Part One: Conceptions of Poverty and Development
1:Why Poverty and Development?, Alan Thomas and Tim Allen
2:Poverty and Inequality, Naila Kabeer and Alan Thomas
3:Meanings and Views of Development, Alan Thomas
4:Agencies of Development, Duncan Green and Tom Kirk
Part Two: Aspects and Causes of Poverty
5:Hunger and Famine, Tim Allen, Shun-Nan Chiang, and Ben Crow
6:Diseases of Poverty, Melissa Parker and Cristin Fergus
7:Poverty and Education, Peggy Froerer
8:Unemployment and Making a Living, David Wield
9:Population, Poverty and Development, Valeria Cetorelli and Alan Thomas
10:Environmental Degradation and Sustainability, Kathryn Hochstetler
11:War and Armed Conflict, Tim Allen and Tom Kirk
Part Three: Transformation and Development
12:Diversity in Pre-Capitalist Societies, Janet Bujra
13:Colonialism, Capitalism, Development, Henry Bernstein
14:The Power of Colonial States, David Potter and Alan Thomas
15:The Era of Development - A short history, Tom Hewitt
16:Socialist Models of Development and the Rise of China, Guoer Liu and Andrew Kilmister
Part Four: Challenges for Development
17:Democratization, Governance, and Development, David Potter, Alan Thomas, and María del Pilar López-Uribe
18:Rethinking Gender Matters in Development, Charlotte Brown and Ruth Pearson
19:Engineering for Development, Peter Robbins, David Wield, and Gordon Wilson
20:New Directions and Challenges for Health and Development, Cristin Fergus, Tim Allen, and Melissa Parker
21:Migration, Security, and Development, Helen Hintjens, Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits, and Ali Bilgic
Part Five: Prospects for Development
22:Digital Technologies, Tony Roberts, Kevin Hernandez, and Becky Faith
23:City Life, Jo Beall
24:Identity Politics and Clashing Cultures, Tom Kirk, Tim Allen, and John Eade
25:Climate Change and the End of Development, Dina Abbott, Gordon Wilson, and Alan Thomas
26:Returning to the 'Great Transformation', John Harriss
27:Poverty and Development: Prospects for the future, Ikenna Acholonu, Charlotte Brown, and Ingrina Shieh
Conclusion

Poverty & Development in the 21st Century provides a fully updated, interdisciplinary overview of one of the world's most complex and pressing social problems. The book analyses and assesses key questions faced by practitioners and policy makers, ranging from what potential solutions to world poverty are open to us to what form development should take and whether it is compatible with environmental sustainability.

The third edition considers the complex causes of global poverty and inequality, introducing major development issues that include hunger, disease, the threat of authoritarian populism, the refugee crisis and environmental degradation.

Three new chapters illustrate the impact of climate, refugee and health crises on development by drawing on accounts of lived experience to explore the real-world implications of theory.

Refreshed student-centred learning features include boxes outlining key concepts, definitions and cases that explore contested issues in greater depth. These case studies encourage critical reflection on key issues, from refugees' personal accounts of containment to the Ebola epidemic to indigenous perspectives on climate change. Questions posed at the start of each chapter provide a framework for critical reflection on key assumptions and theories within the field of development. Each chapter also clearly unpacks figures and tables, supporting students to develop a nuanced understanding of economic arguments and key skills of data interpretation. -- Provided by Publisher.