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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 12|19 pages
Landmines and Sustainability
Remaking the world through global citizenship, activism, research and collaborative mine action