{"product_id":"from-the-local-to-the-global-9780745334738","title":"From the Local to the Global","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA completely revised third edition of a classic development studies textbook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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).\u003cbr\u003e'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e  List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development - Stephen McCloskey \u003cbr\u003e  Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions\u003cbr\u003e  1. Measuring Human Development - Andy Storey \u003cbr\u003e  2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development - Máire Braniff and Paul Hainsworth \u003cbr\u003e  Part II: The Economics of Development\u003cbr\u003e  3. Overseas Development Aid: Is It Working? - Patrick Marren\u003cbr\u003e  4. Trade, Development and Inequality - Denis O’Hearn\u003cbr\u003e  5. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South - Nessa Ni Chasaide\u003cbr\u003e  Part III: Development Policy\u003cbr\u003e  6. Climate Change: Reorienting the Development Agenda - David Selby\u003cbr\u003e  7. Europe, Development and the Colonial Legacy - Gerard McCann \u003cbr\u003e  8. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators - Walden Bello\u003cbr\u003e  9. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development - Patricia Muñoz-Cabrera\u003cbr\u003e  10. The Complexity of Migration - Michal Cenker\u003cbr\u003e  Part IV: Regional Development\u003cbr\u003e  11. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? - Ronaldo Munck\u003cbr\u003e  12. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability - Heba M. Khalil\u003cbr\u003e  13. China: The New Face of Development - Russell Duncan\u003cbr\u003e  14. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa - Chrispin R. Matenga\u003cbr\u003e  Part V: Human Development\u003cbr\u003e  15. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices - Madeleine Leonard \u003cbr\u003e  16. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change - Stephen McCloskey\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015 - Gerard McCann \u003cbr\u003e  Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404307407191,"sku":"9780745334738","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745334738.jpg?v=1730486047","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-the-local-to-the-global-9780745334738","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}