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.
The Economies of Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Robson, D Lury
April 11, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1969 brings together structural and analytical studies of seven single African countries, together with two studies of groups of countries which, although politically separate, have in the past had close economic links. These countries are Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, ...
The Geography of the Third World: Progress and Prospect
1st Edition
By Michael Pacione
April 11, 2013
First published in 1988, this reissue presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary developments and research into the geography of the Third World, at a time when economies and societies there were changing at a much more rapid rate than their counterparts in the developing world. It covers ...
The Green Revolution Revisited: Critique and Alternatives
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernhard Glaeser
April 11, 2013
The Green Revolution – the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s – came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture ...
The Origins of Economic Inequality Between Nations: A Critique of Western Theories on Development and Underdevelopment
1st Edition
By Carlos Ramirez-Faria
April 11, 2013
First published in 1991 this text provides an incisive analysis of theories concerning the origins of economic inequality between nations. Central to the author’s investigation is the concept of underdevelopment, and a focus on successive Western ‘systems of conceptualisation’ of the relationship ...
The Theory and Experience of Economic Development: Essays in Honour of Sir Arthur Lewis
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Gersovitz, Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, Gustav Ranis, Mark R. Rosenzweig
April 11, 2013
This volume, first published in 1982, is a collection of original essays written to honour Professor W. Arthur Lewis, 1979 co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. The authors, an international group of distinguished scholars, address a varied set of specific issues reflecting Professor Lewis’ ...
Theories of Economic Development and Growth
1st Edition
By Y. S. Brenner
April 11, 2013
First published in 1966, this work summarises the theories of economic growth, both ancient and modern, and presents them in a form particularly suitable for university students, both in the developing world and elsewhere. The objective is to enable students to assess the major factors making for ...
Urbanisation and Planning in the Third World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation
1st Edition
By Robert Potter
April 11, 2013
First published in 1985, this book reconsiders the whole question of urbanisation and planning in the Third World. It argues that public involvement, which is now an accepted part of Western planning, should be used more in Third World cities. It shows that many inhabitants of Third World cities ...
Urbanisation, Housing and the Development Process
1st Edition
By David Drakakis-Smith
April 11, 2013
Initially published in 1981, this book examines the problems of housing provision for the urban poor in developing countries, within the context of the development process as a whole. The investigation concentrates on the political economy of housing investment and illustrates how programmes and ...
Aid and Dependence: British Aid to Malawi
1st Edition
By Kathryn Morton
March 28, 2013
First published in 1975, in conjunction with the Overseas Development Institute, this study examines the case for and against aid for developing nations, taking the specific example of British aid to Malawi’s economic development since independence in 1964. Kathryn Morton suggests that ...
Beyond the Sociology of Development: Economy and Society in Latin America and Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Ivar Oxaal, Tony Barnett, David Booth
March 28, 2013
Conceived as a response to the economic naïvety and implicit metropolitan bias of many 1950s and 60s studies of ‘the sociology of development’ , this volume, first published in 1975, provides actual field studies and theoretical reviews to indicate the directions which a conceptually more adequate ...
Capital Formation and Economic Development: Studies in the Economic Development of India
1st Edition
Edited
By P. N. Rosenstein-Rodan
March 28, 2013
First published in 1964, this series of studies, compiled by the India team of Centre of International Studies at MIT, represents an important contribution to methods in planning for development, which will be of relevance to all those working in the field, irrespective of country. The results are ...
Latin American Theories of Development and Underdevelopment
1st Edition
By Cristóbal Kay
March 28, 2013
Upon its publication in 1989, this was the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the Latin American School of Development and an invaluable guide to the major Third World contribution to development theory. The four major strands in the work of Latin American Theorists are: structuralism, ...