Encyclopedia Of International Developement

Description:
The 'Encyclopedia of International Development' is a large-scale work that concentrates on presenting explanations of thematic concepts and debates associated with 'development', both as an academic field of study and as an activity engaged in by governments and aid agencies around the world, thus providing theoretical context and organizational background for the subject. Since the 1960s, most industrialized countries of Europe and North America have identified international development as a routine part of government policy. Today, the practice of international development is still growing and also becoming more complex as more and more countries engage in development, and international development addresses an ever-larger range of activities. Furthermore, many non-governmental and private sector agencies are now also emerging to undertake development work in addition to government bureau. This growth has been matched by an increase in academic research into the subject as a mounting number of universities offer degree courses in international development.

Table of Contents:
20/20 proposal; absolute vs relative poverty; accountability (political); adjustment with a human face (UNICEF 1987); advocacy coalitions; African Development Bank; ageing; Agenda 21; agrarian reform; Agrarian transformation; agribusiness; agricultural involution (Geertz); agriculture; agrochemicals; agroforestry; aid; aid evaluation and effectiveness; AIDS; alternative development; anti-development criticisms; apartheid; appropriate technology; arms sales and control; ASEAN; Asian crises; asylum-seeking and granting; authoritarianism; Bandung conference (1955); barefoot doctors; Basel Convention; basic needs approach; 'Big Push' concept (Rosenstein-Rodin and Nurkse); bilateral aid agencies; biodiversity; biomedicine; biopiracy; bioprospecting; biosafety protocol; biotechnology; boreholes; brain drain; Brandt Commission; Bretton Woods; Brown environmental agenda; Brundtland Commission; Bucharest conference (1974); bureaucracy; Butler's model of tourism development; Cairo conference (ICPD, 1994); capability vs utility; capacity-building; capital flight; capital intensive; capital markets; capitalism; CARE; carrying capacity; cartels; caste; casualisation of work; CEDAW (Convention for Eliminating all Forms of Discrimination Against Women); CGE models; charities; child labour; child prostitution; child soldiers; children and development; Chipko movement; cholera; Christianity and development; chronic poverty; circular migration; citizenship; civil society; Clash of Civilisations (Huntington); Clean Development Mechanism; climate change and development; Club of Rome; clustering; Cold War; collectivisation; colonialism and development; commercialization; Commission on Sustainable Development (UN); Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA); common pool resources; communes/collectives/cooperatives; community; community forestry; community-based natural resource management; comparative advantage; complex emergencies; conditionality; conflict management; conservation; contract farming; Convention on Biological Diversity; Copenhagen social summit (1995); corruption; cost-benefit analysis; crime and development; criticisms of development; cultural ecology; cultural heritage; cultural relativism; culture and development; culture of poverty; dams; debt; debt crisis (1980s); debt for nature swaps; debt trading; decent work discourse; decentralisation; decolonialisation; deep ecology; defaulting; deforestation; democracy; demographic transition; demographic trap; dependency theory; desertification; deskilling; development as a discourse; development as anti-politics; development management; developmental states; disease eradication; disease, social construction of; dollarisation; domestic law and development; domestic violence; drinking water; drought; drugs; dryland farming; drylands; early warning systems; EBRD; ECLAC; ecodevelopment (Strong); economic development; economic exclusion zones; economic federalisation; economic growth; economic poli