80-20 : development in an unequal world / authors, Bertrand Borg [and eighteen others] ; editors, Tony Daly, Ciara Regan and Colm Regan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borg, Bertrand, author.

Contributor:

Daly, Tony, editor.

Regan, Ciara, editor.

Regan, Colm, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Developing countries.

Economic assistance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (483 pages)

Edition:

Seventh edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : New Internationalist, [2016]

Summary:

A development education resource designed and written by an international group of authors and educationalists. It explores inequalities and injustices in an accessible and understandable fashion, with infographics, figures, graphs, photographs and cartoons. Now in its seventh edition, it is extensively used in universities, schools, adult and youth groups and NGOs. Tony Daly is co-ordinator of Irish development education and human rights organisation 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World and project manager for an NGO consortium website www.developmenteducation.ie. Previously, he led a pilot project advancing a human rights approach to community development with the British Institute for Human Rights, London and has been directly engaged in human rights education, development education, curriculum reform and research projects in Ireland, Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom and Australia for over 15 years. He holds degrees from University College Dublin and University College London. Ciara Regan is education consultant to 80:20 Educating and Acting for a Better World. Since 2010 she has worked directly on the developmenteducation.ie website and has researched and published in the area of women and development in the context of HIV and AIDS in Zambia. She has worked on community art projects in Lusaka, Zambia and across Dublin on a wide range of issues such as public accountability, women's rights, diversity and interculturalism. She holds degrees from NUI Galway and Birkbeck, University of London. Colm Regan initiated and, for many years edited 80:20 Development in an Unequal World - the reader is now widely used internationally, particularly in Africa. He is former co-ordinator of 80:20 in Ireland and has been professionally active for over 40 years in education for human rights, justice and human development - subjects he

has written extensively on. In this context, he has worked in development education in Ireland, the UK, Australia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Brazil and Zambia. He holds post graduate degrees from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver and McGill University, Montreal and now lives, writes and teaches in Gozo, Malta..

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Editor's Introduction

Numbers, Perspectives and Politics

PART ONE

1. Wealth, Poverty and Human Development - New Extremes

2. Development - the story of an idea

3. Sustainable Development - 'enough for all, for ever'

4. Human rights and Development - 'a right, not an act of charity'

5. Justice and Development - 'an illusion of innocence...?'

6. Development and Politics - two sides of the same coin?

7. From the Poor to the Rich

8. Women, Development and (dis)empowerment

9. Climate Change and Development

PART TWO: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

10. Migration and Development

11. International Trade and Development Today

12. Food is Power

13. Basic Needs, Population and Development

14. Debating Aid - moving beyond pantomime

15. Making Change - ideas, experiences and arguments

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78026-317-1

OCLC:

1024277905