"The relationship between food and development has always been controversial. Over the last 30 years, development in the north and south has failed to deliver people a decent diet. While some people have too little food and die as a consequence; some people have too much food and die from...

Meanings of development -- Modernization, Keynesianism and neoliberalism -- Structuralism, neo-Marxism and socialism -- Politics and development -- Grassroots development -- Social and cultural dimensions of development -- Environment and development -- Conclusions.

"Global Finance and Development" describes and explains the variety of relationships between finance and development. Finance is broken down into its various aspects in separate chapters on aid, debt, portfolio investment, FDI, microfinance and remittances (see sections three and four for...

Poverty, profit and the political economy of violent conflict -- Institutions : hardware and software -- People : participation, civil society and gender -- Conflict resolution, transformation, reconciliation and development -- Post-conflict reconstruction and development -- Development, aid and...