"What is the just measure of Western obligations to Africa? As Africans and their supporters mark the two hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the United States and Great Britain, the question becomes increasingly salient. Calls for reparations for the ev…
"Reversed Realities uncovers the deeply entrenched, hence barely visible, biases which underpin mainstream development theory and account for the marginal status given to women's needs in current development policy. Naila Kabeer traces the emergence of 'women' as a specific cate…
Explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. Argues that globalization can be a positiv…
Despite ongoing instability and underdevelopment in post -Saddam Iraq, some parts of the country have realized relative security and growth. The Kurdish north, once an isolated outpost for the Iraqi army and local militia, has become an internationally recognized autonomous regi…
Explains the functions and powers of the main institutions that govern globalization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, along with the ramifications, both good and bad, of their policies. Argues that globalization can be a positiv…
Why do countries give foreign aid? Although many countries have official development assistance programs, this book argues that no two of them see the purpose of these programs in the same way. Moreover, the way countries frame that purpose has shaped aid policy choices past and…
Introduction : thinking big versus thinking small / Jessica Cohen and William Easterly -- The new development economics : we shall experiment, but how shall we learn? / Dani Rodrik. Comment by Sendhil Mullainathan. Comment by Martin Ravallion -- Breaking out of the pocket : do h…
An ethnography of development in practice, this book builds on recent work in the anthropology of development in its examination of the evolution and persistence of a number of key ideas about gender, technology and race.
For more than a decade, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and grassroots movements have formed transnational coalitions to reform the World Bank and the governments that it funds. This text examines their success in achieving this objective.
American individuals and institutions spent billions of dollars to ease global poverty and accomplished almost nothing. At last we have a realistic way forward. Presenting innovative and successful development interventions around the globe, Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel show how …
This edited volume brings together the work of scholars from different disciplines including sociology, political science and anthropology, and analyses how global institutions are embedded in local contexts within development aid. It examines theoretical and empirical implicati…
"Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Politics of Protection, based on research conducted in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2015, locates the struggl…
