Introduction to International Development: Approaches Actors Issues and Practice

About this book

Introduction to International Development integrates the work of leading experts from disciplines as varied as geography history sociology political science economics gender studies and anthropology. Contributed chapters present foundational overviews as well as in depth coverage of issues at the heart of todays most pressing international debates. In addition to a new part focussed exclusively on the practice of international development with six new chapters on measuring poverty planning projects development ethics humanitarian assistance and global poverty reduction this edition has new chapters on alternatives to development gender and development China and the emerging economies and climate change.