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A completely revised third edition of a classic development studies textbook

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'An ideal lift off point for anyone interested in the issues that underpin poverty and injustice at local and global levels. It combines accessible, informative writing on the most essential international development issues' -- Marina Sitrin, author of They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (with Dario Azzellini, Verso, 2014) and Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books, 2012).
'Of global value to a radically changing world. It is essentially a survey of all the issues that affect the global South and shape the global North' -- Hector Maldonado Felix, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, and founder of the NGO Asociacion Gestion Salud y Poblacion.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development - Stephen McCloskey
Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions
1. Measuring Human Development - Andy Storey
2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development - Máire Braniff and Paul Hainsworth
Part II: The Economics of Development
3. Overseas Development Aid: Is It Working? - Patrick Marren
4. Trade, Development and Inequality - Denis O’Hearn
5. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South - Nessa Ni Chasaide
Part III: Development Policy
6. Climate Change: Reorienting the Development Agenda - David Selby
7. Europe, Development and the Colonial Legacy - Gerard McCann
8. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators - Walden Bello
9. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development - Patricia Muñoz-Cabrera
10. The Complexity of Migration - Michal Cenker
Part IV: Regional Development
11. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? - Ronaldo Munck
12. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability - Heba M. Khalil
13. China: The New Face of Development - Russell Duncan
14. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa - Chrispin R. Matenga
Part V: Human Development
15. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices - Madeleine Leonard
16. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change - Stephen McCloskey
Conclusion: Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015 - Gerard McCann
Notes on Contributors
Index

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: 20/05/2015
      ISBN13: 9780745334738, 978-0745334738
      ISBN10: 0745334733
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A completely revised third edition of a classic development studies textbook

      Trade Review
      'An ideal lift off point for anyone interested in the issues that underpin poverty and injustice at local and global levels. It combines accessible, informative writing on the most essential international development issues' -- Marina Sitrin, author of They Can't Represent Us: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy (with Dario Azzellini, Verso, 2014) and Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina (Zed Books, 2012).
      'Of global value to a radically changing world. It is essentially a survey of all the issues that affect the global South and shape the global North' -- Hector Maldonado Felix, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, and founder of the NGO Asociacion Gestion Salud y Poblacion.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements
      List of Abbreviations
      Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development - Stephen McCloskey
      Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions
      1. Measuring Human Development - Andy Storey
      2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development - Máire Braniff and Paul Hainsworth
      Part II: The Economics of Development
      3. Overseas Development Aid: Is It Working? - Patrick Marren
      4. Trade, Development and Inequality - Denis O’Hearn
      5. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South - Nessa Ni Chasaide
      Part III: Development Policy
      6. Climate Change: Reorienting the Development Agenda - David Selby
      7. Europe, Development and the Colonial Legacy - Gerard McCann
      8. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators - Walden Bello
      9. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development - Patricia Muñoz-Cabrera
      10. The Complexity of Migration - Michal Cenker
      Part IV: Regional Development
      11. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? - Ronaldo Munck
      12. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability - Heba M. Khalil
      13. China: The New Face of Development - Russell Duncan
      14. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa - Chrispin R. Matenga
      Part V: Human Development
      15. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices - Madeleine Leonard
      16. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change - Stephen McCloskey
      Conclusion: Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015 - Gerard McCann
      Notes on Contributors
      Index

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