Rwandan development policy is frequently referred to as ‘social engineering’. As this concept is not analytically …

development practice exist to foster such mechanisms, and recommend in-depth studies to enhance our understanding of social …

Racism touches many of the relationships created by the international development industry, but has been largely … encounters between staff working in development in international agencies, networks, governments and national organizations in …

tourism as the centrepiece of their development strategy. This occurs in the context of narrowing developmental options … development strategy. …

New ways are needed of framing the international politics of development in the context of global restructuring. The … politics. However, the new global politics of development can be satisfactorily framed, provided that we adopt an approach that … reinterprets development as a universal problem. Attempts to classify states and societies in advance of research must also be …

This paper is concerned with the observation that rights-based approaches to development have tended to ignore the ways … of a research agenda within development studies on ‘religion and development’ has meant that a significant indigenous …

Government policy in post-1994 South Africa, whilst upholding the principles of community participation and development … growth agenda, that of Spatial Development Initiatives, has catalysed both ‘bottom-up’ development and also meaningfully … Saldanha Steel Plant and the Paternoster Fish Market, which have been components of a Spatial Development Initiative in the …

Local and regional development has characteristically focused upon localities and regions in the historically … industrialized and urbanized countries of the Global North. Development Studies has been concerned with more recently industrializing … disconnection constrains explanation and policy formulation in addressing global development challenges. This article argues for …

Post-war reconstruction and development are no longer viewed as separate conceptual or practical domains. This evolving …

Many key dilemmas in contemporary development studies centre on disjunctures between theoretical innovation, formal …