"The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either socialism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability...

Introduction -- Development -- Human rights -- Development through trade: utilitarian, social contractarian, and communitarian considerations -- Development and aid: global financial institutions and private donors -- Climate change, sustainable development and the limits of green capitalism --...

Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility