy rhetoric frequently uses popular terms such as involvement, participation and power sharing to describe rural ...
By Matthias Krause
July 27, 2012
According to recent estimates, around 6,000 people – mostly children under five – die every day from diseases caused by inappropriate water and sanitation (WS) services. Much of the academic and political debate surrounding this issue has focused on private sector participation. By ...
Edited
By David A. McDonald, Greg Ruiters
February 27, 2012
There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an ...
By G.K. Lieten
February 03, 2012
The child labour debate, the Child Rights Convention and the target of universal primary education in the Millennium Development Goals have drawn increasing attention to children in developing countries. Alongside, a debate has waged on the need for child participation and the appropriateness of ...
Edited
By Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, Mary C. King
February 03, 2012
The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity. ...
Edited
By Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers
December 09, 2011
The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, ...
By Anjan Chakrabarti, Anup Kumar Dhar
October 05, 2011
Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the form of primitive accumulation. Interrogating the ‘reformist-managerial’ and ‘radical-movementist’ approaches, it...