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From the local to the global : key issues in development studies / edited by Gerard McCann and Stephen McCloskey.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development.
- Economic assistance.
- Debts, External.
- Development economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Pluto Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A completely revised third edition of a classic development studies textbook.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development
- Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions
- 1. Measuring Human Development
- 2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development
- Part II: The Economics of Development
- 3. Overseas Development Aid: Is It Working?
- 4. Trade, Development and Inequality
- 5. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South
- Part III: Development Policy
- 6. Climate Change: Reorienting the Development Agenda
- 7. Europe, Development and the Colonial Legacy
- 8. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators
- 9. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development
- 10. The Complexity of Migration
- Part IV: Regional Development
- 11. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future?
- 12. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability
- 13. China: The New Face of Development
- 14. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa
- Part V: Human Development
- 15. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices
- 16. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change
- Conclusion: Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 13, 2015).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781783712823
- 1783712821
- 9781783712816
- 1783712813
- OCLC:
- 909895980
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