Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, Issues, and Practice - Softcover

Haslam, Paul; Shafer, Jessica; Beaudet, Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199018901 ISBN 13: 9780199018901

Publisher: OUP Canada, 2017

Synopsis

Introduction to International Development integrates the work of leading experts from disciplines as varied as geography, history, sociology, political science, economics, gender studies, and anthropology. Contributed chapters present foundational overviews as well as in-depth coverage of issues at the heart of today's most pressing international debates. In addition to a new part focussed exclusively on the practice of international development with six new chapters on measuring poverty, planning projects, development ethics, humanitarian assistance, and global poverty reduction, this edition has new chapters on alternatives to development, gender and development, China and the emerging economies, and climate change.

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About the Author

Paul Haslam is associate professor in the International Development and Globalization program at the University of Ottawa. Jessica Schafer was assistant professor at the International Development and Globalization program at the University of Ottawa from 2006-2008. She is currently assistant manager of performance audit at the Office of the Auditor General of British Columbia. Pierre Beaudet is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Canada
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0199018901
• ISBN 13: 9780199018901
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 592