Development Studies-Selected Information Resources  

(Recommended search phrases: Developing Countries, Development Planning, Development Plans, Development Policies, Development Studies, Third World Development)

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(Listed below are some key subject headings relevant to Development Studies.  For more precise results you may consider combining a search using one of these subject headings with another term such as the name of a geographic location, e.g. Africa.)

Developing Countries

Developing Countries--Politics and Government

Development Economics

Economic Development

Political Development

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Encyclopedia of the Developing World

Thomas M. Leonard, editor.  New York:  Routledge, 2006 “From ‘acid precipitation’ to ‘zionism’, the approximately 800 entries of this three-volume encyclopedia, ranging in length from 500 to 5000 words each, seek to provide understanding of the history, economic development, and politics of the developing world from 1945 to the present day.  The editor includes what used to be known as the ‘Second World,’ as well as those that for many are still known as the ‘Third World.’  Each country receives its own entry, but there are also larger regional entries.  Some 170 important organizations are covered, from the African Development Bank to the Zaptista National Revolutionary Army.  Also included are 134 entries on individual persons, with examples including Idi Amin, Menachem Begin, Chiang Kai-shek, Nicolae Ceausescu, Mikhail Gorbachev, Saddam Hussein, Frantz Fanon! , Jomo Kenyatta, Ferdinand Marcos, Joseph Stalin, Pope John Paul II, and Augusto Pinochet.  Thematic entries offer thematic interpretations and analytical discussions of such topics as apartheid, the Balkan wars of the 1990s, caste systems, capital flight, the impact of debt on development, currency regimes, infant mortality, the Intifada, the Great Leap Forward, intellectual property rights, Islamic fundamentalism, foreign direct investment, guerilla warfare, liberation theology, and the Nonaligned movement, to name a few.  Each entry includes a brief bibliography and guide to further reading and frequently includes guidance to related entries.  Alphabetical and thematic lists of entries are included at the beginning of each volume, along with a comprehensive analytical index at the end of each.”

Dewey Library/Reference:  HC 59.7 E52 2006

Handbook of Comparative and Development Administration

Edited by Ali Farazmand.  New York:  Marcel Dekker, 2001.  “Seventy-six essays cover various issues related to the study of comparative and development administration, and more specifically, administrative performance and political responsibility.  They discuss the administrative processes related to economic development, with an emphasis in the role of bureaucracies.  The volume focuses on contemporary conditions in developing countries; however, historical perspectives, and analyses of the conditions of industrialized countries are also included.  Chapters discussing public administration in various countries are grouped geographically.  Other chapters discuss the historical bases of public administration and bureaucracy, problems in comparative and development administration, ethics and accountability, bureaucratic politics and administrative theory, bureaucratic power,! and change, and revolution.” 

Dewey Library / JF 1351 H267 2001

Dictionary of Development: Third World Economy, Environment, Society

Edited by Brian W.W. Welsh & Pavel Butorin.  New York:  Garland Pub., 1990.   “Definitions and descriptions of the major facts, concepts, events, and issues (and their related periodicals) related to the development process.  Includes evaluative analyses of issues and policies employed to achieve development, and an annotated listing of non-governmental organizations involved in the development field.  A section of developing country indicators provides statistical data on Third World societies and economics.”

University Library/Reference:  HC 59.7 D513 1990                                                 

Dewey Library/Reference:  HC 59.7 d513 1990