Title:
Introduction to international development : approaches, actors, issues, and practice
Author:
Haslam, Paul Alexander, editor.
ISBN:
9780199018901
Edition:
Third edition.
Physical Description:
xxv, 606 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (colour) ; 26 cm
General Note:
Previous edition has subtitle: Approches, actors, and issues, 2013.
Contents:
Part 1. Theories and approaches in international development. Meaning, measurement, and morality in international development -- Imperialism and the colonial experience -- Theories of development -- Post-development and alternatives to development -- Gender and development : theoretical contributions, international commitments, and global campaigns -- Globalization and development -- Part 2. International development actors. State of the state : does the state have a role in development? -- National development agencies and bilateral aid -- The international financial institutions -- The United Nations and multilateral actors in development -- Private enterprise and development -- Civil society and development -- China and the emerging economies -- Part 3. Issues in international development. Debt and development -- Free trade, fair trade, and south-south trade -- Democracy -- Climate change, environment, and development -- Rural development -- Urban development : cities in the global south -- Development and health -- Conflict and development -- Information technologies and development -- Culture and development -- Part 4. Practice in international development. Understanding global poverty reduction : ideas, actors, and institutions -- Measuring and evaluating poverty -- Inequality and social policy -- Planning and appraising development projects -- Humanitarian assistance and intervention -- Ethics of development.
Abstract:
"Introduction to International Development integrates the work of leading experts from disciplines as varied as geography, history, sociology, political science, economics, gender studies, and anthropology. Contributed chapters present foundational overviews as well as in-depth coverage of issues at the heart of today's most pressing international debates. In addition to a new part focussed exclusively on the practice of international development with six new chapters on measuring poverty, planning projects, development ethics, humanitarian assistance, and global poverty reduction, this edition has new chapters on alternatives to development, gender and development, China and the emerging economies, and climate change."-- Provided by publisher.