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The Companion To Development Studies
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The Companion To Development Studies

Vandana Desai / Robert B. Potter

Oxford University Press: This new book brings together leading scholars from around the world to provide an international and interdisciplinary overview of twentieth-century development studies. This comprehensive companion's one hundred short chapters cover not only thinkers, schools, and movements but also highlight controversies and points of convergence between different d...

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Sinopsis

Oxford University Press:
This new book brings together leading scholars from around the world to provide an international and interdisciplinary overview of twentieth-century development studies. This comprehensive companion's one hundred short chapters cover not only thinkers, schools, and movements but also highlight controversies and points of convergence between different disciplinary traditions.

Índice

Contributors xiii
Preface xvii
The nature of development and of development studies
1 (58)
Editorial introduction
1 (2)
The Third World, developing countries, the South, poor countries
3 (4)
Klaus Dodds

Current trends and future options in development studies
7 (5)
Bjorn Hettne

The impasse in development studies
12 (4)
Frans J. Schuurman

Post-development
16 (4)
James D. Sidaway

The collapse of state socialism in the socialist Third World
20 (7)
Keith Sutton

Salah E. Zaimeche

The Asian crisis
27 (5)
Jonathan Rigg

The measurement of poverty
32 (5)
Howard White

Poverty in global terms
37 (4)
Anthony O'Connor

Development as economic growth
41 (4)
A.P. Thirlwall

Development as improving human welfare and human rights
45 (4)
Jennifer A. Elliott

Participatory development
49 (5)
Giles Mohan

Anthropologists and development
54 (5)
R.D. Grillo

Theories and strategies of development
59 (86)
Editorial introduction
59 (2)
Theories, strategies and ideologies of development
61 (4)
Robert B. Potter

Enlightenment and the era of modernity
65 (5)
Marcus Power

Smith, Ricardo and the world marketplace
70 (5)
David Sapsford

Dualistic and unilinear concepts of development
75 (5)
Tony Binns

Transport and development
80 (6)
David Hilling

Neo-liberalism, structural adjustment and poverty reduction strategies
86 (6)
David Simon

The Latin American structuralists
92 (5)
Colin Clarke

Classical dependency theories: from ECLA to Andre Gunder Frank
97 (5)
Dennis Conway

Nikolas Heynen

The New World Group of dependency scholars: reflections on a Caribbean avant-garde movement
102 (5)
Don D. Marshall

World-systems theory: centres, peripheries and semi-peripheries
107 (5)
Thomas Klak

Agropolitan and bottom-up development
112 (5)
Michael J.G. Parnwell

Community participation in development
117 (4)
Vandana Desai

Postmodernism and development
121 (6)
David Simon

Postcolonialism
127 (4)
Cheryl McEwan

Responsibility to distant others
131 (4)
David M. Smith

The changing role of the state in development
135 (4)
Richard Batley

Social capital and development
139 (6)
Erika McAslan

Rural development
145 (36)
Editorial introduction
145 (2)
Rural poverty
147 (4)
Joe Mullen

Rural livelihoods
151 (4)
Colin Murray

The Green Revolution
155 (4)
Graham P. Chapman

Food security
159 (6)
Sudhir Wanmali

Yassir Islam

Rural co-operatives
165 (5)
D.W. Attwood

B.S. Baviskar

Regenerating agriculture
170 (5)
Jules Pretty

Development and the intermediate classes, with special reference to India
175 (6)
Barbara Harriss-White

Industrialization and employment
181 (60)
Editorial introduction
181 (2)
Global shift: industrialization and development
183 (3)
Ray Kiely

The new international division of labour
186 (6)
Alan Gilbert

Global convergence, divergence and development
192 (4)
Robert B. Potter

Trade and industrial policy in developing countries
196 (5)
David Greenaway

Chris Milner

Export processing and free trade zones
201 (5)
Robert N. Gwynne

The informal sector and employment
206 (9)
Sylvia Chant

Child labour
215 (4)
Sally Lloyd-Evans

Technology, knowledge and development
219 (5)
Gordon Wilson

The 'resource curse' in developing countries
224 (6)
Richard M. Auty

Energy and development
230 (6)
B. Sudhakara Reddy

Tourism and development
236 (5)
Graham M.S. Dann

Urbanization
241 (32)
Editorial introduction
241 (2)
Urbanization in developing countries
243 (5)
David Satterthwaite

World cities and development
248 (5)
Robert B. Potter

Prosperity or poverty? Wealth, inequality and deprivation in urban areas
253 (4)
Carole Rakodi

Housing the urban poor
257 (5)
Alan Gilbert

Urbanization and environment in the Third World
262 (6)
David Satterthwaite

Urban agriculture
268 (5)
Kenneth Lynch

Environment
273 (46)
Editorial introduction
273 (2)
Sustainable development
275 (3)
Michael Redclift

Climate, environment and development
278 (6)
Duncan McGregor

The Rio Earth Summit
284 (5)
Mark Pelling

Local Agenda 21 and the Third World
289 (5)
Jonathan Pugh

The Brown Environmental Agenda
294 (4)
Tim Forsyth

Vulnerability and disasters
298 (7)
Piers Blaikie

Savannas and development
305 (5)
Jayalaxshmi Mistry

Tropical moist forests and development
310 (9)
Alan Grainger

Gender population and development
319 (62)
Editorial introduction
319 (2)
WID, GAD and WAD
321 (4)
Kate Young

Women and the state
325 (4)
Kathleen Staudt

Gender families and households
329 (5)
Ann Varley

Feminism and feminist issues in the South
334 (4)
Linda Peake

D. Alissa Trotz

Gender and empowerment: new thoughts, new approaches
338 (4)
Jane L. Parpart

Women in the global economy
342 (4)
Bama Athreya

Gender and structural adjustment
346 (6)
Lynne Brydon

Gender technology and livelihoods
352 (4)
Andrew Scott

Margaret Foster

Women and political representation
356 (4)
Shirin M. Rai

Population trends in developing countries
360 (7)
Ernestina Coast

Sexual and reproductive rights
367 (4)
Sonia Correa

Indigenous fertility control
371 (6)
Tulsi Patel

China's single child family policy
377 (4)
Delia Davin

Health and education
381 (44)
Editorial introduction
381 (2)
Malnutrition and nutrition policies in developing countries
383 (4)
Prakash Shetty

Quality of maternal healthcare and development
387 (4)
Maya Unnithan-Kumar

The social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS on development
391 (5)
Tony Barnett

Managing health and disease in developing countries
396 (4)
Stephen J. Connor

Children's work and schooling: a review of the debates
400 (5)
Ramya Subrahmanian

Young people, education and development
405 (4)
Rob Bowden

Adult literary and development
409 (5)
Raff Carmen

How pedagogical changes can contribute to the quality of education in tow-income countries
414 (5)
John Shotton

Management challenges in achieving education for all: South Asian perspectives
419 (6)
Caroline Dyer

Political economy of violence and insecurity
425 (46)
Editorial introduction
425 (2)
Women, children and viol

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