Bøker i Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies-serien

Developmentalism uses 250 years of case studies to show the deep contextualization of capitalist transformation, as well as the massive improvements in material life that is has generated.

Susceptibility in Development offers a novel approach to understanding power in development through theories of affect and emotion.

The Prosperity Paradox explains why farm worker problems often worsen as the agricultural sector shrinks and lays out options to help vulnerable workers.

Using data and insights from over ten years of field research in Cambodia this book explores how inequality persists in a hypermobile world.

The volume explains why Bangladesh's achievements owe as much to its domestic political settlement as to its role as the world's aid lab.

Many emerging and developing economies (EDEs) have liberalized their capital accounts, allowing greater freedom for international lenders and investors to enter their markets. This volume provides an empirical account of deeper integration of EDEs into the global financial system and discusses its implications for stability and growth.

The growth of cities, and informal economies within them, are two central manifestations of globalization in the developing world. This book contributes to our understanding of both, through a study of public transport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's largest city, from 1970 to 2015.

This book uses the South African case to argue for inclusive dualism as a development strategy in surplus labour countries. It shows that low- and high- productivity firms can co-exist and challenges the notion that a race to the bottom is inevitable.

This volumes draws on the history of the philanthropy of India's economic elites to examine how their ideas and understanding of development have shifted and changed over time. Kumar shows how development in India provided the moral justification for the protection of commercial interests during a turbulent period of Indian history.

They Eat Our Sweat examines the corruption complex in Africa in the context of transportion. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria, Agbiboa shows that corruption is driven by the imperatives of urban economic competition.