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Economic Development at the Community Level
Creating Local Wealth and Resilience in Developing Countries
Mark Miller
- 298 pages
- English
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Economic Development at the Community Level
Creating Local Wealth and Resilience in Developing Countries
Mark Miller
Ă propos de ce livre
How do we create more economic opportunities in the low-income communities of the developing world? How can these communities build greater resilience against economic uncertainties, natural disasters, wars, and the growing threats of climate change? This book reviews the research literature of economic development in low-income communities of the developing worldâfrom rural villages to neighborhoods in the largest cities on earth.
This book is unique in gathering, organizing, and synthesizing research on economic development at the community level, across the developing world, drawing from multiple disciplines, publications, methodologies, regions, and countries. Part I provides an overview and context of the many challenges facing the developing world today, as well as the often-heated debates over what "development" is and how to make it happen. Part II reviews the extensive research literature in major fields of community economic development including education and human capital, overcoming the "curse of natural resources, " entrepreneurship and micro-finance, tourism, and sustainability.
The audience includes undergraduate students interested in development and sustainability, graduate students and other young researchers in a wide range of disciplines who are finding their own focuses, and established researchers who wish to expand their agendas. An expanded bibliography accompanies the book as a downloadable supplement.
Foire aux questions
Informations
PART I
THE CHALLENGES OF CREATING WEALTH AND RESILIENCE FOR COMMUNITIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
1
WHAT STANDS IN THE WAY OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND COMMUNITIES BECOMING DEVELOPED?
⊠[T]he place was bedlam most nights: people fighting, cooking, flirting, bathing, tending goats, playing cricket, waiting for water at a public tap, lining up outside a little brothel, or sleeping off the effects of the grave-digging liquor dispensed from a hutâŠ.(Boo 2012, x)
Every morning, thousands of waste-pickers fanned out across the airport area in search of vendible excessâa few pounds of the eight thousand tons of garbage that Mumbai was extruding daily. These scavengers darted after crumpled cigarette packs tossed from cars with tinted windows. They dredged sewers and raided dumpsters for empty bottles of water and beer⊠(Boo 2012, xii). [O]nly six of the slumâs three thousand residents had permanent jobs. (The rest, like 85 percent of Indian workers, were part of the informal, unorganized economy.)(Boo 2012, 6)
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- PART I The challenges of creating wealth and resilience for communities in developing countries
- PART II The opportunities for creating wealth and resilience for low-income communities in developing countries
- Index