ABSTRACT

Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North, is a provocative, engaging and interesting collection of real-world case studies in development and globalization focusing on under-emphasized threats to growth and human welfare worldwide. Created by two of America's top development sociologists, it targets undergraduates, graduates, academics and development professionals. Crises such as falling state capacity, declining technological innovation, increasing class inequality and persisting gender inequality are considered, along with their economic and social consequences.

chapter 1|32 pages

Introduction

Crisis in development – how development lives and dies

chapter 2|18 pages

The Crisis of International Development and The Case of Haiti

The making of an outer-periphery

chapter 3|15 pages

Why Cutting Taxes Does not Increase Employment

Or why shrinking the state does not provide compensating economic development

chapter 4|18 pages

The State and Economic Development in East and Southeast Asia

The advantage of an ancient civilization

chapter 6|15 pages

(PRO)Creating a Crisis?

Gender discrimination, sex ratios and their implications for the developing world

chapter 7|19 pages

Gender, Development and the Environment

Female empowerment and the creation of sustainable societies

chapter 9|18 pages

Zimbabwe

A case study in bipolar development

chapter 10|18 pages

Advancing While Losing

Indigenous land claims and development in Argentina

chapter 12|19 pages

Landmines and Sustainability

Remaking the world through global citizenship, activism, research and collaborative mine action