Handbook of development policy studies / edited by Gedeon M. Mudacumura, M. Shamsul Haque.
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| Series: | Public administration and public policy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Development discourse: Change versus continuity
- 1. Introduction: Development discourse and its challenges and directions
- 2. The narrative foundations of international development
- 3. Managing social change in complex environments: A chaos approach to environmental impacts
- 4. Sustainable development: What does sustainability mean to individuals in the conduct of their lives and businesses?
- 5. The myths of economic growth (GNP): Implications for human development
- 6. Social scientific knowledge and American interests: An episode in the development of development theory
- Part II. Development domains and their significance
- 7. Development as a multidimensional concern
- 8. From development administration to new public management in postcolonial settings: Internal problems, external prescriptions
- 9. Evaluating indicators for rural women's socioeconomic development: The case of Thailand
- 10. Fossilization of Chinese customs under colonial rule in Hong Kong: Implications for gender and development
- 11. Information and communication technologies as tools for development: Between skepticism and optimism
- Part III. Development policy issues in major sectors
- 12. Smallholder response to population pressure and adversity in Rwanda
- 13. Structural adjustment in Bulgarian agriculture
- 14. Factors affecting sustainable health care management programs in post-Soviet transitional economics
- 15. The impact of HIV/AIDS on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa: Policy implications
- 16. Industrial development policies and strategies: The African case
- 17. Science and technology policies for development: The case of Singapore
- Part IV. Development institutions: Local and global
- 18. Organizations, agencies, and other entities that impact the developing world: Internet sources
- 19. The role of nongovernmental organizations in rural development
- 20. Transforming a large-scale microfinance institution: Strategies and challenges in Bangladesh
- 21. Decentralization and local protectionism in China
- 22. Panchayati Raj: The Indian model of grassroots democracy and decentralized rural development
- 23. Good governance in Africa: Decentralized planning and means of participation in development in Botswana
- Part V. Development dilemmas: How to resolve?
- 24. The political and institutional dilemmas of sustainable development
- 25. Security, defense, and development in the current age
- 26. Democratization, demilitarization, and development in Africa: Theory and experience
- 27. Transnational labor migration, gender, and development in Southeast Asia
- 28. Transforming the development state in Korea under globalization: The case of IT industry
- 29. Understanding the postsocialist transition
- Part VI. Development trends and challenges
- 30. The growing challenges of globalization to self-reliant development in developing nations
- 31. The impact of globalization on the developmental role of local government in South Africa
- 32. Raising voices: Satellites, the Internet, and distributive discourse
- 33. Sustainable development through good governance in India: Challenges and strategies
- 34. Citizen participation and development policy studies: The limits of concept transfer
- 35. Decentralization, democratic centralism, and citizens' exclusion: A case study of Nebbi District in Uganda
- Part VII. Conclusion and future direction
- 36. Participatory development policy design: Integrating instrumental and democratic rationality
- 37. Decentralized governance and participatory development: The Asian experience
- 38. Equity and efficiency in international environmental agreements: A case study of the Kyoto protocol
- 39. Policy implementation in poor countries
- 40. Poverty reduction: The measurement question
- 41. Conclusion: Development agenda for the twenty-first century.