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.

This paper challenges the systematic, though often unacknowledged, gendered nature of much of current globalisation discourse and argues for the need to give attention to the gendered dimensions of the transnational flows of people into global cities and, relatedly, the gendering of metropolitan...

WILLIS K. D. and YEOH B. S. A. (2000) Gender and transnational household strategies: Singaporean migration to China, Reg. Studies 34 , 253-264. Increases in international flows of highly-skilled migrants have been characteristic of the economic globalization process. Professional and managerial...