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Development Studies Books
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Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,202 ratings — published 1999
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 11,277 ratings — published 2005
Globalization and its Discontents (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,270 ratings — published 2002
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 65,938 ratings — published 2012
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.83 — 5,693 ratings — published 2006
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,261 ratings — published 1998
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,500 ratings — published 2002
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 8,041 ratings — published 2007
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 516 ratings — published 1994
Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.70 — 8,375 ratings — published 2009
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,978 ratings — published 2011
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 40,487 ratings — published 1968
The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 653 ratings — published 1990
An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,566 ratings — published 2013
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 468,233 ratings — published 1997
The Wretched of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 34,246 ratings — published 1961
State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 107 ratings — published 2004
Theories of Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 166 ratings — published 1999
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,127 ratings — published 2017
A Radical History of Development Studies: Individuals, Institutions and Ideologies (Development Essentials)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.36 — 28 ratings — published 2005
The Critical Development Studies Handbook: Tools for Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published 2011
The Development Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 2008
A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,484 ratings — published 2005
Introduction to International Development: Approaches, Actors, and Issues (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.48 — 64 ratings — published 2008
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,685 ratings — published 2012
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,936 ratings — published 1999
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,154 ratings — published 1973
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,608 ratings — published 2007
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,659 ratings — published 2001
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,851 ratings — published 2007
Woman's Role in Economic Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 39 ratings — published 1970
Peasants and the Art of Farming: A Chayanovian Manifesto (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 42 ratings — published 2013
Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change (Agrarian Change and Peasant Studies Series)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 115 ratings — published 2010
The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 13 ratings — published
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,441 ratings — published 2006
Rethinking Development Economics (Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy and Development, 1)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 51 ratings — published 2003
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,047 ratings — published 2019
International Development: Ideas, Experience, and Prospects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 2014
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,114 ratings — published 2017
A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 191 ratings — published 2020
Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,285 ratings — published 2015
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,849 ratings — published 1983
Everybody Loves a Good Drought (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,326 ratings — published 1996
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 90,002 ratings — published 2003
The Developmental State (Cornell Studies in Political Economy)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.62 — 32 ratings — published 1999
Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 157 ratings — published 2015
Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 154 ratings — published 2006
The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 241 ratings — published 2007
The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power (Development Essentials)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 129 ratings — published 1991
Embedded Autonomy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as development-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 89 ratings — published 1991










