Poverty and development into the 21st century /
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Originally published as: Poverty and Development in the 1990's, 1992.
Each chapter here introduces a key topic, and uses questions, diagrams, tables, photographs and chapter summaries to illustrate and clarify the text. The authors aim to help students to see through over-simple analyses and solutions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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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