Development Studies

This is a very useful book for all readers who study Development Studies. The book covers comprehensively, accurately and in an interesting way twenty chapters. This book covers the following chapters:

• Concepts of development
• Social formation and development
• Articulation of the modes of production
• Capital labour and surplus value
• Traditional theory of social development
• Modernization theory of social development
• Theories of dependence and underdevelopment
• Political development in pre-colonial Africa
• Political development during the colonial rule
• Political developments after colonialism
• Concept of poverty
• Population and poverty
• Environment and poverty
• Environmental conservation and sustainable development
• Technology and development
• Concept of reproductive health
• HIV/AIDS and youth
• Reproductive health education
• Concept of gender
• Gender mainstreaming in development arena