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Deals with the impact of cereal production upon the Third World, specifically 'Modern Varieties' (MVs). Using evidence from plant breeding, economics and nutrition science, this title seeks to pinpoint what has been achieved, what has gone wrong and what needs to be done in future.

Deals with both the theoretical and the practical problems involved with agricultural development and economic integration in Latin America, with emphasis on those countries which are embraced by the Latin American Free Trade Association.

Explores contemporary US foreign aid policies and thinking in the Reagan era. This book argues that aid policy is often confused as a result of bureaucratic decision-making processes. It contrasts the experience of the many countries where aid-giving has produced unwished-for effects with the few countries where the desired results have occurred.

Examines the case for and against aid for developing nations, taking the example of British aid to Malawi's economic development since independence in 1964. This study suggests that without Britain's aid, Malawi's capacity to develop would have been severely undermined and that aid has not generally inhibited Malawi's efforts to help itself.

The OPEC countries' collective policy is to offer external development assistance free from political or commercial ties, with the purpose of expressing the solidarity of one group of developing countries with the rest. This book describes the OPEC Fund's organisational evolution into a fully-fledged international body.

Considers the rapid rate of economic growth in Kenya, combined with its apparent political stability, to determine whether or not this is indeed a case of 'growth without development' and, if so, where the responsibility for aid lies in this situation.

A study of aid effectiveness in India's pre-liberalisation era. It identifies those sectors where aid-funded interventions succeeded, and where they failed. It explains how India avoided problems of aid dependence, and managed the political tensions that are associated with aid policy dialogue.

Food aid is a controversial form of development assistance. This book considers aid from the UK, EEC, USAID, the World Food Programme, Canada and France, and draws many policy-orientated conclusions about the impact of food aid on nutrition, consumer prices and agricultural production.

Considers the main aspects of foreign aid to developing countries in terms of economic concepts and principles. This title gives an economic definition of aid and considers the motives for giving aid and the principles on which it may be allocated.

Provides an analysis of theories concerning the origins of economic inequality between nations. The author investigates the concept of underdevelopment, and focuses on successive Western 'systems of conceptualisation' of the relationship between the west and the rest of the world.

Answers the crucial question of how social change should be guided in the developing countries. The author begins by posing the problems of the general scope of modernization and the general criteria used in the modernization process. He concludes with a comparison of the development processes of the US, the Soviet Union, China, Japan and India.

Stresses the importance of development studies for sociology. The author argues that this field of study is emerging from the technical social scientific ghetto back into the mainstream of the 'classical tradition' of social theorizing, represented by Marx, Weber and Durkheim.

Presents a critical history of development studies since the Second World War, linking the recent, neo-Marxist, debate with the whole tradition in the field, going back to the work of economists like Arthur Lewis.

Examines the exchange between issues of development and problems of social theory. Thsi book is of interest to those interested in the contemporary 'restructuring' of social theory and to theorists of development who are rethinking their concerns in a period of pessimism and doubt.

Provides a critical analysis of socialist construction in underdeveloped countries. Pointing out that all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century have occurred in underdeveloped peripheral capitalist countries, the authors focus on the relationship between socialism and underdevelopment.

How do the intellectual origins and historical background of western and other theories of development affect their relevance to contemporary Third-World conditions? This is the central question behind the author's examination of 'development studies' from its origins in the late 1940s through to the contemporary era.

Analyses the major paradox of our era: the desire for progress and the mistrust of its consequences. The authors argues that the approach to the question of development may be the key to understanding both the present and what the future brings, representing a pattern which will seek to shape man's potential to his designs.

The four major strands in the work of Latin American Theorists are: structuralism, internal colonialism, marginality and dependency. This book includes a comprehensive analysis of the Latin American School of Development and a guide to the major Third World contribution to development theory.

Deals with the theory of underdevelopment. The author attempts a synthesis between the internal and external aspects of underdevelopment and, in the Marxist tradition, focuses on the impact of the external on the internal as the dominant reality.

Deals with crucial aspects of development, including disparities in global patterns of production and consumption. The author examines the exhaustion of non-renewable resources and the destruction of the natural environment and, on the potentially positive side, the effects of international transactions in the form of development aid and trade.

Traces the evolution of ideas about world inequality and the problem of development from the days before the 'underdeveloped countries' were considered to be a major problem, through the years dominated by 'economic growth', to the more searching approaches of the contemporary era.

Focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. The author concentrates on Mexico, where US companies have been taking advantage of inexpensive labour to establish 'maquilla' factories that assemble US parts for export.

First published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa's past experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of historical research to argue that the impact of Capitalism has resulted in economic progress and significant improvements in living standards.

Focussing on a Fieldwork study of the West Usambaras in Tanzania, this study deals with processes of class formation and capitalist accumulation, and the dynamics of rural poverty and gender relations. It argues that rural differentiation is systematically reinforced by the socialist state.

Explores how the Yoruba of Nigeria living in Ibadan and Lagos perceive the society in which they live. This title shows that, in general, these recent migrants and city dwellers see their society as open; they emphasise achievement rather than class opposition.

A title that is concerned with the rapid contemporary metropolitan development in the Third World, at a time when manufacturing and public service sectors were expending at a terrific rate. It examines the nature of Western class terminology derived largely from Marx and Weber, and assesses its utility in the analysis of Third World Urban society.

A study of contemporary social policy in developing countries, which places the emphasis upon the human needs and requirements for social change which confront any people and any government, wherever their political and international affiliations lie, whatever their economic and social convictions may be.

Examines the role that ruling military governments have played in African development. The author discusses military organisational values and skills in modernisation. He also investigates the relationship between the ruling military and existing social classes.

Changes in Soviet military thought often reflect changes in Soviet attitudes towards and expectations from involvement in Third World conflicts. This study traces the development of Soviet military thinking on the Third World and assesses its importance for the conduct of Soviet foreign policy.