Challenging Global Inequality - Development Theory and Practice in the 21st Century
HULME David , GREIG Alastair , TURNER Mark
Product details
- Categories: Development, Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid, Geopolitics
- Publisher: PALGRAVE-MACMILLAN
- ISBN: 9781403948243
- Binding: Paperback
- Language: English
Summary
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.
Table of contents
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