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Built around interviews and personal field notes of authorities and researchers, which really help readers to see what actually happens during field work, this exciting new book gives practical advice on the key aspects of doing developmental fieldwork. A must read for all students, researchers and aid workers contemplating field work in emerging economies. -- Admos Chimhowu This is an up-to-date, thought-provoking and well-balanced publication that brings together the best insights of leading and young scholars at the nexus of development and participatory field research. Its relational, ethics- and power-sensitive perspective makes this book special.--

Economic development --- Fieldwork. --- Entwicklungsla?nder

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The book provides a comprehensive account of the human development (HD) approach to development. It shows how it emerged as a consequence of defects in earlier strategies, especially growth maximization. The book investigates the determinants of success and failure in HD across developing countries over the past forty years. Cross-country investigations show broad determinants of success and failure, while country studies give detailed examples of the policies and politics of HD. HD is multidimensional, and the book points to the importance of social institutions and social capabilities as essential aspects which are often overlooked. Yet the widely cited Human Development Index does not measure these aspects nor many of the other important dimensions of HD. The book analyses political conditions which are critical factors underlying performance on HD. The final chapter surveys global progress on multiple dimensions over a forty-year period and shows that there has been marked and pervasive improvement in many of them, including basic HD—life expectancy and infant mortality, education and incomes—as well as political freedoms. But there has been deterioration on some dimensions—with rising inequality in many countries and worsening environmental conditions. The book concludes with challenges to the approach—in particular insufficient attention has been paid to the macroeconomic conditions and economic structure needed for sustained success; and social institutions and political conditions have also been neglected. But the biggest neglect is the environment—with worsening global environmental conditions potentially threatening future achievements on HD

Economic development. --- Entwicklungsländer --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse

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Since the early 1990's, most developing economies have become more integrated with the world's economy. Trade and foreign investment barriers have been progressively lifted and international trade agreements signed. These reforms have led to important changes in the structures of these economies. The labor markets have adjusted to these major changes, and workers were required to adapt to them in one way or another.In 2006, the Social Protection Unit of the World Bank launched an important research program to understand the impact that these profound structural changes have had on workers in de

Globalisierung. --- Arbeitsbedingungen. --- Arbeitsmarkt. --- Labor market --- Labor --- International trade --- Marché du travail --- Travail --- Commerce international --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Entwicklungsländer. --- Developing countries --- Pays en développement --- Commerce. --- Commerce --- Developing countries -- Commerce. --- International trade -- Social aspects. --- Labor -- Social aspects -- Developing countries. --- Labor market -- Developing countries. --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Marché du travail --- Entwicklungsländer. --- Pays en développement --- Labor and laboring classes --- Employees --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Supply and demand --- Manpower --- Work --- Working class --- Markets

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This volume, the first of its kind, launches a conversation amongst humanities scholars doing fieldwork on the global south. It both offers indispensable tools and demonstrates the value of such work inside and outside of the academy. The contributors reflect upon their experiences of fieldwork, the methods they improvised, their dilemmas and insights, and the ways in which fieldwork shifted their frames of analysis. They explore how to make fieldwork legible to their disciplines and how fieldwork might extend the work of the humanities. The volume is for both those who are already deeply immersed in fieldwork in the humanities and those who are seeking ways to undertake it.

Literature. --- Literature --- Literature, Modern --- Cultural studies. --- Area studies. --- Literary Theory. --- Area Studies. --- Cultural Studies. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Philosophy. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Sociology. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Area research --- Foreign area studies --- Education --- Research --- Geography --- Study and teaching --- Ethnology --- Participant observation --- Fieldwork --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Southern Hemisphere --- Social life and customs. --- Enquêtes de terrain (ethnologie) --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Entwicklungsländer --- Dritte Welt --- Unterentwickelte Länder --- Entwicklungsland --- Less developed Countries --- LDC --- Global South --- Globaler Süden --- Low-income Countries --- Blockfreie Staaten --- Schwellenländer --- Hemisphere, Southern --- Earth (Planet) --- Enquêtes de terrain (ethnologie)

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Why do many Asian, African, and Latin American states have such difficulty in directing the behavior of their populations--in spite of the resources at their disposal? And why do a small number of other states succeed in such control? What effect do failing laws and social policies have on the state itself? In answering these questions, Joel Migdal takes a new look at the role of the state in the third world. Strong Societies and Weak States offers a fresh approach to the study of state-society relations and to the possibilities for economic and political reforms in the third world.In Asia, Africa, and Latin America, state institutions have established a permanent presence among the populations of even the most remote villages. A close look at the performance of these agencies, however, reveals that often they operate on principles radically different from those conceived by their founders and creators in the capital city. Migdal proposes an answer to this paradox: a model of state-society relations that highlights the state's struggle with other social organizations and a theory that explains the differing abilities of states to predominate in those struggles.

Contrôle social. --- Waterbury, John. --- United States. --- Shapiro, Yonathan. --- Sabri, Ali. --- Robinson, Ronald. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Nasser, Gamal Abdul. --- Migdal, Joel S. --- Mexico. --- Little, K. L. --- Lebanon. --- Kup, A. P. --- Jordan. --- Jabotinsky, Vladimir. --- Iraq. --- Iran. --- Horowitz, Dan. --- Histadrut (General Federation of Labor). --- Hansen, Roger D. --- Gurr, Tedd Robert. --- Gandhi, Indira. --- Free Officers (Egypt). --- France. --- Dekmejian, R. Hrair. --- Clapham, Chistopher. --- Cartwright, John R. --- Cardew, Frederic. --- Baker, Raymond William. --- Baer, Gabriel. --- Arabs of Palestine;Arab Socialist Union (ASU). --- Social control. --- Entwicklungsländer --- Pays en voie de developpement --- Conditions sociales. --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Arab Socialist Union (ASU). --- Arabs of Palestine.