Development studies books

This book conceptualises the ongoing hydropower expansion in Southwest China as a socio-political and transnational...  Read More >>

A comprehensive examination of how is corruption organised and contested in Kinshasa, and what this tells us about...  Read More >>

A comprehensive examination of how is corruption organised and contested in Kinshasa, and what this tells us about...  Read More >>

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Offering insights on violence in conservation in Africa, this timely book demonstrates how and why the state pursues...  Read More >>

This book explores the reforms sweeping China's educational sector. Traditionally dominated by rote learning, China's...  Read More >>

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This book brings together scholars from across the behavioural sciences and public health to examine substance use...  Read More >>

This book mainly focuses on the miracle of China’s foreign trade in the past 40 years from five perspectives: first,...  Read More >>

This book critically discusses the multi-dimensional contemporary issues within the ambit of the driving forces,...  Read More >>

This book offers the assessment of Myanmar’s societal changes, development aspects, and political situation over...  Read More >>

This Handbook explores the activities of the UN development system (UNDS), the largest operational pillar of the...  Read More >>

This book addresses contemporary issues on civic and citizenship education, challenging not just schools but society...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the analysis of transportation economics development with spatiotemporal characteristics in...  Read More >>

This book provides a comparative analysis of how communities have developed people-based resilience in response...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the concept of ‘home’ or ‘place of origin’ (expressed in Tamil as ‘Ur’) and its various dimensions,...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates how illicit social orders (established by gangs, terrorists, mafias, rebels, or other insurgent...  Read More >>

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For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a real-life story of four street children...  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of role of entrepreneurship, technology commercialisation and innovation...  Read More >>

This book will answer these questions: What kind of technologies will be UK and US governments and businessmen who...  Read More >>

The book reviews globalisation by identifying causes behind the discontent it has produced in recent years. It variously...  Read More >>