1. Exploring the Post-2015 Development Agenda from Southern Perspectives. - I: Overarching Issues of the Post-2015 Agenda . - 2. The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Favourable Enough to Africans? Ibrahima Hathie . - 3. Alternatives for Development or Alternatives to Development? Mireya Anabell...

Verlagsinfo: "Financializations of Development brings together cutting-edge perspectives on socio-political, socio-historical and institutional analyses of the evolving multiple and intertwined financialization processes of developmental institutions, programs and policies. In recent years, the...

"Analysis of North African revolt against authoritarianism, known as the 'Arab Spring', embraced reductionist explanations such as the social media, youth unemployment and citizens' agitations to regain dignity in societies humiliated by oppressive regimes. This book illustrates that...

1. An alchemy of economic and political action -- 2. State-building and state-society relations -- 3. Elements of resource challenges? -- 4. Politics of resource conflicts -- 5. Quiescence : regime type and government expenditure -- 6. Paradigm error : unemployment, poverty and food insecurity...

Introduction -- Knowledge for development as an exercise in power -- The knowledge brokering business : NGOs and feminisms in development -- Anatomy of a knowledge broker -- "The language is difficult" : interrogating progressive information production processes -- "Very clearly there is no...

"This book investigates how global business cycles impact the economies of developing countries. Global business cycles, the wave-like movements of economic expansion followed by contraction in aggregate economic activities, impact all economies comprising the global economy. The patterns being...