Development Studies (Hardcover)  | Released: 2008

The Volumes Development Studies cover an extensive range of critical areas that have one common theme of questioning the accepted parameters of development. An attempt has been made to accommodate conflicting points of view that would facilitate the readers to arrive at their own understanding of the problem under focus of study. Contributors to the Volumes have tried to argue the different choices of development that are necessarily context-bound and issue-driven in approach. Choices entail alternatives from among a range of viable options that tend to determine and influence development paradigmsfrom the role of the State in an increasingly borderless worldto use of Information Communication Technology to represent local knowledge. Other key development issues taken up include developing a unified framework for understanding the depth and duration of poverty; John Stuart Mills idea of progress; Amartya Sens capability approach; Gandhian values for social transformation; globalization and urban governance; and effectiveness of Public Distribution System as a food security measure. The Volumes will be of interest to social and natural scientists, civil servants, policymakers, environmentalists, economists, ecologists, civil society organizations, think tanks, non-government organizations and development consultants.Table of Contents: 1. Towards a Unified Framework for Understanding the Depth, Breadth and Duration of PovertyDAVID CLARK AND DAVID HULME; 2. John Stuart Mill and the Idea of ProgressR.N. GHOSH & R. GABBAY; 3. On the Role of the State in an Increasingly Borderless WorldJAMUS JEROME LIM; 4. Using Information Communication Technologies to Represent Local Knowledge Concerning the LandscapeJON CORBETT AND PETER KELLER; 5. The Capability Approach: Its Development, Critiques and Recent AdvancesDAVID A. CLARK; 6. The Role of Social Capital in the Development of a Citywide ICT Cluster in Nanjing, ChinaMEINE PIETER VAN DIJK; 7. Gandhian Values and Post-Development: Models for Social TransformationPETER COX; 8. Globalization and Urban Governance: Prophecies for 21st Century Asian CitiesGOLAM MOINUDDIN; 9. Effectiveness of Public Distribution System as a Food Security Measure: A Case Study in Burdwan District of West BengalRAJAT JYOTI SARKAR & MANIKLAL ADHIKARY; Contributors