| Description |
xi, 572 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Democratization, 'good goverance' and development / David Potter -- Rethinking gender matters in development / Ruth Pearson -- Technology, poverty and development / Gordon Wilson and Richard Heeks -- Life in the cities / Jo Beall -- Taking culture seriously / Tim Allen -- Genetic engineering of development? : myths and possibilites / Joanna Chataway, Les Levidow and Susan Carr -- New politics of identity / Tim Allen and John Eade -- Industrialization and development : prospects and dilemmas / Joanna Chataway and Tim Allen |
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Poverty and the 'end of development' Meanings and views of development / Alan Thomas -- Understanding famine and hunger / Ben Crow -- Diseases of poverty / Melissa Parker and Gordon Wilson -- Unemployment and making a living / David Wield and Joanna Chataway -- Is the world overpopulated? / Tom Hewitt and Ines Smyth -- Environmental degradation and sustainability / Philip Woodhouse -- World at war / Tim Allen -- Agencies of development / Alan Thomas and Tim Allen -- Diversity in pre-capitalist societies / Janet Bujra -- Colonialism, capitalism, development / Henry Bernstein -- Power of colonial states / David Potter -- Half a century of development / Tom Hewitt -- Socialist models of development / Andrew Kilmister -- Second 'great transformation'? : capitalism at the end of the twentieth century / John Harriss -- Sustainable globalization? : the global politics of development and exclusion in the new world order / Anthony McGrew |
| Summary |
This is the second edition of 'Poverty and Development in the 1990s. Each chapter introduces the student to a key topic, written by a specialist author, using questions, diagrams, tables, photographs and chapter summaries to illustrate and clarify the text |
| Analysis |
Development studies |
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International economics |
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Social issues & welfare |
| Notes |
First published as: Poverty and Development in the 1990's, 1992 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Capitalism -- Developing countries.
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Colonies -- Economic conditions.
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Poor -- Developing countries.
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Dependency.
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Poverty -- Developing countries.
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| SUBJECT |
Developing countries -- Dependency on foreign countries.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114839
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Developing countries -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037344
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Developing countries -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102080
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| Author |
Allen, Tim, 1956-
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Thomas, Alan, 1948-
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Open University.
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| LC no. |
00708883 |
| ISBN |
0198776268 |
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