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  • The City in the Developing World

    The City in the Developing World is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to urbanisation in developing countries.The goal of this text is to place an understanding of the developing world city in its wider global context. First, this is done by developing the concept of social surplus product as a key to understanding the character of the contemporary Third World city. Second, throughout ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Development Geography

    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "An excellent and supremely accessible guide to some key issues in development geography"- Stuart Corbridge, London School of Economics"Provides a clearly stated, informed and strongly structured pathway through the key literatures and debates"- Jonathan Rigg, Durham UniversityOrganized around 24 short essays, Key Concepts in Development Geography is an introductory text that provides student... ... Read more

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  • Gender, Ethnicity and the Informal Sector in Trinidad

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002. Throughout much of the developing world and especially in Africa and Latin America, the informal employment sector is growing spectacularly. This study focuses on the gender and ethnic aspects of the informal economy in Trinidad. ... Read more

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  • The Companion to Development Studies

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  • Social Development

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  • The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization

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    In the last two decades public policies have reflected a drive for accelerated global economic integration ("globalization"), associated with greater economic liberalization. The outcomes have been largely disappointing, even in the estimate of their designers. Rural livelihoods have become more insecure, and the expected growth has rarely materialized. Insecurity is also etched into the growth of ... Read more

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  • Water on Tap

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    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation ... Read more

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  • Structural Adjustment

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    Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts examines the problems associated with Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and reveals the damaging impacts they can have. The book looks at how the debt crisis of the 1970's forced developing countries to seek external help and then reviews what constitutes as a standard adjustment programme, detailing the political, economic, social and ... Read more

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  • Making a Difference

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