Beschreibung:
How do we try to make the world a better place, when the challenges of poverty, disease, war, conflict, and climate change continue to impact millions of lives? Global Development: The Basics is a lively and engaging introduction to the shifting landscape of global development, right from its origins, to present-day problems, and on to what the future for global development might look like.
1: Global development - making a difference? 2: Development through the ages 3: Understanding and measuring development 4: Globalisation, economics and development 5: Why we think development only happens 'over there' 6: Contesting the development landscape 7: Is there a future for global development?