From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies

ISBN 10: 0745334733 / ISBN 13: 9780745334738

Published by Pluto Press, 2015

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From the Local to the Global: Key Issues in Development Studies
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745334733
• ISBN 13: 9780745334738
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In recent years, the international development sector has found itself confronting new and persistent challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights. From The Local to the Global highlights the extent to which the local and global are interconnected in today’s world economy and questions the legitimacy of the neo-liberal model of development that they argue has propelled us into the crisis.
            This completely revised third edition takes stock of the international development environment as it embarks on new policy frameworks to confront new challenges, ensuring that From the Local to the Global will continue to serve as an indispensable introduction to key development issues such as aid, debt, trade, migration, security, gender, and climate change.

About the Authors

Gerard McCann is a senior lecturer in international studies at St Mary’s University College, Queen’s University, Belfast and director of the Global Dimension in Education project.

Stephen McCloskey is the director of the Centre for Global Education, Belfast, and editor of the journal Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review. His publications include Development Education in Policy and Practice and The East Timor Question: The Struggle for Independence from Indonesia.