Key Issues in Development - Kingsbury, Damien / Joseph Remenyi / John McKay / Janet Hunt
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The notion of development has evolved from a relatively straightforward concern with industrialization plus increasing gross domestic product to a much more complex mix of quality of life, participation, empowerment and good governance - all of which have remained elusive to many of the world's poor. This major new text provides a critical interdisciplinary introduction to the theory, practice and study of development at the start of the Twenty-first-century.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
What is Development?
Reassessing Development Theory: "Modernisation" and Beyond
Aid…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
The notion of development has evolved from a relatively straightforward concern with industrialization plus increasing gross domestic product to a much more complex mix of quality of life, participation, empowerment and good governance - all of which have remained elusive to many of the world's poor. This major new text provides a critical interdisciplinary introduction to the theory, practice and study of development at the start of the Twenty-first-century.

Table of Contents:
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
Autorenporträt
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.