Development studies Books

Ausführliche Darstellung der Nationalökonomie oder der Staatswirthschaft presents a comprehensive exploration of national economics, authored by Jean Baptiste Say and Karl Eduard Morstadt. This significant work delves into the principles and practices...

"The Redemption of Africa; a Story of Civilization" (Volume 2) by Frederick Perry Noble offers a comprehensive historical overview of the influence of Christian missions on the African continent during the late 19th century. This volume delves into the...

The book provides a valuable cross-sectoral and international critical reflection on the theory and practice of Climate Compatible Development. The contributors discuss the feasibility of achieving CCD, mechanisms that may support progress towards...

In addressing humanitarian crises, the international community has struggled in making the transition from short-term relief to long-term rehabilitation and crisis prevention. This book aims to shed light on this continuum of humanitarian crisis...

This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving landscape of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), a critical approach to peacebuilding, economic development, and social transformation gaining increasing stature during the last...

La Mauritanie by Etienne Richet, with a preface by Paul Painlevé, offers a historical perspective on Mauritania during the early 20th century. This work provides insights into the region under French colonial influence. Richet's exploration of...

Most studies of the so-called tribal communities in India stress their social, economic, and political differences from communities that are organized on the basis of caste. It was this apparent contrast between tribal and caste lifestyle and, moreover,...

Poverty is an issue facing countries around the globe, yet it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon caused by a variety of factors, differing from context with no linear chain of cause and effect. The occurrence and persistence of poverty is influenced by an...

Talented political scientist, M Amphas Mampoua exposes unexpected reality of hopeless continent that has transformed to a continent of hope with wealth that fascinates us Its subsoil is full of natural resources which makes Africa rich everywhere,...

Minns argues that the industrial transformations of Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan were based on the existence of powerful developmentalist states in each. It explores the origins of such states and their dynamics and connects the form of autonomy they...

The authors show that with violent conflict in the developing world as the critical issue for the twenty-first century, and conflict prevention a central security problem for the developed and developing world, self-determination movements can only be...

There is a major contradiction in contemporary politics: there has been a wave of democratization that has swept across much of the world, while at the same time globalization appears to have reduced the social forces that have built democracy...

This edited collection investigates what progress has been made in the field of social demography in South Africa since the democratic dispensation in the country. Contributors offer a compilation of in-depth analytical studies of substantive, technical...

The Global News Challenge tackles one of the timeliest topics in mass communication today-the challenges facing international broadcasters with universal branding strategies in developing countries. This book employs a global perspective to explore the...

This book, first published in 1988, considers the problems that developing countries face when importing technology from abroad. The major issues - technical, economic, political - are analysed in the case of one particular country: Korea. The book...

This machine would be a useful addition to any woodwork shop, enabling new products to be made without the use of electricity. It could be the basis for a village industry, and can be built by most small metal workshops and blacksmiths.

Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being had over the nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous policy statements made by northern governments, NGOs, and...

The success of any venture, whatever its size, depends on proper financial control. This book offers a step-by-step guide to basic accounting and financial management techniques. It is written in plain language for people who have no previous experience...

This book aims to pave the way for a new interdisciplinary approach to global cooperation research. It does so by bringing in disciplines whose insights about human behaviour might provide a crucial yet hitherto neglected foundation for understanding how...

This book explores how the colonial state left a legacy that continues to affect the post-colonial state in the era of globalization. It analyzes the formation of two types of post-colonial states, capitalist and proto-capitalist varieties, which are...

This book investigates the relationship between heritage and development from the global visions articulated by UNESCO and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to local activism, livelihood innovations and political strategies employed in diverse...

While entrepreneurship is widely cited as playing a key role in economic development, job creation, and advances in well-being in capitalist nations, there has been an overwhelming focus on the firm, firm founders, and founders' strategies and...

What is the role of culture in the innovation dynamic of small firms within the context of their territorial environments? How do shared values, beliefs and practices underpin the knowledge production process that leads to innovation? In what way do...

The literature on innovation in Africa is rapidly expanding, and a recurring thread in the emergent literature is the pervasiveness of systemic weaknesses that inhibit the innovation process. Despite these, firms are able to innovate in Africa. It is...

The closure of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 prompted the need for a book of this kind. An interdisciplinary group of global health scholars contribute to the understanding of the emerging and fast-growing problem of the dual burden of...

The European Union has been one of the most vocal advocates of 'sustainable development', particularly in its dealings with developing countries. Even prior to the formulation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the EU has insisted upon the...

Few books in the history of Development Studies have had an impact like The Development Dictionary - A Guide to Knowledge as Power, which was edited by Wolfgang Sachs and published by Zed Books in 1992. The Development Dictionary was crucial in...

Das Buch ""Die Ethnographisch-Anthropologische Abtheilung Des Museum Godeffroy In Hamburg (1881)"" von Johann Dietrich Eduard Schmeltz beschreibt die ethnographische und anthropologische Sammlung des Godeffroy-Museums in Hamburg im Jahr 1881. Der Autor...

The Pioneer of Progress: Or The Early Closing Movement in Relation to the Saturday Half-Holiday and the Early Payment of Wages is a book written by John Dennis and published in 1861. It documents the early closing movement in the United Kingdom, which...

The Factory Question is a book written by Robert Hyde Greg in 1837, which explores the impact of factory work on the health and morals of those employed in factories. The book is a response to the growing concern over the working conditions in factories...

Sociology, written by Franklin Henry Giddings and first published in 1908, is a comprehensive study of the social world and its structures. The book explores the various aspects of society, including its origins, development, and organization, as well as...

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This Handbook provides an authoritative multidisciplinary overview of contemporary African international migration. It endeavours to present a single source on issues such as migration history, trends, migrant profiles, narratives, migration-development...

This volume studies the intersection of capital and ecology primarily in one of the most sensitive geographies of the world, the Eastern Himalayan region.

This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive account of social work, social welfare, and social development in Nigeria from a postcolonial perspective.

This book is a narrative non-fiction, based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and the Indian Ocean Region. It specifically explores the impact of climate change on Fish and Fishers, and the mutual entanglements in...

This book focusses on social work in the time of COVID-19. Social workers, their clients, as well as the organisations they represent have been affected by the pandemic in multiple ways.

Why is it so hard for international development organizations-even ones as well-resourced and influential as the World Bank-to generate and sustain change in the way things are done in those countries where they work? This book provides an answer to the...

This book examines the sociological consequences of disaster relief and recovery, and uncovers its impact on the communities that were affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. It is the most extensive and intensive study of post-disaster community...