Key Issues in Development
Published on 19. June 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-4039-0045-6 (ISBN)
Description
Major new text provides a critical interdisciplinary introduction to the theory, practice and study of development at the start of the twenty-first century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Gordonsville
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
508 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-0045-6 (9781403900456)
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Book
07/2008
Palgrave Macmillan
€33.41
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Persons
DAMIEN KINGSBURY is Associate Head, School of International and Social Studies, Deakin University, Australia.JOE REMENYI is Director, International and Community Development, Deakin University, Australia.JOHN MCKAY is Professor, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia.JANET HUNT is Senior Lecturer in International Development, RMUT University, Australia.
Content
Introduction; What is Development? Reassessing Development Theory: "Modernisation" and Beyond; Aid and Development; Globalization and Development; The Economics of Development; Crises in Africa, Asia and Latin America; Political Development; Poverty and Development: The Struggle to Empower the Poor; Community Development; Gender and Development; Environment and Development