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Understanding Development

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Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world.  This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that are shaping development today, such as humanitarianism and the global refugee crisis, the growing number of fragile states, and the contested nature of trade and trade deals.  Building on the book's original framework, the second edition also includes three new chapters which explore development in relation to global policy formation, focusing on the end of the UN Millennium Development Goals in 2015 and the start of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which will run until 2030.  Designed to offer something different to the standard introductions to the topic, this issues-driven text examines the debates that have generated the most interest and passion among practitioners and non-practitioners alike. Always attentive to the contested and plural nature of the field, it makes the case for a genuinely interdisciplinary approach which takes full account of the impact of globalization. Both wide-ranging and critical, Understanding Development is the essential student guide to one of the most challenging subjects of our age.

Table of Contents:
List of illustrations viii Preface to the Second Edition x Acknowledgements xi Acronyms and Abbreviations xii Introduction: Understanding development 1 · A brief history of development 1 · Development and the United Nations system 6 · Conceptualizing development 9 1 Theorizing development 13 · From three worlds to the North-South divide 13 · The major economic approaches to development 18 · The East Asian ‘miracle’ 30 2 Approaching development 35 · Culture and development 25 · Anthropology and development 42 · Post-development perspectives 46 3 Health, education and population 54 · Population and development 54 · Health and development 64 · Education and development 71 4 Gender and development 80 · A brief history of gender and development 81 · Women and development 83 · Gender and development: critical debates 93 · Gender and development: future trajectories 101 5 Conflict, security and development 105 · The merging of development and security 105 · Fragile and failing states 109 · Human security 114 · Peace-keeping 117 · Post-conflict development 123 · The reform of the United Nations system 126 6 Trade and development 129 · The free trade debate 129 · Fair trade and development 138 · The WTO and the World Trading System 140 · Trade and development: a complex relationship 145 7 Participation in development 151 · Participatory development 151 · NGOs and development 158 · International institutions and representation 167 · Civil society, social capital and development 169 8 Financing development: foreign aid and debt 174 · The debt crisis in the developing world 174 · Dealing with debt 178 · Foreign aid 181 · Does aid work? 185 · The G8 Gleneagles agreement 192 · Enhancing the effectiveness of aid 195 · Global development co-operation 197 9 Sustainable development 200 · Development and the global environment 200 · Globalization, development and the environment 203 · Global governance and the environment 208 · Sustainable development 214 10 Globalization and development 223 · Approaching globalization 223 · Globalization and the developmental state 225 · Globalization and development 229 · Globalization and the network society 232 · Global cities and uneven development 238 11 Migration, displacement and humanitarianism 244 · Displacement, development and the refugee crisis 244 · Humanitarianism and development 252 · Migration, remittances and development 260 12 The UN Millennium Development Goals 266 · The UN Millennium Development Goals 267 · Criticism of the UN Millennium Development Goals 268 · UN Millennium Development Goals: the achievements 270 · How effective were the UN Millennium Development Goals? 282 13 The UN Sustainable Development Goals 287 · The formation of the Sustainable Development Goals 287 · The Sustainable Development Goals: critical perspectives 290 · The need for a data revolution 293 · Financing the Sustainable Development Goals 295 · The prospects for the Sustainable Development Goals 299 Conclusion: Development-future trajectories 305 · What has development actually achieved? 305 · In defence of development 307 · Development: future trajectories 309 Notes 318 Bibliography 324 Index 382


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781509510504
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 388
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Width: 173 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1509510508
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 933 gr


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