Product Description: Written by a team of internationally respected experts, this book explores the conditions under which social policy--defined as the public pursuit of secure welfare--operates in the poorer regions of the world. Making an important contribution by breaking away from the traditional focus on Europe and North America, it develops a new conceptual framework for understanding different types of welfare regimes in a range of countries of Asia, Latin America and Africa...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In recent years Micro-credit, the loan of small sums to people excluded from normal banking processes, has emerged as an important and growing issue in Development Policy. The result of disillusionment with the ability of either government agencies or international aid programmes to change the situation of the poor, Micro-credit has proved very successful...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bangladesh: Whose Ideas, Whose Interests? is a gathering together of various writtings since 1974 by Geoffrey D. Wood on rural development issues in Bangladesh.

Product Description: This important work takes an in-depth look at an innovative approach to agrarian reform between 150 groups of landless people and Proshika, a Bangladeshi NGO. We see how the landless empower themselves to invest in irrigation equipment, sink wells, install pumps, and sell irrigation services to landed farmers...read more

Product Description: Labelling in Development Policy reveals how labelling is perceived as natural and objective by sheltering behind an ideology of rationality. In reality labelling is an instrument of power through which the relationships between class interests and institutional processes are constructed and sustained...read more