Development studies books

For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they...  Read More >>

Grassroots Social Security in Asia investigates the role of mutual associations in providing income protection to...  Read More >>

The global development community is teeming with different ideas and interventions to improve the lives of the world's...  Read More >>

In the last decade a new tool has been developed in the global war against official corruption through the introduction...  Read More >>

Examining the flow of technical knowledge between the US, Taiwan and Mainland China over the last sixty-five years,...  Read More >>

From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been...  Read More >>

Provides an analysis of theories concerning the origins of economic inequality between nations. The author investigates...  Read More >>

The Green Revolution - the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s - came under...  Read More >>

Presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary developments and research into the geography of the Third World,...  Read More >>

This reissue, first published in 1969 brings together structural and analytical studies of seven single African...  Read More >>

Part of the IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series , this handbook is one in a series being...  Read More >>

Using examples from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, this book shows there are forms of development...  Read More >>

This volume, first published in 1982, is a collection of original essays written to honour Professor W. Arthur Lewis,...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, this volume was written to shed some light upon the nature and environmental consequences...  Read More >>

Contains an authoritative assessment of the extent to which population is likely to grow over the next 50 to 100...  Read More >>

First published in 1966, this work summarises the theories of economic growth, both ancient and modern, and presents...  Read More >>

First published in 1961, this reissue examines the contemporary economic problems of Mauritius alongside those social...  Read More >>

Considers the main aspects of foreign aid to developing countries in terms of economic concepts and principles....  Read More >>

Assessing both the macro- and micro-economic levels of the contemporary African Debt Crisis, this book looks at...  Read More >>

This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the...  Read More >>

This book discusses the law of safeguard measures as laid down in the WTO agreements and cases decided by the Panel...  Read More >>

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World at the Crossroads: Towards a Sustainable, Equitable and Liveable World .  Read More >>

Provides an account of the problems faced by women in the management of land, water, forests, energy and human settlements....  Read More >>

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