"This book provides an overview of what aid is, how it has changed over time, and how it is practiced, as well as debates about whether aid works, for whom, and what its future might be. It is an important resource for students, development workers and policy makers seeking an understanding of...

Introduction: What are non-governmental organizations? -- Understanding NGOs in historical context -- NGOs and development theory -- NGOs and development : from alternative to mainstream? -- NGO roles in contemporary development practice -- NGOs and civil society -- NGOs and globalization --...

Meanings of development -- Modernization, Keynesianism and neoliberalism -- Structuralism, neo-Marxism and socialism -- Politics and development -- Grassroots development -- Social and cultural dimensions of development -- Environment and development -- Conclusions.

"The text provides advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, students with an introduction to the key theoretical perspectives in both media theory and development studies. It also brings these two bodies of theory into dialogue with each other, by examining the ways in which both media and...

Education and development a brief history -- Education as an economic investment -- The right to education -- Education and human development -- Education, gender and development -- Education and/as violence -- Education and sustainable development a new development agenda

This fourth edition has been comprehensively rewritten and updated to provide a concise, well illustrated and accessible introduction to the characteristics, challenges and opportunities of sustainable development with particular reference to developing countries. The contested nature of...