Development Studies

This recognises the significance of place in the developing world, challenging Western feminist and post-colonial approaches in the analysis of the changing lives of the women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania...

This book provides accessible analyses of disasters and development, addressing planning and response activities that accompany this field. Social, economic and environmental hazards, vulnerabilities and risks are examined in an interdisciplinary and authoritative way...

Humanitarian crises, whether they result from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse are usually perceived as complete breaks from normality, spurring special emergency policies and interventions. This book questions this assumption, arguing that there are both continuities and discontinui..

This reissue, first published in 1980, is based on the experiences of the International Extension College in developing distance teaching. The volume begins by reviewing the world problems of educational quality and quantity, and then examines the ways in which print, broadcasts and group study have..

First published in 1968, the central aim of this work is to examine the major problems of development confronting contemporary tropical countries. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book examines the significance of natural and human resources in development planning in tropical countries; ..

First Published in 1964. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book explores the place of education in development debates and provides a systematic and a theoretical overview of the main approaches to the subject. It emphases the fact that education is profoundly shaped by national and local cultures even if many issues are shared across locations...

This book explores the place of education in development debates and provides a systematic and a theoretical overview of the main approaches to the subject. It emphases the fact that education is profoundly shaped by national and local cultures even if many issues are shared across locations...

This reissue examines the crucial question of how the education systems of Third World countries continue to be influenced by the former colonial powers, arguing that decisions and views made early in the twentieth century cannot always be so readily condemned from the standpoint of the 1980s. _x000..

This book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls’ and women’s education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement, the book narrates the stories of highly educated Tanzanian women. This fresh take on education, gender, development a..

Through a collection of insightful and provocative chapters, this book will examine the role of learning in shaping new discourses and practices of development. By drawing on contributions from activists, researchers, education and development practitioners from around the world, this book situates ..

Why do massive inflows of capital so rarely achieve lasting development in the Third World? This study of the Arab region's oil boom argues that self-reliance and social policy are just as central to sustained economic progress...