Development Studies: Politics & Development

By Esbern Friis-Hansen, Janki Andharia, Suubi Godfrey

Democratic rural organizations can play an important role in helping their members, who are frequently poor farmers living in the margins of the economy, to escape their disadvantaged starting point and to gain access to financial services, political influence and profitable markets for their…

Hardback – 2017-12-27
Routledge
Routledge Explorations in Development Studies

Edited by Dirk Messner, Silke Weinlich

This book aims to pave the way for a new interdisciplinary approach to global cooperation research. It does so by bringing in disciplines whose insights about human behaviour might provide a crucial yet hitherto neglected foundation for understanding how and under which conditions global…

Paperback – 2017-12-21
Routledge

Edited by Dan Banik, Blessings Chinsinga

Malawi is among the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has witnessed significant improvements in relation to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. It exhibits some of the main challenges facing African democracies while they attempt to consolidate the benefits of…

Paperback – 2017-12-21
Routledge

Edited by Maurizio Carbone, Jan Orbie

Despite the growing academic interest in the development policy of the European Union (EU) and the booming literature on Europeanisation, the impact of Europe on national development policies has largely been overlooked. By exploring Member State interactions with and through the EU level across a…

Hardback – 2017-12-12
Routledge

By Yumiko Yasuda

There is much controversy over the development of new dams for hydropower, where concerns for environmental protection and the livelihoods of local people may conflict with the goals of economic development. This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face…

Paperback – 2017-12-08
Routledge

Edited by Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly

This volume engages with the topical issue of land rights in neoliberal India. It examines government policies, laws, land governance and land reforms from the perspective of social justice and people’s response to dispossession of land. Looking beyond the dominant discourse of land acquisition…

Paperback – 2017-12-08
Routledge India

By Liam Swiss

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide array of aid policies and priorities? This book suggests that this homogenization of policy represents the effects of common processes of globalization…

Hardback – 2017-12-05
Routledge
Routledge Global Cooperation Series

Edited by Hanne Kirstine Adriansen, Lene Møller Madsen, Stig Jensen

Higher education has recently been recognized as a key driver for societal growth in the Global South and capacity building of African universities is now widely included in donor policies. The question is; how do capacity building projects affect African universities, researchers and students?…

Paperback – 2017-12-04
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Edited by Caroline S. Archambault, Annelies Zoomers

This book explores the gendered dimensions of recent land governance transformations across the globe in the wake of unprecedented pressures on land and natural resources. These complex contemporary forces are reconfiguring livelihoods and impacting women’s positions, their tenure security and…

Paperback – 2017-12-04
Routledge

By Andrew Sanchez

Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is distributed across the region. Based upon field research among a…

Paperback – 2017-11-28
Routledge India
Exploring the Political in South Asia

Edited by Tania Abbiate, Markus Böckenförde, Veronica Federico

During the last decade of the 20th century, Africa has been marked by a "constitutional wind" which has blown across the continent giving impetus to constitutional reforms designed to introduce constitutionalism and good governance. One of the main features of these processes has been the promotion…

Hardback – 2017-11-23
Routledge
Routledge Global Cooperation Series

By Pedro Amakasu Raposo

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) was established in 1993 with the intention of creating opportunities for trade and investment on both sides and the promotion of sustainable development. In 2003, the conference translated Japanese aid policy to Africa into three key…

Paperback – 2017-11-22
Routledge
Routledge Contemporary Japan Series