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.
Rich World, Poor World
1st Edition
By Geoffrey Lean
March 28, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1978, confronts a whole range of international development issues: hunger, energy, supply, population growth, pollution, the state of the cities, nuclear proliferation. Geoffrey Lean explains the interdependent contemporary crises within developing nations and ...
The Politics of United States Foreign Aid
1st Edition
By George M. Guess
March 28, 2013
First published in 1987, this reissue explores contemporary United States foreign aid policies and thinking in the Reagan era. The author argues that aid policy is often confused as a result of bureaucratic decision-making processes. The book contrasts the experience of the many countries where ...
The Sociology and Politics of Development: A Theoretical Study
1st Edition
By Baidya Nath Varma
March 28, 2013
Originally published in 1980, this work answers the crucial question of how social change should be guided in the developing countries. Professor Varma begins by posing the problems of the general scope of modernization and the general criteria used in the modernization process. He examines ...
The Third World in Soviet Military Thought
1st Edition
By Mark Katz
March 28, 2013
First published in 1982, this study traces the development of Soviet military thinking on the Third World and assesses its importance for the conduct of Soviet foreign policy. Changes in Soviet military thought often reflect changes in Soviet attitudes towards and expectations from involvement in ...
The Wealth of Poor Nations
1st Edition
By C Suriyakumaran
March 28, 2013
Initially published in 1984, this book considers the contemporary condition of the Third World economy, investigating the structural factors and historical forces, mostly operating in the capitalist world, which underlie the experience of the Third World in the post-war era. The book provides a ...
Theories of Development
1st Edition
By Peter Preston
March 28, 2013
Dr Preston’s book, first published in 1982, presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the recent, neo-Marxist, debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis. He identifies a series of ‘schools’ and ...
Third World Industrialization in the 1980s: Open Economies in a Closing World
1st Edition
Edited
By Raphie Kaplinsky
March 28, 2013
First published in 1984, this work explores the issues surrounding the industrialisation of the Third World at the beginning of the 1980s. The expectation that Newly Industrialising Countries would facilitate industrial growth via an outward-orientated strategy had begun to be the combination of ...
Towards Economic Recovery in Sub-Saharan Africa: Essays in Honour of Robert Gardiner
1st Edition
Edited
By James Pickett, Hans Singer
March 28, 2013
First published in 1990, this volume considers the question: is there any hope for economic recovery in Africa? Written by a team of leading development economists, the book takes a close look at the economic decline of Sub-Saharan Africa and provides a set of guidelines for promoting economic ...
Trade and Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Kathryn Morton, Peter Tulloch
March 28, 2013
This reissue, initially published in 1977, is an introduction to contemporary trading positions and problems of developing countries. The authors examine the main export options of Third World countries and consider the roles of the key international organisations – GATT, UNCTAD, etc – and those of...
Underdevelopment and Development in Brazil: Volume I: Economic Structure and Change, 1822-1947
1st Edition
By Nathaniel H Leff
March 28, 2013
First published in 1982, this work offers an analysis Brazil’s long-term economic history and development, spanning the period from independence to post-war industrial growth. The book focuses upon the classic problem of why Brazil failed to develop economically during the nineteenth century in a ...
Underdevelopment and Development in Brazil: Volume II: Reassessing the Obstacles to Economic Development
1st Edition
By Nathaniel H Leff
March 28, 2013
First published in 1982, this work builds on the detailed economic history of Brazil in its companion volume: "Economic Structure and Change, 1822-1947", assessing and challenging the established interpretations. The book covers in depth the causes of the Northeast’s poor economic experience and ...
Urban Social Movements in the Third World
1st Edition
Edited
By Frans Schuurman, Ton Van Naerssen
March 28, 2013
This reissue, initially published in 1989, considers the upsurge of locally-based movements attempting to improve living conditions in Third-World cities throughout the 1980s. The book presents qualitative, comparative research on the dynamics and constraints of these urban social movements, in a ...