International Development: Issues and Challenges (2nd ed)

This book is the second edition of the 2008 book 'International Development: Issues and Challenges' which in turn was designed as a replacement for the 2004 text 'Key Issues in Development', to which most members of the current author team contributed and on which a number of their chapters draw substantially, although all have been thoroughly revised and updated or are entirely new or rewritten. it acknowledges that development is a contested and, in some senses, unstable idea, having progressed from the early post-war years when it meant little more than increasing average income to, more than fifty years later, including a range of conditions and circumstances that impact on life in countries that continue to variously define themselves in the modern, or post-modern, world.