Gerard (Hrsg.) Mccann

From the Local to the Global

Key Issues in Development Studies

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The international development sector has found itself confronting new challenges to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights. Climate change has loomed large as a crisis for development practitioners and environmentalists, affecting the most vulnerable in the Global South. The ongoing financial crisis has created recurrent recessions in the global North, while causing budget lines to be reduced for development aid.This textbook highlights the extent to which the local and global are interconnected in today's globalised economy. It questions the legitimacy of the neoliberal model of development which propelled us into the crisis.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: McCloskey, Stephen (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78371-282-3
EAN: 9781783712823
Produktnummer: 24016552
Verlag: Pluto Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'560 KB
Auflage: 3. Auflage

Über den Autor

Gerard McCann is a Senior Lecturer in International Studies at St Mary's University College (Queen's University, Belfast). He is Director of the Global Dimension in Education project and coordinates partnership initiatives with universities in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. He has written extensively on the European Union's development and education policies.