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Poverty & Development in the 21st Century provides a fully updated, interdisciplinary overview of one of the world's most complex and pressing social problems. The book analyses and assesses key questions faced by practitioners and policy makers, ranging from what potential solutions to world poverty are open to us to what form development should take and whether it is compatible with environmental sustainability.
The third edition considers the complex causes of global poverty and inequality, introducing major development issues that include hunger, disease, the threat of authoritarian populism, the refugee crisis and environmental degradation.
Three new chapters illustrate the impact of climate, refugee and health crises on development by drawing on accounts of lived experience to explore the real-world implications of theory.
Refreshed student-centred learning features include boxes outlining key concepts, definitions and cases that explore contested issues in greater depth. These case studies encourage critical reflection on key issues, from refugees' personal accounts of containment to the Ebola epidemic to indigenous perspectives on climate change. Questions posed at the start of each chapter provide a framework for critical reflection on key assumptions and theories within the field of development. Each chapter also clearly unpacks figures and tables, supporting students to develop a nuanced understanding of economic arguments and key skills of data interpretation
Digital formats and resources
The third edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.
- The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
- Students and lecturers are further supported by online resources to encourage deeper engagement with content.
For students:
Web links organised by chapter to deepen students' understanding of key topics and explore their research interests
For lecturers:
Customisable PowerPoint slides support effective teaching preparation
Figures and tables from the book allow clear presentation of key data and support students' data analysis
Contents
Part One: Conceptions of Poverty and Development
1: Alan Thomas and Tim Allen: Why Poverty and Development?
2: Naila Kabeer and Alan Thomas: Poverty and Inequality
3: Alan Thomas: Meanings and Views of Development
4: Duncan Green and Tom Kirk: Agencies of Development
Part Two: Aspects and Causes of Poverty
5: Tim Allen, Shun-Nan Chiang, and Ben Crow: Hunger and Famine
6: Melissa Parker and Cristin Fergus: Diseases of Poverty
7: Peggy Froerer: Poverty and Education
8: David Wield: Unemployment and Making a Living
9: Valeria Cetorelli and Alan Thomas: Population, Poverty and Development
10: Kathryn Hochstetler: Environmental Degradation and Sustainability
11: Tim Allen and Tom Kirk: War and Armed Conflict
Part Three: Transformation and Development
12: Janet Bujra: Diversity in Pre-Capitalist Societies
13: Henry Bernstein: Colonialism, Capitalism, Development
14: David Potter and Alan Thomas: The Power of Colonial States
15: Tom Hewitt: The Era of Development - A short history
16: Guoer Liu and Andrew Kilmister: Socialist Models of Development and the Rise of China
Part Four: Challenges for Development
17: David Potter, Alan Thomas, and María del Pilar López-Uribe: Democratization, Governance, and Development
18: Charlotte Brown and Ruth Pearson: Rethinking Gender Matters in Development
19: Peter Robbins, David Wield, and Gordon Wilson: Engineering for Development
20: Cristin Fergus, Tim Allen, and Melissa Parker: New Directions and Challenges for Health and Development
21: Helen Hintjens, Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits, and Ali Bilgic: Migration, Security, and Development
Part Five: Prospects for Development
22: Tony Roberts, Kevin Hernandez, and Becky Faith: Digital Technologies
23: Jo Beall: City Life
24: Tom Kirk, Tim Allen, and John Eade: Identity Politics and Clashing Cultures
25: Dina Abbott, Gordon Wilson, and Alan Thomas: Climate Change and the End of Development
26: John Harriss: Returning to the 'Great Transformation'
27: Ikenna Acholonu, Charlotte Brown, and Ingrina Shieh: Poverty and Development: Prospects for the future
Conclusion
