Why, while Europe, North America, and Australia have developed, have Africa, much of Asia, and Latin America remained underdeveloped? Andre Gunder Frank sets out to answer this basic question by showing how world capital accumulation has led to the differentiation of these regions within the single world-embracing economic system. Unequal exchange ......
International Organizations and the Future of Welfare
Studying the globalization of social policy, this text demonstrates that national social policy is increasingly determined by global economic competition and by the social policy of international organizations. The authors argue that the substance of social policy now has to be understood in terms of global social redistribution, global social regulation and global social provision and empowerment. The book examines trends global inequity and summarizes the diverse experiences of different types of regimes across the world. The social policies of international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, UN agencies and the European Union are also reviewed.
Multinational Managers and Developing Country Concerns
This volume examines a key social issue currently facing the world: the misallocation of resources and opportunities among its population. It covers not only the development gap between industrialised and developing countries, but also the widening gap within the developing countries themselves.
Conventional wisdom has it that government management of the economy is the means to transform a backward economy into a dynamic, modern one. This book showcases a range of development experiences in order to ascertain the reasons for this quagmire.
Conventional wisdom has it that government management of the economy is the means to transform a backward economy into a dynamic, modern one. This book showcases a range of development experiences in order to ascertain the reasons for this quagmire.
The field of development studies is expanding and should continue to grow as momentum toward global interdependence builds. This book presents a guide for staff interested in teaching a wide variety of areas associated with global issues and Third World development. Focusing on pedagogical techniques and strategies for curriculum development and ......
The field of development studies is expanding and should continue to grow as momentum toward global interdependence builds. This book presents a guide for staff interested in teaching a wide variety of areas associated with global issues and Third World development. Focusing on pedagogical techniques and strategies for curriculum development and ......
There is widespread consensus that progress towards sustainable development is desirable. However, a particularly contentious part of the debate concerns the role of cities as consumers of energy and producers of pollution. This text examines the arguments surrounding this question.
Poverty is spreading. There are now as many people living in absolute poverty - almost a billion in the rural Third World alone - as lived on the entire planet only a century ago. Yet poverty continues to be shrouded in mystery. Consider that: Four-fifths of the world's poor live in rural areas; About 340 million people worldwide are currently ......
