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Development and Change
Published for the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Edited by:
Kees Biekart, Amrita Chhachhi, Bridget O'Laughlin, Ashwani Saith, Servaas Storm and Ben White
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 19/43 Planning & Development
Impact Factor: 1.0
One of the leading international journals in the field of development studies and social change, Development and Change now appears six times a year, including the Development and Change Forum issue. Truly interdisciplinary in character, it includes contributions from all the social sciences and all intellectual persuasions concerned with development. With its history of publishing unconventional and challenging articles, the journal covers a broad range of topics in a mix of regular and special theme issues. Development and Change is devoted to the critical analysis and discussion of the complete spectrum of development issues.
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2008 FORUM ISSUE NOW ONLINE
The Forum issue is an unmissable annual resource for the student, teacher and practitioner of development.
This exciting annual issue with a different guest editor each year has a different character to the regular issues of Development and Change. In a number of self-contained sections, it provides an annual review of the state of the art of certain aspects of development studies, including:
• Focus: thematic review articles on major topics in the literature
• Debate: cutting edge contributions on a specific topic or issue
• Reflections: interviews with key figures in the world of development
• Legacies: a look back at the role played in development studies by influential individuals
• Assessments: incisive reviews of major international agency reports such as the World Development Report and the Human Development Report
Latest table of contents click here.
Free Articles
Debate: Governing Capital Corporate Social Responsibility and the Limits of Regulation
Bridget O'Laughlin
Reflections
Issa Shivji
Marc Wuyts
Alice Amsden
Rolph van der Hoeven
Walden Bello
Rosalba Icaza
ELECTRONIC EDITORIAL OFFICE
Authors are now able to submit their paper to Development and Change online via the new Electronic Editorial Office. Benefits will include:
• Quicker peer review
• Web-based manuscript tracking
• Online Reviewing
• Faster Response
Submit your paper online to Development and Change
BOOK SERIES
Development and Change publishes regular special issues on selected themes. Development and Change and Blackwell Publishing collaborate to produce these theme issues as a series of books, with the aim of bringing these pertinent resources to a wider audience. Recent titles from the series include Twilight Institutions edited by Christian Lund and China's Limits to Growth edited by Peter Ho and Eduard B. Vermeer.
For details of the full list of titles from the Development and Change book series click here.
DEVELOPING WORLD ACCESS
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
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MOST READ ARTICLES
Governing Capital? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Limits of Regulation
Bridget O'Laughlin
Contention and Ambiguity: Mining and the Possibilities of Development
Anthony Bebbington, et al
Rethinking the Emerging Post-Washington Consensus
Ziya Öniº and Fikret ªenses
Reflections on Latin American Rural Studies in the Neoliberal Globalization Period: A New Rurality?
Cristóbal Kay
Social Movements and Corporate Social Responsibility in South Africa
Patrick Bond
MOST CITED ARTICLES
Advancing a Political Ecology of Global Environmental Discourses
W. Neil Adger, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Katrina Brown, Hanne Svarstad
Gender and the Silences of Social Capital: Lessons from Latin America
Maxine Molyneux
Dilemmas of Counter-Mapping Community Resources in Tanzania
Dorothy L. Hodgson, Richard A. Schroeder
Moral Ecological Rationality, Institutions and the Management of Common Property Resources
Frances Cleaver
Avoiding Disaster: Diversification and Risk Management among East African Herders
Peter D. Little, Kevin Smith, Barbara A. Cellarius, D. Layne Coppock, Christopher Barrett
HIGHLIGHT ARTICLES
Orientalism Once More
Edward Said
Economic and Social Thinking at the UN in Historical Perspective
Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly and Thomas G. Weiss
Relocating Participation within a Radical Politics of Development
Samuel Hickey and Giles Mohan
Economic Globalization and Institutions of Global Governance
Keith Griffin
Is Good Policy Unimplementable? Reflections on the Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
David Mosse
Education for All: How Much Will It Cost?
Enrique Delamonica, Santosh Mehrotra and Jan Vandermoortele
Monitoring Elite Capture in Community-driven Development
Jean-Philippe Platteau
Heterogenity, Group Size and Collective Action: The Role of Institutions in Forest Management
Amy R. Poteete and Elinor Ostrom
Border Practices, Boundaries and the Control of Resource Access: A Case from China, Thailand and Burma
Janet C. Sturgeon
Poverty and Neo-Liberal Bias in the Middle East and North Africa
Ray Bush
India's Middle Classes and the Environment
Emma Mawdsley
TopEndorsements
The journal is truly interdisciplinary and welcomes articles which are accessible to a broad audience. It has a very good balance between theoretical and empirical articles. Development and Change regularly publishes extremely well known development economists, historians and sociologists.
Carmen Diana Deere, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
