Elgar Companion to Development Studies

"The Elgar Companion to Development Studies" is an innovative and utterly unique reference book that includes original contributions covering development economics as well as development studies broadly defined. This major new Companion brings together an international panel of experts from varying backgrounds who discuss theoretical, ethical and practical issues relating to economic, social, cultural, institutional, political and human aspects of development in poor countries. It also includes a selection of intellectual biographies of leading development thinkers. The Companion draws on different social science disciplines and incorporates a combination of theoretical and applied work that embraces different methodologies and represents different views of the world. It will therefore appeal not only to students, scholars and researchers in development studies but also to those interested in development economics as well as the politics, sociology and ethics of development. It will also appeal to policymakers and practitioners.