From the local to the global: key issues in development studies

321 Pages·2009·1.36 MB·English

by  McCann, Gerard(Editor);McCloskey, Stephen

From the Local to the Global
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From the Local to the Global
Key Issues in Development Studies
Second Edition
Edited by
GERARD McCANN and STEPHEN McCLOSKEY
PLUTO PRESS
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First published 2003
Second edition published 2009 by Pluto Press
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations viii
PART I DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE AND DEFINITIONS
1. Introduction: Recasting Development in a
Changing Global Economy 3
Stephen McCloskey
2. Measuring Human Development 22
Andy Storey
3. The Developing Globalisation of Justice:
The International Criminal Court at the Crossroads 41
Paul Hainsworth
PART II THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPMENT
4. Perspectives on Aid: Analysing the System 69
Joanne McGarry
5. Is Trade an Agent of Development? 85
Denis O’Hearn
6. Illegitimate Debt: An ‘Unfashionable’ Financial
Crisis 104
Nessa Ní Chasaide
PART III DEVELOPMENT POLICY
7. Climate Change and Development: Will Growth
End Poverty, or the Planet? 119
M. Satish Kumar
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vi FROM THE LOCAL TO THE GLOBAL
8. Europe, ‘Partnership’ and the Colonial Legacy 135
Gerard McCann
9. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals
in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Goal Too Far? 152
Chrispin R. Matenga
10. Gender and Development 171
Maeve Taylor
PART IV HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
11. Voices of Popular Power in Latin America 193
Ronaldo Munck
12. Redefi ning Refuge: The Shifting Status of the
Refugee 205
Anna Morvern
13. Understanding and Dealing with Child Labour:
Problems and Prospects 218
Madeleine Leonard
14. Development Education as an Agent of
Social Change: The Theory and Practice 237
Stephen McCloskey
15. Conclusion: Development in the Face of
Neoliberal Economic Strategies 266
Gerard McCann
Contributors 293
Index 296
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A publication of this nature would not have been possible without
the support and encouragement of our respective institutions,
and the organisations that each of the contributors is associated
with. We would like to thank the Centre for Global Education
and St Mary’s University College for their full support and co-
operation in the compilation of this text. We have benefi ted from
the support of colleagues and access to invaluable resources
in both institutions. We thank the various non-governmental
organisations who have supported this research and provided both
incentive and material. Without their work this type of endeavour
would be impossible. We would also like to thank Roger van
Zwanenberg and his team at Pluto Press for encouraging the idea
of a second edition and managing the production of the text with
great professionalism.
The contributors to this text deserve our thanks for working
to such diffi cult deadlines and delivering quality manuscripts.
This made our role as editors much easier. Together with the
contributors we relied on the support of a great many individuals
who diligently and patiently went through various aspects of
the text, offered specialist advice and gave us encouragement
throughout. We thank all who have made this edition possible.
Of course, as editors, we take full and ultimate responsibility for
the content of this publication.
Gerard McCann
Stephen McCloskey
August 2009
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ABBREVIATIONS
AAA Accra Agenda for Action
ADB African Development Bank
AFTA ASEAN Free Trade Area
AIDS Acquired Immune Defi ciency Syndrome
AMF Asian Monetary Fund
AMICC American NGOs Coalition for the ICC
APEC Asia-Pacifi c Economic Co-operation
ARV AIDS-Associated Retrovirus
ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations
AU African Union
BME Black and Minority Ethnic organisations
CAP Common Agricultural Policy
CBI Confederation of British Industry
CEDAW Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women
CET Common External Tariff
CFSP Common Foreign and Security Policy
CICC Coalition for an International Criminal Court
CIT Countries in Transition
CMI Chiang Mai Initiative
COMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
CPA Country Programmable Aid
CPD Continuing Professional Development
CSO Civil Society Organisation
CTT Currency Transaction Tax
DAC Development Assistance Committee
DAF Development Awareness Fund
DAWN Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era
DDCI Debt and Development Coalition Ireland
DEA Development Education Association
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ABBREVIATIONS ix
DEEEP Development Education Exchange in Europe
Project
DERC Development Education Research Centre
DERN Development Education Research Network
DFA Department of Foreign Affairs (Ireland)
DfID Department for International Development (UK)
DNGO Development Non-governmental Organisation
DRC Democratic Republic of Congo
EAC East African Co-operation
EBA ‘Everything but Arms’ Initiative
EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development
EC European Community (EEC, EU)
EC European Commission
ECA Economic Commission for Africa
ECOWAS Economic Commission of West African States
EDF European Development Fund
EE Environmental Education
EEC European Economic Community (EU, EC)
ELI Export-Led Industrialisation
EMU Economic and Monetary Union
ENDD European Network on Debt and Development
ERT European Round Table of Industrialists
ESAF Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility
ESD Education for Sustainable Development
EU European Union
EURODAD European Network on Debt and Development
FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation
FARC Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces
FDI Foreign Direct Investment
FfD Financing for Development
FOCUS Focus on the Global South
FSO Fund for Special Operations
FTA Free Trade Agreement
FTAA Free Trade Area of the Americas
G20 Group of Leading Financial Powers
G8 Group of Leading Industrial Powers
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