This paper explores how the concept of resilience has been used in development studies. Set amidst the rise of resilience in sustainable development, it offers insights for scholars and policy-makers, alike. Sampling 419 resilience-oriented journal articles from 2017-22, it uses Kuhnian...

This book aims to reclaim the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies - something that is increasingly challenged from different directions. Confronted by the status quoist enterprise of randomized control trials (RCTs) on the one hand and the radical endeavour to...

1. Development economics and development studies -- 2. The nature of development economics -- 3. Economic growth and structural change -- 4. Economic growth and developing countries -- 5. Economic growth and economic development since 1960 -- 6. The global economy and developing countries -- 7....