Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
About the Book Series
The series features innovative and original research at the regional and global scale. Its scope extends to scholarly works that take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.
In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods.
The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from junior authors. To submit proposals, please contact the Development Studies Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
Aid and Technical Cooperation as a Foreign Policy Tool for Emerging Donors: The Case of Brazil
1st Edition
By Déborah Barros Leal Farias
September 30, 2020
The question of why countries give aid and assistance to other countries has long been a topic of debate- is it altruism, or selfishness? The assumption is sometimes made that donors from developing countries might be more motivated by altruism than ‘traditional’ western donors. This book ...
Information Communication Technology and Poverty Alleviation: Promoting Good Governance in the Developing World
1st Edition
By Jack J. Barry
September 30, 2020
Despite global economic disparities, recent years have seen rapid technological changes in developing countries, as it is now common to see people across all levels of society with smartphones in their hands and computers in their homes. However, does access to Information Communication ...
Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs: Insights from Organisational Theory
1st Edition
By Tiina Kontinen
September 30, 2020
Learning and Forgetting in Development NGOs draws on a range of theoretical approaches and empirical evidence to explore how development organisations learn or fail to learn from experience. Despite the overwhelming discourses of NGOs as learning organisations, little is known about the phenomenon ...
Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: Creating Values that Matter
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan, Philip Woodhouse
September 30, 2020
Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives. These new values, assigned to areas previously considered outside of economic systems, often act to qualify, alter or replace former non-pecuniary values. Valuing ...
Engendering Transformative Change in International Development
1st Edition
By Gillian Fletcher
August 06, 2020
The Sustainable Development Goals were launched in 2015 with grand ambitions for ending poverty, protecting the planet, and ensuring prosperity for all, with ‘no one left behind’. However, these goals will be impossible to achieve without addressing inequity, inequality, marginalisation, and ...
Democratic Rural Organizations: Thresholds for Evolution in Africa and Asia
1st Edition
By Esbern Friis-Hansen, Janki Andharia, Suubi Godfrey
December 12, 2019
Democratic rural organizations can play an important role in helping their members, who are frequently poor farmers living in the margins of the economy, to escape their disadvantaged starting point and to gain access to financial services, political influence and profitable markets for their ...
Chinese Hydropower Development in Africa and Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Global Dam-Building
1st Edition
Edited
By Giuseppina Siciliano, Frauke Urban
April 15, 2019
In recent years, both Chinese overseas investment and hydropower development have been topics of increasing interest and research, with Chinese actors acting as financiers, developers, builders and sub-contractors. Chinese Hydropower Development in Africa and Asia explores the governance and ...
Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development: Rethinking Opportunities and Agency from a Human Development Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Aurora Lopez-Fogues, Firdevs Melis Cin
March 05, 2019
Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development investigates to what extent young people have access to fair opportunities, the factors influencing their aspirations, and how able they are to pursue these aspirations and to carry out their life plans. The book positions itself in the ...
United States Assistance Policy in Africa: Exceptional Power
1st Edition
By Shai Divon, Bill Derman
January 17, 2019
From the end of WWII to the end of the Obama administration, development assistance in Africa has been viewed as an essential instrument of US foreign policy. Although many would characterise it as a form of aid aimed at enhancing the lives of those in the developing world, it can also be viewed as...
Gender, Power and Knowledge for Development
1st Edition
By Lata Narayanaswamy
June 20, 2018
Knowledge-for-development is under-theorised and under-researched within development studies, but as a set of policy objectives it is thriving within development practice. Donors and other agencies are striving to improve the flow of information within and between decision-makers and so-called ‘...
Global Food Security and Development Aid
1st Edition
By Ivica Petrikova
June 08, 2018
At the global level, international actors have repeatedly expressed their desire to end hunger and food insecurity. However, food insecurity has persisted. More analysis is hence needed on the link between continuously high levels of global food insecurity and the ever increasing flow of ...
Southern Perspectives on the Post-2015 International Development Agenda
1st Edition
Edited
By Debapriya Bhattacharya, Andrea Ordóñez Llanos
June 08, 2018
At the turn of the millennium, the unanimous adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by the United Nations General Assembly marked a new chapter in international development. However, voices from the Global South were noticeably absent in shaping the agenda. Fifteen years later, the ...