1. The role of natural resources in economic development -- 2. The capabilities and limits of information programs -- 3. The costs of natural resource information -- 4. The state of natural resource information in Latin America -- 5. Scheduling expenditures for natural resource information -- 6....

1. Global development -- 2. The origins and development of capitalism -- 3. Industrialization and the expansion of capital : core and periphery redefined -- 4. City states and nationalism -- 5. The imperial 'historic bloc' of the nineteenth century -- 6. The system unravels : contraction,...

1. Introduction : foreign direct investment and human development / Olivier De Schutter, Johan Swinnen and Jan Wouters -- 2. International investment law : the perpetual search for consensus / Jan Wouters, Sanderijn Duquet and Nicolas Hachez -- 3. Foreign direct investment as an engine for...

1. The rebirth of sustainable development -- 2. Chronicling the key impacts on Rio+20 -- 3. How did it all come to happen? -- 4. Multiplying commitments -- 5. From Rio+20 to 2015 and the new development agenda.

part PART I Introduction -- chapter 1 Innovation, knowledge and technology in late development -- part PART II Framework for knowledge in late development -- chapter 2 The generation and growth of knowledge in late development -- chapter 3 Technological capability and development -- chapter 4...

1. What is sustainable development? -- 2. The global challenges of sustainable development -- 3. Actors and actions in sustainable development -- 4. Sustainable rural livelihoods -- 5. Sustainable urban livelihoods -- 6. Sustainable development in the developing world : an assessment.