From the Local to the Global

Key Issues in Development Studies

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights. Climate change has loomed large as a crisis for development practitioners and environmentalists, affecting the most vulnerable in the Global South. The ongoing financial crisis has created recurrent recessions in the global North, while causing budget lines to be reduced for development aid.This textbook highlights the extent to which the local and global are interconnected in today's globalised economy. It questions the legitimacy of the neoliberal model of development which propelled us into the crisis. Including chapters on Latin America, China and sub-Saharan Africa, and topics such as debt injustice, gender and migration, this completely revised third edition takes stock of the international development environment as it embarks on new policy frameworks to confront new challenges.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 20 mm
Vikt:436 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:368
Upplaga:3
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745334738

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Gerard McCann is a Senior Lecturer in International Studies at St Mary's University College (Queen's University, Belfast). He is Director of the Global Dimension in Education project and co-ordinates partnership initiatives with universities in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. He has written extensively on the European Union's development and education policies. He is the author of Ireland's Economic History (Pluto, 2011) and editor of From the Local to the Global (Pluto, 2015).Stephen McCloskey is the Director of the Centre for Global Education, Belfast and editor of the journal Policy and Practice. His publications include The East Timor Question (University of Michigan, 2000) and From the Local to the Global (Pluto, 2015).

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'An ideal lift off point for anyone interested in the issues that underpin poverty and injustice at local and global levels. It combines accessible, informative writing on the most essential international development issues'

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AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development - Stephen McCloskey Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions1. Measuring Human Development - Andy Storey 2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development - Máire Braniff and Paul Hainsworth Part II: The Economics of Development3. Overseas Development Aid: Is It Working? - Patrick Marren4. Trade, Development and Inequality - Denis O’Hearn5. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South - Nessa Ni ChasaidePart III: Development Policy6. Climate Change: Reorienting the Development Agenda - David Selby7. Europe, Development and the Colonial Legacy - Gerard McCann 8. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators - Walden Bello9. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development - Patricia Muñoz-Cabrera10. The Complexity of Migration - Michal CenkerPart IV: Regional Development11. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? - Ronaldo Munck12. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability - Heba M. Khalil13. China: The New Face of Development - Russell Duncan14. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa - Chrispin R. MatengaPart V: Human Development15. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices - Madeleine Leonard 16. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change - Stephen McCloskeyConclusion: Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015 - Gerard McCann Notes on ContributorsIndex