Books in the Routledge Library Editions: Development series

Explores the issues surrounding the industrialisation of the Third World at the beginning of the 1980s. This book examines the expectation that Newly Industrialising Countries would facilitate industrial growth via an outward-orientated strategy had begun to be the combination of growing recession and growing protectionism.

A study that focuses upon two of the major economic problems faced by developing countries: massive foreign debts and the shortage of foreign funds offered on concessional terms for development purposes.

Represents the contributions to an international conference held at the University of Bristol in April 1983. In assessing the complex relationship between education and development, this book covers a range of countries in its appraisal and presents pictures both of optimism and pessimism.

Circulation is common in Third World countries and involves reciprocal flows of people, goods and ideas. This book includes essays that discuss concepts associated with circulation in its various forms, and presents empirical evidence based on field work from holistic, ecological, social, and economic points of view.

Deals with the problem of international tensions arising from demographic and fertility differences, with special reference to such thickly populated Asian countries as China, Japan and India.

Deals with the crucial issue of population explosion, one of the most crucial problems facing the contemporary developing world. This book also deals with the Indian experience.

First published in 1975, the main emphasis of this reissued collection is on the various aspects of dependence to which small countries as such are subject, and the policy options in the political and economic field which are open to them.

The studies of poverty, progress and development in this volume, first published in 1991, by a distinguished international roster of authors and researchers, aim to increase knowledge of the social mechanisms of pauperization, marginalization, and the exclusion of certain categories of society; to bring to light the potential and creative role of socio-cultural, intellectual, ethical, moral and spiritual values in progress and the development process; and to examine the links and contradictions between development and progress in order to propose ways of reducing social inequalities.

Investigates the relationship between America and the Third World, centring on three main themes: the nature of American involvement in the Third World; the challenge posed by the rival Super-Power; and, the changes both in US-Soviet relations (from containment to detente) and in the Third World.

Suitable for students, businessmen, government officials and economic advisers, this title presents an introduction to politics in tropical Africa. It emphasizes how politicians are constrained by the past, the physical environment and the world's economy, yet retain freedom of choice on a range of issues.

Contains articles on a range of topics including: working class organisation, populism and US labour imperialism. This book is suitable for anthropologists, students of political science and specialists in Latin American studies.

Based upon a series of lectures given at the Institut d'Etude de Development Economique et Social, this title focuses on the problems faced by the multitude of African and Asian states which achieved independence between 1945 and 1957.

Explores how the relationship between Africa and Europe has changed over the years. This book assesses the state of relations and discusses how the relationship may develop in the future.

First published in 1980, this volume brings together seven case studies of regional conflicts in the Third World and great, particularly super, power involvement in those conflicts. While a number of factors relating to the origins and course of such conflicts and great power motivations are bound to be unique to each conflict, the book illustrates that there are certain common denominators, both in terms of regional conflicts per se and great power involvements in them. The book contains considerable material for further argument and deals with many of the most important and complicated aspects of contemporary international relations.

Argues that there is a radical difference between the use of the term 'Regional Security' when applied to the Third World rather than the developed world. This book explores the concept of regional security and shows how items which make for regional security in the developed world are absent in the Third World.

A title that is concerned with the rapid contemporary metropolitan development in the Third World, at a time when manufacturing and public service sectors were expending at a terrific rate. It examines the nature of Western class terminology derived largely from Marx and Weber, and assesses its utility in the analysis of Third World Urban society.

A collection of twelve case studies that examines the emergence of a free wage-labour force in all regions of the third world.

Conceived as a response to the economic naivety and implicit metropolitan bias of many 1950s and 60s studies of 'the sociology of development', this volume provides actual field studies and theoretical reviews to indicate the directions which a conceptually more adequate study of developing societies should take.