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The speed and cost effectiveness of new information technology has prompted many to view these innovations as a panacea for social and economic development. However, such a view flies in the face of continuing inequities in education, health, food, and infrastructure. This volume explores these issues - along with questions of access, privilege, literacy, training, and the environmental and health effects of information technologies in the developing world - arguing that a higher level of development does not always result from a higher level of technologization.

This book examines and compares the transformation of rural society and economy in the US and UK during the last half-century, and explores the significance of these transformations for community sustainability, the quality of life, and environmental quality.

For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization. The outcome was the emergence of one global human civilization, and one common future that will depend on the capacity of individuals and societies to manage the potentials for social development.This edited collection is dedicated to the discussion of four global trends: upgrading the rationality of organizations, individualization, the spreading of instrumental activism and universalization of value-normative systems. The mutual influence of these interrelated trends brings about both constructive and destructive effects in social life, social integration and change. Contributors examine questions such as: How do global trends pave their way in regions? What are the similarities and differences of regional development? How do agencies cope with the challenges of global trends in regional development?

This edited volume critically examines the neoliberal shifts in India's economic policies that have been implemented since 1991. Bringing together the leading figures in the discussion on India's economic policy, this volume is the authoritative critical study of India's New Economic Policy.

This book delves into the reasons behind and the consequences of the implementation gap regarding the right to prior consultation and the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America.

Civil Society in the Global South offers diverse accounts of civil society from the Global South, authored by researchers reflecting on their observations of civil society in their own countries.

Through an international range of research, this volume examines how informal urban street markets facilitate the informal and formal economy not merely in terms of the traditional concerns of labor and consumption, but also in regards to cultural and spatial contingencies. In many places, street markets and their populace have been marginalized and devalued. At times, there are clear governance procedures that aim to prevent them, yet they continue to emerge in even in the most institutionalized societies. This book gives serious consideration to what these markets reveal about urban life in a time of globalized, rapid urbanization and flows of people, knowledge and goods.

Around the world, discriminatory legislation often known as family law prevents women from accessing their human rights. Drawing on a range of global case studies and interviews, this book shows how women are contributing to legal reform, helping to shape non-discriminatory policies and counter gender-based violence.

Around the world, discriminatory legislation often known as family law prevents women from accessing their human rights. Drawing on a range of global case studies and interviews, this book shows how women are contributing to legal reform, helping to shape non-discriminatory policies and counter gender-based violence.

The End of the Developmental State? brings together leading scholars of development to assess the current status of the "developmental state" in several developing and transitional economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, the United Kingdom, China, South Africa, Brazil and India. Has the concept of the developmental state become outmoded? These authors would suggest not. However, they do argue that the historical trajectories of developmental states in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe suggest all too clearly that the concept must be re-examined critically and creatively. The range and diversity of their positions and their rejection of stale programmatic positions from the past will revitalize the debate on the role of the state in social and economic transformation in the twenty-first century. By bringing together careful comparative analyses of national cases, in both the Global North and South, the volume highlights pivotal conditions ΓÇô economic restructuring, domestic politics, epistemic shifts and ecological limits ΓÇô that are forcing revision of the goals and strategies of developmental states and suggests that states that ignore these new conditions will indeed see the "end of the developmental state".

This book brings together leading scholars of development to propose new theoretical understandings of the relationship between development and the state. Focusing on the role of the state in the developing and transitional economies of South Korea, Taiwan, Ireland, China, South Africa, Brazil and India, the volume outlines the major challenges - including global economic and ecological crises - and argues that these challenges require new forms of state interventions.

This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. By discussing and delineating a social development approach, the book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and wellbeing. Towards this end, several leading scholars have presented critical and inspiring thoughts on the significance and usefulness in development of genuine participation of people, bottom-up strategies, self-reliance, capacity building, and egalitarian and empowering partnerships. They also delve into hitherto neglected aspects of social development related to preparing personnel for social development work, ethical imperatives and a new social development paradigm. The worldΓÇÖs contemporary problems persist in part because the social development approach in its comprehensive form has not been planned and implemented at local, national and global levels. Social Development presents the optimistic argument that the application of social development ideas can help create a world in which almost all peopleΓÇÖs wellbeing can be significantly enhanced.

This book examines the paradigm shift in international social development in two parts. Part 1 deconstructs the paradigm of economic development and then examines the paradigm shift to social development. In this broad context, Part 2 deconstructs the paradigm of residual welfare policy and then examines the paradigm shift to rights-based social policy.

While an expanding literature has documented the economic upsurge of artisanal mining, this book is the first to explore its societal impact in detail. It demonstrates that, as a mode of mineral production, artisanal mining has the potential to be far more democratic and emancipating than preceding modes. It explores the paradoxes of this mode of mineral production alongside the expansion of large-scale mining investment in Africa, focussing on the Tanzanian experience. It considers how artisanal mining is configured in relation to local, regional and national mining investments, wealth accumulation and social class differentiation emanating from it. It focuses on work lives, mobility, and associated lifestyles of miners and people in mining settlements, asking where this historical interlude is taking them, their communities and countries in the future. The question of value transfers out of the artisanal mining sector, value capture by elites and changing configurations of gender, age and class differentiation all arise.

This study is the first in-depth examination of the environment and development of the Straits. Taking an integrative approach, the book argues that the region has an underlying unity which political divisions disguise.

This book explores the linkages between formal and informal housing finance drawing upon lessons of NGO and micro-finance practices.

Launching a strategy for sustainable development, setting out from a socio-ecological position and developing a model for a socially and culturally supportive community, or "life region", this text places emphasis on the situation of the provincial and peripheral regions of Europe.

Focusing on Kenya, and in particular on Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (MYWO), this book examines politics of inter-organizational development co-operation, examining issues of power, autonomy, and dependence.

Searching for Security examines how economic, political and environmental factors have contributed to increased gender insecurity in the last decade and discusses the gender responses to changing circumstances around the world.

Through an international range of research, this volume examines how informal urban street markets facilitate the informal and formal economy not merely in terms of the traditional concerns of labor and consumption, but also in regards to cultural and spatial contingencies. In many places, street markets and their populace have been marginalized and devalued. At times, there are clear governance procedures that aim to prevent them, yet they continue to emerge in even in the most institutionalized societies. This book gives serious consideration to what these markets reveal about urban life in a time of globalized, rapid urbanization and flows of people, knowledge and goods.

This volume re-imagines development through a careful and imaginative exploration of some of the many ways that culture ¿ in the broadest sense of lived experience and its representation ¿ can recentre resistance, suggest alternative models, and advance critiques of development as it is currently practised.

This volume addresses the question: to what extent and under what conditions does international migration contribute to local and national development?

The speed and cost effectiveness of new information technology has prompted many to view these innovations as a panacea for social and economic development. However, such a view flies in the face of continuing inequities in education, health, food, and infrastructure. This volume explores these issues - along with questions of access, privilege, literacy, training, and the environmental and health effects of information technologies in the developing world - arguing that a higher level of development does not always result from a higher level of technologization.

This volume examines the persistence of poverty - both rural and urban - in developing countries, and the response of local governments to the problem, exploring the roles of governments, NGOs, and CSOs in national and sub-national agenda-setting, policy-making, and poverty-reduction strategies.

For millennia, contact between societies was limited to trade or wars, a situation that changed profoundly with the development of global markets serving industrialization. The outcome was the emergence of one global human civilization, and one common future that will depend on the capacity of individuals and societies to manage the potentials for social development.This edited collection is dedicated to the discussion of four global trends: upgrading the rationality of organizations, individualization, the spreading of instrumental activism and universalization of value-normative systems. The mutual influence of these interrelated trends brings about both constructive and destructive effects in social life, social integration and change. Contributors examine questions such as: How do global trends pave their way in regions? What are the similarities and differences of regional development? How do agencies cope with the challenges of global trends in regional development?

This book explores how many issues related to development and governance ¿ including migration, disaster management, environmental justice, peace and security, sustainability, public-private partnerships, and terrorism ¿ impact the practice of social work. It takes a global, comparative approach, reflecting the global context in which social workers now operate.

Dams As Aid brings together key issues in the aid/environment/development debate. Through her examination of dams, Usher sheds light on wider issues of the political economy of aid. With detailed comparative case studies.

Demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. Discussing and delineating a social development approach, this book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and wellbeing.