Routledge Library Editions: Development
About the Book Series
Routledge Library Editions: Development will re-issue works which address economic, political and social aspects of development. Published over more than four decades these books trace the emergence of development as one of the most important contemporary issues and one of the key areas of study for modern social science.
Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective: Populism, Nationalism and Industrialisation
1st Edition
By Gavin Kitching
September 11, 2014
How do the intellectual origins and historical background of western and other theories of development affect their relevance to contemporary Third-World conditions? This is the central question behind Gavin Kitching’s examination of ‘development studies’, first published in 1982, from its origins ...
Development and the Debt Trap: Economic Planning and External Borrowing in Ghana
1st Edition
By Andrzej Krassowski
September 11, 2014
Ghana is one of the earliest and most serious examples of the build up of foreign debt by a developing country to support its policies for economic growth. This study, first published in 1974 in conjunction with the Overseas Development Institute, analyses Ghana’s economy over twenty years and ...
Distance Teaching for the Third World: The Lion and the Clockwork Mouse
1st Edition
By Michael Young, Hilary Perraton, Janet Jenkins, Tony Dodds
September 11, 2014
This reissue, first published in 1980, is based on the experiences of the International Extension College in developing distance teaching. The volume begins by reviewing the world problems of educational quality and quantity, and then examines the ways in which print, broadcasts and group study ...
Education in the Third World
1st Edition
By Keith Watson
January 30, 2014
This reissue examines the crucial question of how the education systems of Third World countries continue to be influenced by the former colonial powers, arguing that decisions and views made early in the twentieth century cannot always be so readily condemned from the standpoint of the 1980s. The ...
A Theory of Economic Integration for Developing Countries: Illustrated by Caribbean Countries
1st Edition
By Fuat Andic, Suphan Andic, Douglas Dosser
November 27, 2013
First published in 1971, this is a study of the application of the economic theory of integration in developing countries attempts to assess the development of common markets and free trade areas in the contemporary developing world. The book synthesises various revisions of the old theory of the ...
A Third World Proletariat?
1st Edition
By Peter C. Lloyd
November 27, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1982, is concerned with the rapid contemporary metropolitan development in the Third World, at a time when manufacturing and public service sectors were expending at a terrific rate. Nevertheless, the phenomenal growth of the metropolitan cities brings with it an ...
African Environments and Resources
1st Edition
By L. A. Lewis, L. Berry
November 27, 2013
First published in 1988, this work provides a comprehensive picture of the range of physical environments in Africa, focusing upon those characteristics and issues central to the management of environmental resources. Beginning with an overview of the geographical and environmental history of ...
Ideology and Social Change in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By June Nash, Juan Corradi, Hobart Spalding
November 27, 2013
First published in 1977, this reissue contains original articles by contemporary leading scholars in the field of Latin American politics on a range of topics including: working class organisation, populism and US labour imperialism. It will be of interest to anthropologists, students of political ...
Learning From China?: Development and Environment in Third World Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernhard Glaeser
April 11, 2013
First published in 1987, this volume was written to shed some light upon the nature and environmental consequences and wider relevance of development strategies in the Peoples’ Republic of China. It covers industrialisation, food production, energy use and landscape and settlement planning. The ...
The African Debt Crisis
1st Edition
By Trevor W. Parfitt, Stephen P. Riley
April 11, 2013
Assessing both the macro- and micro-economic levels of the contemporary African Debt Crisis, this book, first published in 1989, begins by looking at the origins of the world debt crisis, and then looks closely at the problem as it affects Sub-Saharan Africa. The effects of debt on Africa’s ...
The Economic and Social Structure of Mauritius
1st Edition
By James Meade
April 11, 2013
First published in 1961, this reissue examines the contemporary economic problems of Mauritius alongside those social problems which have a bearing on economic development. As a small and isolated economy, marked by a very rapid rate of contemporary population growth, by an extreme concentration on...
The Economics of Aid
1st Edition
By J. M. Healey
April 11, 2013
First published in 1971, this reissue considers the main aspects of foreign aid to developing countries in terms of economic concepts and principles. The author gives an economic definition of aid and considers the motives for giving aid and the principles on which it may be allocated. He looks at ...