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Poverty and development into the 21st century / Tim Allen and Alan Thomas.
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Computer filePublication details: Oxford : Open University in association with Oxford University Press, 2000.Edition: Rev. edDescription: 460 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0198776268 (pbk.)
- 9780198776260 (pbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This is the second edition of the immensely successful international text Poverty and Development in the 1990s. Each chapter introduces the student to a key topic, and is written by a specialist in the field. learning aids include: chapter questions summaries key concepts photographs, cartoons, and maps lists of acronyms, abbreviations, and organizations
Originally published as: Poverty and Development in the 1990s. 1992.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part 1 Conceptions Of Poverty And Development
- 1 Poverty and the 'end of development'
- 2 Meanings and Views of Development
- Part 2 A World Of Problems?
- 3 Understanding Famine and Hunger
- 4 Diseases of Poverty
- 5 Unemployment and Making a Living
- 6 Is the World Over-populated?
- 7 Environmental Degredation and Sustainability
- 8 A World at War
- 9 Agencies of Development
- Part 3 The Great Transformation?
- 10 Diversity in Pre-Capitalist Societies
- 11 Colonialism, Capitalism, Development
- 12 The Power of Colonial States
- 13 Half a Century of Development
- 14 Socialist Models of Development
- 15 The Second 'Great Transformation'? Capitalism at the end of the Twentieth Century
- Part 4 Understanding Development Now
- 16 Sustainable globalization? The Global Politics of Development and Exclusion in the New World Order
- 17 Democratization,'Good Governance'and Development
- 18 Rethinking Gender Matters in Development
- 19 Technology, Poverty and Development
- 20 Life in the Cities
- 21 Taking Culture Seriously
- Part 5 The Future of Development
- 22 Genetic Engineering of Development? Myths and possibilities
- 23 The New Politics of Identity
- 24 Industrialization and Development: Prospects and Dilemmas