The last major review of urban health in developing countries was published in 1992. At that time, knowledge was … largely limited to crude rural-urban comparisons and some ad hoc studies of low-income urban communities. Most research was … done on communicable (infectious) diseases and little was known about the relationship between urban life in developing …

World Bank-IMF, the national government and organized civil society. Fundamental to the conceptualization and design of PRSP … is defined and discussed by the key actors and examines civil society’s response to government proposals and the … strategies they have adopted to promote an ‘alternative’ people-centred development perspective. …

Racism touches many of the relationships created by the international development industry, but has been largely … encounters between staff working in development in international agencies, networks, governments and national organizations in …

tourism as the centrepiece of their development strategy. This occurs in the context of narrowing developmental options … development strategy. …

New ways are needed of framing the international politics of development in the context of global restructuring. The … linked to attendant economic liberal and sociological strands of political economy analysis. But both approaches underplay … politics. However, the new global politics of development can be satisfactorily framed, provided that we adopt an approach that …

This paper is concerned with the observation that rights-based approaches to development have tended to ignore the ways … of a research agenda within development studies on ‘religion and development’ has meant that a significant indigenous …

Government policy in post-1994 South Africa, whilst upholding the principles of community participation and development … growth agenda, that of Spatial Development Initiatives, has catalysed both ‘bottom-up’ development and also meaningfully … Saldanha Steel Plant and the Paternoster Fish Market, which have been components of a Spatial Development Initiative in the …

Local and regional development has characteristically focused upon localities and regions in the historically … industrialized and urbanized countries of the Global North. Development Studies has been concerned with more recently industrializing … disconnection constrains explanation and policy formulation in addressing global development challenges. This article argues for …

Post-war reconstruction and development are no longer viewed as separate conceptual or practical domains. This evolving … concept is underpinned by a series of assumptions that assert the necessary links between democratization, economic reform and …

Many key dilemmas in contemporary development studies centre on disjunctures between theoretical innovation, formal … dialectics of spatial scale; environmental, economic and socio-cultural trade-offs and costs associated with change; and the …