Challenging Global Inequality: Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9781403948243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 272 str.

Alastair Greig

Opis

This major new text provides systematic coverage of classical and more recent theoretical approaches to inequality and poverty, as well as a thorough assessment of development in the twentieth century and its prospects for the twenty-first. Taking full account of the impact of globalization, US hegemony, and the challenges of environmental sustainability and community participation, it sets out a range of alternative views, models and paths for development from the UN's Millennium Development Goals to their radical critics.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Story So Far.- The Nature of of Inequality and Poverty.- Measuring Development.- The Roots of the Development Project.- The Post-War Development Project.- The Framework of Early Twenty-First Century Development.- The Millennium Development Challenge.- Globalization and Inequality
.- Modernity, Development and their Discontents.- Development, Politics and Participation.- Conclusion: The Ends of Development and the End of Inequality.

O autorze

ALASTAIR GREIG is Reader in Sociology and Head of School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Australia.
DAVID HULME is Professor of Development Studies and Associate Director, Chronic Poverty Research Centre, Institute for Development and Management, University of Manchester, UK.
MARK TURNER is Professor of Development Policy and Management, University of Canberra, Australia.

Blurb

This major new text on development theory and practice takes as its starting point the challenge of overcoming global poverty and inequality. It traces the origins of the idea of Development Studies and introduces the main methodologies and theories of development, and examines the challenges of the twenty-first century.
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