Development Policy

The book shows that the trend towards developing partnerships between non-state providers and the state has resulted in both benefits and tensions for achieving education millennium development goals._x005F_x000D_ It was published as a special issue of Development in Practice...

This book shows how emerging donors use their provision of development assistance to serve national interests, allowing them to gain soft power in the international sphere. Technical cooperation in particular can enable donors to position themselves as a global knowledge leader. With reference to Br..

This collection reviews property rights from China and India, to Turkey, Mexico and Malaysia, covering issues such as customary rights and privatization, mining and pastoralism, dam-building and irrigation, but also state-owned banks, trade unions and notaries. It was originally published as a speci..

Tracing the historical and intellectual origins of post-development, Arresting Development, explores the impact of post-development theorizing on the study of international development and it compares across "cultures" of theory, methodology and practice to achieve universal understandings about val..

Tracing the historical and intellectual origins of post-development, Arresting Development, explores the impact of post-development theorizing on the study of international development and it compares across "cultures" of theory, methodology and practice to achieve universal understandings about val..

Nearly half of the global population live in Asia. South Asia alone has more absolutely poor people compared to entire sub-Saharan Africa. Thus, how water is managed in Asia, including institutional and legal frameworks, is an important consideration. The book provides authoritative analyses of wate..

In what ways did economic considerations affect the decision by Britain and France to make their Black African colonies independent? Why were early expectations that independence would lead to rapid and sustained economic development in Africa for the most part disappointed? This title, originally p..

Development-caused forced displacement and involuntary resettlement has increased exponentially in recent years. This book challenges existing weak policies and dysfunctional practices, and proposes a robust set of solutions to improve the performance of resettlement policies and to tackle injustice..

This book investigates the rise of China as an emerging major power and seeks to answer the question whether China’s rise stabilises other non-democratic leaders in the world. By comparing China’s bilateral relations to three Asian developing countries – Cambodia, Burma and Mongolia - with varying p..

Collective Impact (CI) is intended to help community leaders engage participants in strategic planning initiatives. This book examines successful practices that apply CI principles to a variety of community development issues including reducing poverty. It was originally published as a special issue..

This book, based on extensive original research, explores cultural exclusion in China, in particular with regard to ethnic minorities, demonstrating how educational inequality and cultural exclusion lie at the root of the widely recognised problems of poverty and economic inequality...

This book  significantly expands the human development approach. It concentrates on public spending for human development and shows how the broader paradigm of public accountability — extending beyond democratic accountability to also include bureaucratic and judicial institutions as well as modes o..