An introductory text oriented towards the teaching of economics within the context of the major problems of development and underdevelopment in Third World nations.
We live in a world of unprecedented opulence, of a kind that would have been hard even to imagine a century or two ago. There are many new problems as well as old ones, including persistence of pov…
This book is about the ways in which ideologies shape the construction of knowledge for development. A central theme concerns the impact of neo-liberalism on contemporary development theory and res…
This book shows how social impact assessment (SIA), which emerged barely five decades ago, as a way to anticipate and manage potentially negative social impacts of building dams, power stations, ur…