Crosscurrents
Subtitle: international development
By: edited by Mark Charlton and Paul Rowe
Publisher: Thomson Nelson
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780176104771
Subjects: Economic development; Textbooks; Political development; Développement économique; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; Développement politique
Other titles: International development
Description: Presents a collection of essays that teach students to think critically and analyze the main issues in International Development. This title uses the successful "yes-no" debate format.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Contending perspectives on development. Are development and globalization a form of imperialism? ; Yes: Development and globalization as imperialism / Henry Veltmeyer ; No: Globalization and development / Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; title: Part 2: Political economy and development. Is the present trading regime beneficial to the world,s poor? ; Yes: Why globalization works / Martin Wolf ; No: How the rules rule the poor / Robert Isaak; title: Do fair trade networks create a fairer trading system? ; Yes: Coffee with pleasure just java and world trade / Laure Waridel ; No: The fair trade network in historical perspective / Gavin Fridell; title: Can sweatshops and cheap labour benefit the poor? ; Yes: In praise of cheap labour / Paul Krugman ; No: Why economists are wrong about sweatshops and the antisweatshop movement; title: Does outright debt cancellation ignore the real problems of Africa? ; Yes: Smart aid for Africa / George Ayittey ; No: The case for debt cancellation and increased aid to Africa / Moses Ochonu; title: Are property titling systems the key to increased economic growth? ; Yes: The mystery of the capital / Hernando de Soto ; No: On the mystery of Capital and the myths of Hernando de Soto / Alan Gilbert; title: Part 3: Development and international institutions. Do current world bank and IMF lending and aid models alleviate poverty? ; Yes: Macroeconomic policy and poverty reduction / Brian Ames, Ward Brown, Shanta Devarajan, Alejandro Izqueirdo ; No: An Empty glass how the Bretton Woods institutions sustain and exacerbate poverty; title: Do Canadian government foreign aid programs help to alleviate poverty? ; Yes: CIDA annual report 2004-05/ Canadian International Development Agency ; No: A hand out instead of a hand up where foreign aid fails / Dexter Samida; title: Are the millennium development goals achievable? ; Yes: Millennium development goals why they matter / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr ; No: What,s wrong with the millennium development goals / Michael Clemens and Todd Moss; title: Has the adoption of a rights-based approach to development failed? ; Yes: On high moral ground the incorporation of human rights by the development enterprise / Peter Uvin ; No: Making moral low ground rights as the struggle for justice and the abolition of development / Hugo Slim; title: Has gender mainstreaming been effective? ; Yes: Making institutions work for women / Aruna Rao ; No: What,s new about gender mainstreaming three decades of policy creation and development strategies / Rebecca Tiessen; title: Part 4: Conflict and political development. Will the post-Washington consensus really benefit Africa? ; Yes: Our common interest / Commission for Africa ; No: Africa,s great transformation / Richard Sandbrook; title: Is Ethnic diversity an inherent cause of conflict? ; Yes: Ethnic conflict in world politics / Barbara Harff and Ted Robert Gurr ; No: The banality of ethnic war / John Mueller; title: Is democratization conductive to development? ; Yes: Democracy as a universal value / Amartya Sen ; No: On democracy and development a contradiction in the politics of economics / Adrian Leftwich; title: Part 5: Global resources and the environment. Is the World Bank,s approach to sustainable development adequate? ; Yes: Pathways to a sustainable future / World Bank ; No: The WDR 2003 a strenuous tale of missed opportunities / Liane Schalatek and Barbara Unmussig; title: Can genetically modified food help solve global food needs? ; Yes: Can GM crops play a role in developing countries / Gregory Conko ; No: Why GM free / Independent science panel.