Palgrave Advances in Development Studies aims to provide readers with an understanding of the disparate theories concerning development, their assumptions and the intellectual forces underpinning them. In thirteen specially commissioned essays, leading contributors from the field of Development Studies present the relevant material to analyze and evaluate current debates about development, together with the intellectual tools to judge contemporary arguments concerning development across the world and the ability to relate theories of development to contemporary policy issues.

CHRIS ALDEN Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK PETER CALVERT Emeritus Professor, Department of Politics, University of Southampton, UK JAMES CHIRIYANKANDATH Principal Lecturer, London Metropolitan University, UK PAULINE EADIE Nottingham University, UK HOWARD HANDELMAN Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA BJORN HETTNE Department of Peace and Development Research, Goteborg Univesrity, Sweden MEHRAN KAMRAVA Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, California State University, USA KATO LAMBRECHTS Christian Aid, London, UK LLOYD PETTIFORD Department of International Relations, Nottingham Trent University, UK ROBERT PINKNEY Research Associate, Northumbria University, UK SHIRIN M. RAI Professor of Politics, University of Warwick, UK GAUTAM SEN Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK TIMOTHY M. SHAW Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK IAN TAYLOR Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana, Botswana