Development Studies, Vol. IV

Edited by Robin Gosh, K.R. Gupta and Prasenjit Maiti, Atlantic Pub, 2010, x, 214 p, ISBN : 81-269-1390-9

Contents:

Preface.
1. The socio-economic impact of humanitarian relief programs and donations on recipient countries/Selene Biffi.

2. The effect of globalization on child labor in developing countries with especial emphasis on the Egyptian economy/Doaa M. Salman.

3. Attention to masculinities in development/Nisha.

4. Flexible process frameworks for the evaluation of relative sustainability in water management decisions/A. Louise Hurley, Stephen R. Mounce, Richard M. Ashley, David Butler and Fayyaz Ali Menon.

5. Stock market consequences of macro economic fundamentals/Ayub Mehar.

6. Women's Self-Help Groups and role of caste and class in equitable health access/Anant Kumar.

7. Complex problem of the direct enterprise development support by non-profit organisations subjected to the intercultural contact/Thierry Levy-Tadjine and Maya Velmuradova.

8. Globalization, state and disempowerment: a study of cotton farmers' suicide in Warangal/Sudha Menon.

9. Population change and poverty of the elderly in the reform-era China: a conceptual thinking/Juhua Yang.

10. The world is not enough: sustainable communication for a sustainable planet/Alfonso Gumucio Dagron. Contributors.

The volumes "Development Studies" cover an extensive range of critical areas that have one common theme of questioning the accepted parameters of development. An attempt has been made to accommodate conflicting points of view that would facilitate the readers to arrive at their own understanding of the problem under focus of study.

Contributors to the volumes have tried to argue the different choices of development that are necessarily context-bound and issue-driven in approach. Choices entail alternatives from among a range of viable options that tend to determine and influence various development projects -- from relief programs and donation -- to organized and structured socio-economic policies and programs.

Other key development issues taken up include effect of globalization on child labour; masculinities in development; relative sustainability in water management; woman's Self Help Groups and equitable health access; direct enterprise development support by non-profit organization; globalization, state and disempowerment; population change and poverty of the elderly; and sustainable communication and structural issues.

The volumes will be of interest to social and natural scientists, civil servants, policymakers, environmentalists, economists, ecologists, civil society organizations, think tanks, non-government organizations and development consultants.