Development Studies

Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World, 3rd Edition
John Rapley

This accessible text provides both an assessment of the current state of development theory and an extensive survey of the impact of evolving policies and practices throughout the developing    More >

Peace and the Public Purse: Economic Policies for Postwar Statebuilding
James K. Boyce and Madalene O'Donnell, editors

In the aftermath of violent conflict, how do the economic challenges of statebuilding intersect with the political challenges of peacebuilding? How can the international community help lay    More >

World Disasters Report 2006: Focus on Neglected Crises
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Which people are missing out on humanitarian aid because no journalists report on them, no donors are interested in them, no agencies have assessed their needs, or because their governments    More >

The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story
Asif Dowla and Dipal Barua

The Poor Always Pay Back demystifies Grameen II, an improved and more flexible version of the classical Grameen model that has been used to financially empower the poorest families in more    More >

More Pathways Out of Poverty
Sam Daley-Harris and Anna Awimbo, editors

More Pathways Out of Poverty, the follow-up to 2002's Pathways Out of Poverty and the companion book to the 2006 Global Microcredit Summit, explores new and revolutionary practices in    More >

Development and the Private Sector: Consuming Interests
Deborah Eade and John Sayer, editors

Presenting both analytical chapters and case studies ranging from El Salvador, to Kenya, to Timor-Leste, the authors of Development and the Private Sector explore how the private sector can    More >

Cinderella or Cyberella? Empowering Women in the Knowledge Society
Nancy J. Hafkin and Sophia Huyer, editors

Considering the manifestations of gender inequalities in the access, use, and control of information and communication technologies—and how those inequalities can be erased—the    More >

Promises Not Kept: Poverty and the Betrayal of Third World Development, 7th edition
John Isbister

The seventh edition of this perennial favorite includes discussions of major initiatives such as the Millennium Development Goals, changes in international politics and approaches to global    More >

The Search For Empowerment: Social Capital as Idea and Practice at the World Bank
Anthony Bebbington, Michael Woolcock, Scott Guggenheim, and Elizabeth Olson, editors

Focusing on debates within the World Bank about the value of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development, the contributors to this    More >

Development Brokers and Translators: The Ethnography of Aid and Agencies
David Lewis and David Mosse, editors

The contributors to Development Brokers and Translators, all anthropologists with practical experience in development work, show how ethnography can be an indispensable tool for    More >

Tourists, Migrants, and Refugees: Population Movements in Third World Development
Milica Z. Bookman

As travelers increasingly seek out the exotic wildlife and idyllic sunsets of the developing world, a complex relationship involving tourism, the migration of workers, and the involuntary    More >

Meeting the Employment Challenge: Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico in the Global Economy
Janine Berg, Christoph Ernst, and Peter Auer

Arguing that economic policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico favor markets over institutions and the international economy over the domestic to the detriment of the workforce in those    More >

Fighting Poverty: The Development-Employment Link
Rizwanul Islam, editor

While it has become abundantly clear that neither overall economic growth nor targeted microlevel interventions inevitably reduce poverty in developing countries, much of the development    More >

Overselling the Web?: Development and the Internet
Charles Kenny

Opinion leaders in government and business routinely tout the Internet's power as a force for economic and social development, and programs designed to bridge the digital divide are    More >

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