Gerard McCann & Stephen McCloskey 
From the Local to the Global [PDF ebook] 
Key Issues in Development Studies

The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights. Climate change has loomed large as a crisis for development practitioners and environmentalists, affecting the most vulnerable in the Global South. The ongoing financial crisis has created recurrent recessions in the global North, while causing budget lines to be reduced for development aid.



This textbook highlights the extent to which the local and global are interconnected in today’s globalised economy. It questions the legitimacy of the neoliberal model of development which propelled us into the crisis.



Including chapters on Latin America, China and sub-Saharan Africa, and topics such as debt injustice, gender and migration, this completely revised third edition takes stock of the international development environment as it embarks on new policy frameworks to confront new challenges.

Tabella dei contenuti

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development – Stephen Mc Closkey

Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions

1. Measuring Human Development – Andy Storey

2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development – Máire Braniff and Paul Hainsworth

Part II: The Economics of Development

3. Overseas Development Aid: Is It Working? – Patrick Marren

4. Trade, Development and Inequality – Denis O’Hearn

5. Debt Injustice in the Global North and South – Nessa Ni Chasaide

Part III: Development Policy

6. Climate Change: Reorienting the Development Agenda – David Selby

7. Europe, Development and the Colonial Legacy – Gerard Mc Cann

8. Post-2015 Development Assessment: Proposed Goals and Indicators – Walden Bello

9. Women Contributing to Gender-Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development – Patricia Muñoz-Cabrera

10. The Complexity of Migration – Michal Cenker

Part IV: Regional Development

11. Rethinking Latin America: Back to the Future? – Ronaldo Munck

12. The Arab Spring: Trading Development for Stability – Heba M. Khalil

13. China: The New Face of Development – Russell Duncan

14. Meaningful Development Goals and Sub-Saharan Africa – Chrispin R. Matenga

Part V: Human Development

15. Children, Childhood and Work: Perceptions and Practices – Madeleine Leonard

16. Development Education as an Agent of Social Change – Stephen Mc Closkey

Conclusion: Neoliberal Decline and International Development Post-2015 – Gerard Mc Cann

Notes on Contributors

Index

Circa l’autore

Stephen Mc Closkey 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).