Understanding Development

Download or read book Understanding Development written by Paul Hopper and published by Polity. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on a wide range of case studies from across the globe, this book explores such areas as: health and population growth, conflict and security, global inequality and poverty, fair trade and trade liberalization, gender and education, foreign aid and debt, and sustainability and the environment. This issues-driven text focuses on the debates that have generated the most interest and passion among practitioners and non-practitioners alike. Always attentive to the contested and plural nature of the field, it makes the case for a genuinely interdisciplinary approach which takes full account of the impact of globalization."--Publisher