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From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies
Gerard McCann (Ed.)
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Description for From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies
Paperback. A completely revised 3rd edition of this classic development studies textbook Editor(s): McCann, Gerard; McCloskey, Stephen. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.
The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights. Climate change has loomed large as a crisis for development practitioners and environmentalists, affecting the most vulnerable in the Global South. The ongoing financial crisis has created recurrent recessions in the global North, while causing budget lines to be reduced for development aid. This textbook highlights the extent to which the local and global are interconnected in today's globalised economy. It questions the legitimacy of the neoliberal model of development which propelled us into the crisis. ... Read more
The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights. Climate change has loomed large as a crisis for development practitioners and environmentalists, affecting the most vulnerable in the Global South. The ongoing financial crisis has created recurrent recessions in the global North, while causing budget lines to be reduced for development aid. This textbook highlights the extent to which the local and global are interconnected in today's globalised economy. It questions the legitimacy of the neoliberal model of development which propelled us into the crisis. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
438g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745334738
SKU
V9780745334738
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99-1
About Gerard McCann (Ed.)
Gerard McCann is a Senior Lecturer in International Studies at St Mary's University College (Queen's University, Belfast). He is Director of the Global Dimension in Education project and co-ordinates partnership initiatives with universities in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. He has written extensively on the European Union's development and education policies. He is the author of Ireland's Economic History ... Read more
Reviews for From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies
'Of global value to a radically changing world. It is essentially a survey of all the issues that affect the global South and shape the global North'
Hector Maldonado Felix, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, and founder of the NGO Asociacion Gestion Salud y Poblacion. 'An ideal lift off point for anyone interested ... Read more
Hector Maldonado Felix, Faculty of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru, and founder of the NGO Asociacion Gestion Salud y Poblacion. 'An ideal lift off point for anyone interested ... Read more