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The companion to development studies / edited by Vandana Desai and Robert B. Potter.
LIBRA HD75 .C655 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Development economics.
- Economic development.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 562 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Arnold ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- This new book brings together leading scholars from around the world to provide an international and interdisciplinary overview of twentieth-century development studies. This comprehensive companion's one hundred short chapters cover not only thinkers, schools, and movements but also highlight controversies and points of convergence between different disciplinary traditions.
- Contents:
- The nature of development and of development studies
- Theories and strategies of development
- Rural development
- Industrialization and employment
- Urbanization
- Environment
- Gender, population and development
- Health and education
- Political economy of violence and insecurity
- Agents of development.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0340760516
- OCLC:
- 46694558
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