"The work of development and anthropology in many ways share the same setting, yet their relationship has always been uneasy; their practitioners often separated by vast expanses of mutually incompatible premises, methods and objectives." "Ideal for newcomers to both fields, thi…
"The work of development and anthropology in many ways share the same setting, yet their relationship has always been uneasy; their practitioners often separated by vast expanses of mutually incompatible premises, methods and objectives." "Ideal for newcomers to both fields, thi…
"Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its mai…
These essays - written by scholars in many fields - examine the production, transmission and implementation of ideas about development within historical, political and intellectual contexts, emphasizing the changing meanings of development over the past 50 years.
The challenges of global governance -- The theoretical foundations of global governance -- Foundations of the pieces of global governance -- The United Nations : centerpiece of global governance -- Regional organizations -- Nonstate actors : NGOs, networks, and social movements …
"This major new textbook provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the main analytical approaches and their use in the study of third world politics and development. The text is organized around three key sections. The first outlines the difficulties in the various anal…
This new textbook provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the main analytical approaches to the study of third world politics and development. The author concludes the text with his own critique of the dominant civil society and social capital paradigm and advances ne…
This major new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the main analytical approaches and their use in the study of Third World politics and development.
"This major new textbook provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the main analytical approaches and their use in the study of third world politics and development. The text is organized around three key sections. The first outlines the difficulties in the various anal…
This major new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the main analytical approaches and their use in the study of Third World politics and development.
This report is the fourteenth in an annual series assessing major development issues. This report synthesizes and interprets the lessons of more than forty years of development experience. Together with last year's report on poverty and next year's on the environment, it seeks t…
Intellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries. "Global Intellectual Property Rights" shows how the new global rules of intellectu…
Global intellectual property in the form of patents and copyright has profound consequences for the ownership of knowledge in the 21st century. This volume examines the relationship between intellectual property and development.