Development Studies

Bringing together the work of economists and sociologists, this collection analyses how social institutions contribute to an understanding of development...

The author argues that countries that have economic, social and ecological success at the end of the 20th century will be "active and learning societies" that attempt to solve their problems via an organizational and governance-related pluralism...

This book sheds light on why and how new humanitarian actors engage in humanitarian action and how their humanitarian activities are perceived in their (transnational) organisational environment. It provides detailed international and empirical comparisons between the ‘new’ humanitarians and traditi..

This book examines the paradigm shift in international social development in two parts. Part 1 deconstructs the paradigm of economic development and then examines the paradigm shift to social development. In this broad context, Part 2 deconstructs the paradigm of residual welfare policy and then exa..

This book explores the life worlds of people working in aid and analyses the processes that lead to the involvement in development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights work and what impact aid work has on the life-courses of aid workers, including their relationships with friends, family a..

This book explores the life worlds of people working in aid and analyses the processes that lead to the involvement in development cooperation, emergency relief and human rights work and what impact aid work has on the life-courses of aid workers, including their relationships with friends, family a..

Using econometric analysis, the author examines factors that determine patterns of aid giving including aggregate aid flows, aid from multilateral organisations and aid from bilateral donors such as Germany, Japan, the US and Arabia...

This book reasserts an enduring political economy approach to HIV through a critical (re)assessment. It discusses how risk and illness are conceptualised, and other issues concerning the role of the state and the fragmented nature of the response. It was first published as a special issue of Review ..

This book addresses key questions on biofuels, land and agrarian change within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. _x000D_ It was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies...

This book addresses key questions on biofuels, land and agrarian change within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. _x005F_x000D_ It was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies...

This book addresses key questions on biofuels, land and agrarian change within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. _x000D_ It was published as a special issue of the Journal of Peasant Studies...

The aim of this book is to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw from society..