Development Studies

This book identifies a dialogical tradition of community development and considers how such a tradition shapes practice within contemporary contexts and concerns – economic, social, political, cultural and ecological. This tradition builds on key thinkers such as Martin Buber, Paolo Freire and J. P...

Containing a wealth of student-friendly features this text provides an invaluable introduction to the issues and processes of the city in the Third World...

Assesses diverse social,economic,and environmental factors which affect the 3rd World. Illustrating the analysis with case studies it explores ways of managing tourism and evaluates its long-term contribution towards national development...

Assesses diverse social,economic,and environmental factors which affect the 3rd World. Illustrating the analysis with case studies it explores ways of managing tourism and evaluates its long-term contribution towards national development...

'If unequal opportunities are large within many countries they are truly staggering on a global scale', so concludes the World Bank’s 2006 World Development Report. It is a global unevenness within which the barriers to immigration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever highe..

This collection focuses on both the interactions between tourists and villagers, and the impacts of tourism at the local level, considering economic, social, cultural and environmental changes...

This collection focuses on both the interactions between tourists and villagers, and the impacts of tourism at the local level, considering economic, social, cultural and environmental changes...

An interdisciplinary case study of a project to dam the Narmada River in central and western India so that it can be used productively. Diverse opinions of proponents and opponents are expressed, as are studies on human rights of disadvantaged groups displaced by the work...

First published in 1990, this volume considers the question: is there any hope for economic recovery in Africa? Written by a team of leading development economists, the book takes a close look at the economic decline of Sub-Saharan Africa and provides a set of guidelines for promoting economic recov..

First published in 1967, this is a unique study of the establishment of the Bank of Rhodesia and Nyasland – a central bank and London-type money market in a financially externally dependent economy...

First Published in 1979. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Based on a comparative study of eight leading industrial powers this book argues that `new protectionism' is economically inefficient and countries should try to develop the policies which are least harmful to their trading partners...