Development Studies
The Development Studies programme offers regional and global perspectives on financial, political and social processes. Titles are co-published with a variety of organizations, including scholarly international institutes and non-governmental organizations, such as UNDP and the Asian Development Bank. This programme includes a variety of book series.
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Fundamentals of Market Access for Pharmaceuticals
Eric Bouteiller, Annie Chicoye
This book provides a conceptual and pragmatic approach to the complexity of market access for pharmaceuticals across different types of economies and health care systems in the world, providing a comprehensive tool box with key concepts and methods for students or executives from companies or payers interested in the field.
Hardback
9781839992179
October 2024
Forthcoming
£75.00 / $75.00This book provides a conceptual and pragmatic approach to the complexity of market access for pharmaceuticals across different types of economies and health care systems in the world, providing a comprehensive tool box with key concepts and methods for students or executives from companies or payers interested in the field.
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Invention and Craft, Second Edition
Exercising Creativity in College Writing and Research
Ronda Leathers Dively
Invention and Craft: Exercising Creativity in College Writing and Research is a first-year college composition textbook that leverages creativity theory to demystify practices associated with writing in various academic and public genres. Working from the premise that all writing is creative, Invention and Craft approaches students as meaning-makers while emphasizing the importance of forward- and backward- reaching knowledge transfer.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839989773
October 2024
Forthcoming
£89.95 / $89.95Invention and Craft: Exercising Creativity in College Writing and Research is a first-year college composition textbook that leverages creativity theory to demystify practices associated with writing in various academic and public genres. Working from the premise that all writing is creative, Invention and Craft approaches students as meaning-makers while emphasizing the importance of forward- and backward- reaching knowledge transfer.
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From Reversal of Fortune to Economic Resurgence
Industrialization and Leadership in Asia’s Prosperity and Nigeria’s Regress
Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, Oyebanke Abejirin
This book examines Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, and five selected Asian countries in comparative development and sectoral perspectives. It employs quantitative and qualitative methods, including case studies and statistical/econometric methods, to analyze factors that separate the sample countries that made rapid economic progress in “catching up” and those that tend to be stagnating and “falling behind.”
Hardback
9781839991974
September 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book examines Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and most populous country, and five selected Asian countries in comparative development and sectoral perspectives. It employs quantitative and qualitative methods, including case studies and statistical/econometric methods, to analyze factors that separate the sample countries that made rapid economic progress in “catching up” and those that tend to be stagnating and “falling behind.”
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Aspirational Chinese in Competitive Social Repositionings
A Re-Analysis of Societal Dynamics from 1964 to 2000
Jia Gao
Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning and numerous new sources, this book fills the analytical gap caused by the research focus on either macro- or micro-level issues through analysing how everyday Chinese had reacted to and influenced the numerous changes in China from 1964 to 2000.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982880
August 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00Drawing upon a new perspective of competitive social repositioning and numerous new sources, this book fills the analytical gap caused by the research focus on either macro- or micro-level issues through analysing how everyday Chinese had reacted to and influenced the numerous changes in China from 1964 to 2000.
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Complex Solutions to Local Problems
The Dilemma of the African Union in Somalia
Jude Cocodia
This book questions the dominant narrative used in stereotyping Africa and the status of Al-Shabaab in Somalia’s quest for peace. It trumps up local alternatives to solving conflicts on the continent and avers that it is possible to revert to these local mechanisms of governance and conflict resolution as has been done in Somaliland with positive results.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988196
September 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book questions the dominant narrative used in stereotyping Africa and the status of Al-Shabaab in Somalia’s quest for peace. It trumps up local alternatives to solving conflicts on the continent and avers that it is possible to revert to these local mechanisms of governance and conflict resolution as has been done in Somaliland with positive results.
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Towards a New Art of Border Crossing
Edited by Ananta Kumar Giri, Arnab Roy Chowdhury, David Blake Willis
The new art of border-crossing is inspired by a new politics, art, and a spirituality of shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. This border-crossing challenges us to do creative, aesthetic, ethical, political and spiritual work in the fields of not only physical borders and bounded territories but also cultural, social, intellectual and civilizational borders.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986383
April 2022
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The new art of border-crossing is inspired by a new politics, art, and a spirituality of shared sovereignties and non-sovereignties. This border-crossing challenges us to do creative, aesthetic, ethical, political and spiritual work in the fields of not only physical borders and bounded territories but also cultural, social, intellectual and civilizational borders.
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Economic Development of Caricom
From Early Colonial Times to the Present
Winston H. Griffith
The book seeks to determine why CARICOM nations, despite their incorporation into the international economy for almost four hundred years, have experienced little meaningful economic transformation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278105
October 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00The book seeks to determine why CARICOM nations, despite their incorporation into the international economy for almost four hundred years, have experienced little meaningful economic transformation.
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Reclaiming Development Studies
Essays for Ashwani Saith
Edited by Murat Arsel, Anirban Dasgupta, Servaas Storm
As the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly being challenged, this collection of essays argues for the continued necessity to ground the field in a critical political economy approach informed by the contributions of Ashwani Saith.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279966
June 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00As the mission, relevance and intellectual orientation of development studies is increasingly being challenged, this collection of essays argues for the continued necessity to ground the field in a critical political economy approach informed by the contributions of Ashwani Saith.
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Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities
Europe and The Caribbean
Edited by Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Rhoda Reddock
This book engages with decolonial social and cultural analyses of global entangled inequalities by focusing on their local articulations globally and, in particular, in Germany, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276958
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book engages with decolonial social and cultural analyses of global entangled inequalities by focusing on their local articulations globally and, in particular, in Germany, Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom.
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Marx in the Field
Edited by Alessandra Mezzadri
Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ‘to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be adapted during fieldwork and they discuss data collection methods supporting Marxian analysis, including during COVID-19 times.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274497
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ‘to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be adapted during fieldwork and they discuss data collection methods supporting Marxian analysis, including during COVID-19 times.
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Minutes to Midnight, 2nd Edition
Paul Dukes
The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781785274985
October 2020
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£24.95 / $24.95The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history.
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Climate Chaos and its Origins in Slavery and Capitalism
Reva Blau, Judith Blau
Climate Chaos argues powerfully that unless global citizens come together to change the infrastructure and value system of capitalist greed and consumption, human society will not survive past this century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275272
October 2020
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£29.99 / $29.99Climate Chaos argues powerfully that unless global citizens come together to change the infrastructure and value system of capitalist greed and consumption, human society will not survive past this century.
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Up Against the Wall
The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border
Peter Laufer
foreword by Vicente FoxThe book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexico border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275241
September 2020
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£34.95 / $34.95The book offers a step-by-step blueprint of radical proposals for the U.S.-Mexico border that go far beyond traditional initiatives to ease restrictions on immigration. The book argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open for Mexicans wishing to travel north.
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Music Scenes and Migrations
Space and Transnationalism in Brazil, Portugal and the Atlantic
Edited by David Treece
‘Music Scenes and Migrations’ brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe, with particular attention to the role of the city in producing, signifying and mediating music-making in the colonial and post-colonial Portuguese-speaking world.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273841
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Music Scenes and Migrations’ brings together new work from Brazilian and European scholars around the themes of musical place and transnationalism across the Atlantic triangle connecting Brazil, Africa and Europe, with particular attention to the role of the city in producing, signifying and mediating music-making in the colonial and post-colonial Portuguese-speaking world.
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Land and Agrarian Transformation in Zimbabwe
Rethinking Rural Livelihoods in the Aftermath of the Land Reforms
Grasian Mkodzongi
This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274152
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform.
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Resurgent Africa
Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development
Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
foreword by Akinwunmi Ayodeji Adesina‘Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development’ is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefit the majority. It provides in-depth analysis and knowledge of Africa’s diversified economies by establishing relationships between industrialization trends; rates of urbanization; and urban living standards, income growth and employment in Africa.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273445
March 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development’ is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefit the majority. It provides in-depth analysis and knowledge of Africa’s diversified economies by establishing relationships between industrialization trends; rates of urbanization; and urban living standards, income growth and employment in Africa.
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Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America
Edited by Alberto Chong, Mónica Yáñez-Pagans
Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and quasi-experimental methods.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271991
February 2020
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Information Technologies and Economic Development in Latin America provides a collection of rigorous empirical studies that contributes to a better understanding of the role and impact of old and new information technologies on Latin American economic development through the use of randomized and quasi-experimental methods.
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Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Agrarian Questions in Egypt and Tunisia
Habib Ayeb, Ray Bush
‘Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa’ examines the political economy of agrarian transformation with case studies of Egypt and Tunisia. It critiques the dominant tropes of food security offered by the international financial institutions and promotes the importance of small-scale family farming in developing sustainable food sovereignty.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785270871
September 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00‘Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa’ examines the political economy of agrarian transformation with case studies of Egypt and Tunisia. It critiques the dominant tropes of food security offered by the international financial institutions and promotes the importance of small-scale family farming in developing sustainable food sovereignty.
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The Politics of Swidden farming
Environment and Development in Eastern India
Debojyoti Das
‘The Politics of Swidden farming’ is an ethnography of swidden farming practised – a characteristically remote, inaccessible and under-researched region of South Asia. The research ties on both archival-historical and contemporary ethnographic discourses on swidden farming and agrarian development among the eastern Naga community inhabiting the northeastern borderland state of Nagaland.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087754
September 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Politics of Swidden farming’ is an ethnography of swidden farming practised – a characteristically remote, inaccessible and under-researched region of South Asia. The research ties on both archival-historical and contemporary ethnographic discourses on swidden farming and agrarian development among the eastern Naga community inhabiting the northeastern borderland state of Nagaland.
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Worst-Case Economics
Extreme Events in Climate and Finance
Frank Ackerman
In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ‘Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087075
October 2017
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£49.00 / $49.00In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ‘Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.
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The Unmaking of Arab Socialism
Ali Kadri
This study examines the perplexing reasons for the Arab world's developmental descent from the pinnacle of Arab socialism to its present desolate condition, focusing on Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084401
October 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00This study examines the perplexing reasons for the Arab world’s developmental descent from the pinnacle of Arab socialism to its present desolate condition, focusing on Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.
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The Military and Denied Development in the Pakistani Punjab
An Eroding Social Consensus
Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
with Sohaib BodlaThis book explores retrogressive agrarian interventions by Pakistan’s military in the Punjab and details the social resentment and resistance it has initiated.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082896
November 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This book explores retrogressive agrarian interventions by Pakistan’s military in the Punjab and details the social resentment and resistance it has initiated.
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Tobacco Control and Tobacco Farming
Separating Myth from Reality
Edited by Wardie Leppan, Natacha Lecours, Daniel Buckles
This book exposes the myths behind tobacco industry claims that implementing policies aimed at curbing tobacco consumption will negatively affect farmers and that no economically sustainable alternatives exist.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082933
September 2014
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£99.00 / $99.00This book exposes the myths behind tobacco industry claims that implementing policies aimed at curbing tobacco consumption will negatively affect farmers and that no economically sustainable alternatives exist.
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Arab Development Denied
Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment
Ali Kadri
Ali Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab world has undergone a process of developmental descent, or de-development, under the combined barrage of wars and neoliberal policies.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082674
July 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00Ali Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab world has undergone a process of developmental descent, or de-development, under the combined barrage of wars and neoliberal policies.