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.
Urbanisation in the Developing World
1st Edition
Edited
By David Drakakis-Smith
March 28, 2013
First published in 1986, this reissue is concerned with the increased social problems, regional imbalances, and economic dislocation resulting from the alarming growth rate of cities in the developing world. It considers theoretical questions and contains wide-ranging case studies to support the ...
Development and Underdevelopment: A Profile of the Third World
1st Edition
By John P. Cole
March 15, 2013
Initially published in 1987, this work deals with crucial aspects of development, including disparities in global patterns of production and consumption. John Cole examines the exhaustion of non-renewable resources and the destruction of the natural environment and, on the potentially positive side...
Seaports and Development: The Experience of Kenya and Tanzania
1st Edition
By B. S. Hoyle
March 15, 2013
This book, originally published in 1983, demonstrates the importance of seaports in the growth of less-developed countries. The author focuses on the character of port activity within the context of transport systems and regional economic planning. General principles of port development are ...
Social Policy in Developing Countries
1st Edition
By Arthur Livingstone
March 15, 2013
This reissue, first published in 1969, is a study of contemporary social policy in developing countries, which places the emphasis upon the human needs and requirements for social change which confront any people and any government, wherever their political and international affiliations lie, ...
Socialism and Underdevelopment
1st Edition
By Ken Post, Philip Wright
March 15, 2013
In this book, first published in 1989, Ken Post and Phil Wright provide a critical analysis of socialist construction in underdeveloped countries. Pointing out that all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century have occurred in underdeveloped peripheral capitalist countries, they focus on ...
The Development of Capitalism in Africa
1st Edition
By John Sender, Sheila Smith
March 15, 2013
First published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa’s past experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of recent historical research to argue that the impact of Capitalism has resulted in economic progress and significant improvements in living ...
The Geography of Underdevelopment: A Critical Survey
1st Edition
By Dean Forbes
March 15, 2013
First published in 1984, this title discusses the emergence of both the orthodox and political economy based approaches to underdevelopment in geography , critically assessing their strengths and weaknesses, and showing the relationship between intellectual developments and changing material ...
The Political Economy of Underdevelopment
1st Edition
By S. B. D. de Silva
March 15, 2013
First published in 1982, this reissue deals with the theory of underdevelopment, as Dr. de Silva attempts a synthesis between the internal and external aspects of underdevelopment and, in the Marxist tradition, focuses on the impact of the external on the internal as the dominant reality. Viewing ...
The Politics of Family Planning in the Third World
1st Edition
Edited
By T. E. Smith
March 15, 2013
First published in 1973, this book is an attempt to examine the political determinants (as opposed to the more usual emphasis upon consequences) of contemporary population policy formation and action in developing countries, with particular reference to policy relating to family limitation....
West African Trade: A Study of Competition, Oligopoly and Monopoly in a Changing Economy
1st Edition
By P. T. Bauer
March 15, 2013
This groundbreaking work from the hugely influential economist P. T. Bauer, first published in 1954 and reissued with a new introduction in 1963, is a thorough and detailed analysis of the findings of the Colonial Economic Research Committee, from their investigation into the structure of West...
Womens' Roles and Population Trends in the Third World
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Anker, Marya Buvinic, Nadia H. Youssef
March 15, 2013
First published in 1982, this collection was the result of an ambitious and wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary research programme conducted by the International Labour Office (ILO) on the relationship between women’s roles and demographic change, with a view to influencing contemporary government and...
Military Regimes and Development: A Comparative Analysis in African Societies
1st Edition
By Olatunde Odetola
March 07, 2013
First published in 1982, this book aims to examine the role that ruling military governments have played in African development. Dr Odetola discusses military organisational values and skills in modernisation and argues that the evocation and application of these values and skills depends on the ...