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Informationen zum Autor Gerard McCann is a Senior Lecturer in International Studies at St Mary's University College (Queen's University, Belfast). He is Director of the Global Dimension in Education project and co-ordinates partnership initiatives with universities in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. He has written extensively on the European Union's development and education policies. He is the author of Ireland's Economic History (Pluto, 2011) and editor of From the Local to the Global (Pluto, 2015). Stephen McCloskey is the Director of the Centre for Global Education, Belfast and editor of the journal Policy and Practice. His publications include The East Timor Question (University of Michigan, 2000) and From the Local to the Global (Pluto, 2015). Klappentext A completely revised third edition of a classic development studies textbook Zusammenfassung A completely revised third edition of a classic development studies textbook Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations PART 1 DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE AND DEFINITIONS 1. Introduction - Creating New Paradigms for Development - Stephen McCloskey 2. Measuring Human Development - Andy Storey 3. A Human Rights-Based Approach to Development - Paul Hainsworth and Maire Braniff PART II THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT 4. Overseas Development Aid: Is it Working? - Patrick Marren 5. Trade, Development and Inequality - Denis O'Hearn 6. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South - Nessa Ni Chasaide PART III DEVELOPMENT POLICY 7. Climate Change and Development - David Selby 8. Europe. Development and the Colonial Legacy - Gerard McCann 9. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators - Walden Bello 10. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development - Patricia Munoz-Cabrera 11. The Complexity of Migration - Michal Cenker PART IV REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 12. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? - Ronaldo Munck 13. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability - Heba Khalil 14. China: The New Face of Development - Russell Duncan 15. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa - Chrispin R. Matenga PART V HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 16. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices - Madeleine Leonard 17. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change - Stephen McCloskey 18. Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015 - Gerard McCann Notes on Contributors Index ...
