Presenting a psychological approach to development studies, this work focuses on the social aspects of aid and the motivational foundations. Designed as a practical tool for looking at development projects in a new and structured way, the book brings together many of the social aspects of development and aid, from the needs of the Northern donor to the public tensions between Third World host and foreign development agencies.

This text is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of the household in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across two major ethnic groups, Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, the authors discuss the links between gender and race, exploring development issues from a feminist perspective.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Our planet urgently needs strategies for assessing sustainable development. But it is not sufficient to limit radical thinking to environmental protection and resource management. It is necessary at the same time to focus on the socio-cultural symptoms of crisis which affect modern society. What is required now are holistic models of development which, within the same context, pay attention to the social, cultural and environmental issues for the contemporary global crisis. This text launches a strategy for sustainable development, setting out from a socio-ecological position and developing a...

The Straits of Malacca is one of the most important stretches of water in the world. Through its sea lanes have passed the ships of the major trading nations of the world. European colonialism from the 17th century onwards in the form of sailing ships gave it and the surrounding region significant geostrategic importance. Throughout the 20th century, the economic growth of South East Asia, built on trade and economic development, has continued to reinforce the importance of the Straits. This book is a study of the environment and development of the Straits. Taking an integrative approach, the...

This book analyses the success and violent repression of a milennarian religious peasant movement in the Dominican Republic. It considers the role of changes in the international economic system and the arrival of capitalism in the area.

This book demonstrates theoretically and empirically how aid practitioners shape the organisational, social and inter-cultural dynamics of development projects and industry.

This significant text examines the factors, both internal and external to, the World Bank that have influenced its urban development agenda. It explores how the bank become involved in urban lending, how it fashioned its ideas into projects and programmes and how it translated these into specific policies. It expertly uses the case of Zimbabwe to illustrate the complex relationships between the banks urban division and the various national and sub-national actors in framing an appropriate urban policy.
Arguing that the establishment of the bank's urban division and shifts in its urban...

Over the last twenty years the proportion of development cooperation resources earmarked for agricultural development has dwindled to between six and seven per cent of total bi- and multilateral Official Development Assistance. This is despite the fact that eighty per cent of the world's poor live in rural agricultural areas and that the poor are disproportionately affected when political, military and natural events lead to regional or global food shortages.

Brandt and Otzen's key book fills a gap in current literature, undertaking a wide-ranging conceptual reorientation of...

Nearly one half of the world's urban population lives in poverty and about 800 million people occupy substandard housing. This housing crisis has continued unabated despite over 20 years of research and policy. At the forefront of new policy initiatives, confirmed by recent conferences such as Habitat II in Istanbul, is an inititiative to afford greater priority to finance, yet, with the expediation that the provision of small quantities of finance to low-income households will bring real improvements to the quality and quantity of housing provision.