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Handbook on development and social change / edited by G. Honor Fagan and Ronaldo Munck. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. - xxi, 462 p. ; 24 cm.

1. Development and Social Change: A Genealogy for an Era of Complexit;
2. Towards An Ecology of Development;
3. Development and Imperialism: Rethinking Old Concepts for a New Age;
4. Development and the private sector: the challenge of extractives-led development in Uganda;
5. Financialization and Development: Issues and Perspectives;
6. Development and Regionalism;
7. Small Loans, Big Problems: The Rise and Fall of Microcredit as Development Policy;
8. 'A rising tide lifts us all; don't rock the boat!': Economic growth and the legitimation of inequality;
9. Developing democracy, democratizing development: a backlash against hegemonic norms and practice?;
10. NGOs, civil society and social change;
11. The Developmental State Paradigm in the age of financialization;
12. Development and Social Change in Latin America;
13. Development in Africa as the global commodity super-cycle ends: African uprisings during and after 'Africa Rising’;
14. Tracing the Emergence of Sino-Capitalism: Social Change and Development in Contemporary China;
15. Culture and Development: Contemporary Debates and Practices;
16. The Migration-Development Nexus: Current Challenges and Future Research;
17. Requiem for the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach?;
18. Development and Inequality: A Critical Analysis;
19. 19. Water and a Fluid International Development Agenda;
20. Gender equality and the discursive landscape of non-governmental action in development: the inevitable failure of international NGOs to represent the interests of women?;
21. Development and Poverty in the twenty-first Century: A challenge for research and social transformation;
22. From the Ghost of Development to Buen Vivir (Living Well): Building Utopias.

ISBN: 9781786431547 (hbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social change
Economic development
Social change.

Dewey Class. No.: 339.8 FAG