Trade has played a critical role in global poverty reduction. In harnessing the potential of trade, some of the most successful countries have developed strong trade relationships with their neighbors. However, many South Asian countries have trade regimes that often offset the positive impact...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editor and Authors -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Why Is There Such a Large Gap between the Reality and the Potential? -- Can We Begin to Imagine the Possibilities? Have There Been Any...

Preliminary Material -- 1 International Education and Development: Histories, Parallels, Crossroads /Gilles Carbonnier , Michel Carton and Kenneth King -- 2 International Education Policies, Issues, and Challenges /Nicholas Burnett -- 3 International Investment in Education for Development:...

Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future -- Phill Wilcox, Jonathan Rigg and Minh Nguyen -- 2 Risk Perception and Lowland Rice Farming Change in Savannakhet Province, Southern Laos...

Large-scale land acquisitions: a historical perspective / Laurence Roudart and Marcel Mazoyer -- States as actors in international agro-investments / Martin Keulertz and Eckart Woertz -- The role of property rights in the debate on large-scale land acquisitions / Olivier De Schutter -- The...