num_pages: 768
description: The Elgar Companion to Development Studies is an innovative and unique reference book that includes original contributions covering development economics as well as development studies broadly defined. This major new Companion brings together an international panel of experts from varying backgrounds who discuss theoretical ethical and practical issues relating to economic social cultural institutional political and human aspects of development in poor countries. It also includes a selection of intellectual biographies of leading development thinkers. While the Companion is organised along the lines of an encyclopaedia each of its 136 entries provide more depth and discussion than the average reference book. Its entries are also extremely they draw on different social science disciplines incorporate various mixes of theoretical and applied work embrace a variety of methodologies and represent different views of the world. The Elgar Companion to Development Studies will therefore appeal to students scholars researchers policymakers and practitioners in the filed of development as well as the interested layman.
language: English
title: The Elgar Companion to Development Studies
publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing