Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Ageing and development / Peter Lloyd-Sherlock -- 2. Agriculture and economic growth / C. Peter Timmer -- 3. Assets, markets and entitlement / Julian May -- 4. Basic needs approach / Frances Stewart -- 5. Bauer, Peter Tamas (1915-2002) / Walter Elkan -- 6. Boserup, Ester (b. 1910) / Irene Tinker -- 7. Cambridge controversies in growth theory / Avi J. Cohen -- 8. Capability approach / David A. Clark -- 9. Capitalism and development / John Sender and Jonathan R. Pincus -- 10. Child labour / Kristoffel Lieten -- 11. Child poverty / Santosh Mehrotra -- 12. Chronic poverty / David Hulme -- 13. Class / Alastair Greig, David Hulme and Mark Turner -- 14. Colonialism / Stephen Howe -- 15. Conflict and conflict resolution / Tom Woodhouse -- 16. Corporate social responsibility / David Birch -- 17. Cost-benefit analysis for development / John Weiss -- 18. Crisis management / David Alexander -- 19. Culture and development / Des Gasper -- 20. Debt crisis / A.P. Thirlwall -- 21. Democracy and development / Irma Adelman -- 22. Dependency / John S. Saul and Colin Leys -- 23. Development ethics / Denis Goulet -- 24. Diploma disease / Angela W. Little -- 25. Disability and development / Barbara Harriss-White and Devi Sridhar -- 26. Disaster mitigation / Ailsa Holloway -- 27. The Domar model / Robert M. Solow -- 28. East Asian crisis / Kaushik Basu -- 29. Economic aid / Howard White -- 30. Education for all and the millennium development goals / Keith M. Lewin -- 31. Education, returns to / Geeta Kingdon -- 32. Endogenous growth / Heinz D. Kurz -- 33. Environment and development / David Pearce -- 34. Ethnicity / Robert H. Bates -- 35. Famine as a social phenomenon / S.R. Osmani -- 36. Food security / John Cathie -- 37. Foreign direct investment / Luiz de Mello -- 38. Gender and development / Ruth Pearson -- 39. Global inequalities / Richard Jolly -- 40. Globalisation and development / Leslie Sklair -- 41. Globalisation and development policy / Ian Goldin -- 42. Green revolution and biotechnology / Jonathan R. Pincus -- 43. Haq, Mahbub ul (1934-1998) / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Selim Jahan -- 44. The Harrod model of growth and some early reactions to it / G.C. Harcourt -- 45. Hill, Polly (1914-2005) / C.A. Gregory -- 46. Hirschman, Albert Otto (b. 1915) / Osvaldo Feinstein -- 47. History and development studies / Amiya Bagchi -- 48. HIV/AIDS and development / Tony Barnett -- 49. Human capital / Sriya Iyer -- 50. Human development / Mozaffar Qizilbash -- 51. Human development and economic growth / Gustav Ranis -- 52. Human development index / Amartya K. Sen -- 53. Human rights / Bas de Gaay Fortman -- 54. Human security / Selim Jahan -- 55. Income distribution / Richard Jolly -- 56. Inequality measurement / James E. Foster -- 57. Informal sector employment / Jan Breman -- 58. Institutions and development / Pranab Bardhan -- 59. Internal migration and rural livelihood diversification / Rachel Murphy -- 60. International trade / Arvind Panagariya -- 61. Kaldor, Nicholas (1908-1986) / J.S.L. McCombie -- 62. Kalecki, Michał (1899-1970) / Jan Toporowski -- 63. Kindleberger, Charles Poor (1910-2003) / Mića Panić -- 64. Kuznets, Simon (1901-1985) / Moshe Syrquin -- 65. Labour markets / Guy Standing -- 66. Land reform / Henry Bernstein -- 67. Least developed countries / Dharam Ghai -- 68. The Lewis model / Prabhat Patnaik -- 69. Lewis, (William) Arthur (1915-1991) / Andrew S. Downes -- 70. Livelihoods approach / Frank Ellis -- 71. Marx, Karl (1818-1883) / Peter Nolan -- 72. Media communications and development / Rachel Murphy -- 73. Microfinance / Michael Woolcock -- 74. Migration for rural work / Ben Rogaly -- 75. Migration, international / Ronald Skeldon -- 76. Militarism and development / Jean Drèze -- 77. Military expenditure and economic growth / Jean Drèze -- 78. Millennium development goals / Howard White -- 79. Missing women / Stephan Klasen -- 80. Modernisation theory / Ray Kiely -- 81. Myrdal, Gunnar (1898-1987) / Paul Streeten -- 82. National accounting / John M. Hartwick -- 83. National economic planning / Paul G. Hare -- 84. Nationalism and development / John Harriss -- 85. NGOs and civil society / Anthony Bebbington and Sam Hickey -- 86. North, Douglass (b. 1920) / Alexander J. Field -- 87. Participatory research / Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi -- 88. Planning / Marshall Goldman -- 89. Population and development / Tim Dyson -- 90. Population : policy and ethics / Shailaja Fennell -- 91. Post-development / Arturo Escobar -- 92. Poverty and growth / Martin Ravallion -- 93. Poverty measurement / Stefan Dercon -- 94. Poverty, characteristics of / Mamphela Ramphele -- 95. Prebisch, Raul (1901-1986) / Edgar J. Dosman -- 96. Privatisation / Paul Cook, Colin Kirkpatrick and David Parker -- 97. Property rights and development / Daniel W. Bromley -- 98. Public works / Anna McCord -- 99. Purchasing power parity / John Cullis -- 100. Rawls, John (1921-2002) / Nigel Dower -- 101. Refugees / Khalid Koser -- 102. Religion and development / Sabina Alkire -- 103. Rent seeking and corruption / Mushtaq Khan -- 104. Robinson, (Edward) Austin (Gossage) (1897-1993) / G.C. Harcourt -- 105. Robinson, Joan (1903-1983) / G.C. Harcourt -- 106. Rural poverty reduction / Frank Ellis -- 107. Seers, Dudley (1920-1983) / Mike Faber -- 108. Sen, Amartya Kumar (b. 1933) / Carl Riskin -- 109. Sharecropping / Terence J. Byres -- 110. Singer, Hans (b. 1910-2006) / D. John Shaw -- 111. Smith, Adam (1723-1790) / Peter Nolan -- 112. Social capital / Ben Fine -- 113. Social exclusion / Adolfo Figueroa -- 114. Social justice / Christopher Bertram -- 115. The Solow-Swan model / Robert Dixon -- 116. State and development / Atul Kohli -- 117. Stock market and economic development / Ajit Singh -- 118. Streeten, Paul Patrick (b. 1917) / Hugh Stretton -- 119. Structural adjustment / Howard Stein -- 120. Structural transformation / Moshe Syrquin -- 121. Structure and agency / Jan Douwe van der Ploeg -- 122. Sustainable consumption / David Pearce -- 123. Sustainable development / David Pearce -- 124. Technology and development / Sanjaya Lall -- 125. Tinbergen, Jan (1903-1994) / Louis Emmerij -- 126. Tourism and development / Ron Ayres -- 127. Trade and industrial policy / Ha-Joon Chang -- 128. Trade negotiations and protectionism / Chien Yen Goh -- 129. Transition / Michael Ellman -- 130. Transnational corporations / Bruce Weisse -- 131. Uneconomic growth / Herman E. Daly -- 132. Urban livelihoods / Carole Rakodi -- 133. Urbanisation and Third World cities / David Satterthwaite -- 134. Vulnerability and coping / Frank Ellis -- 135. Washington Consensus / John Weeks and Howard Stein -- 136. Water and development / Jaqui Goldin.

The Elgar Companion to Development Studies is an innovative and unique reference book that includes original contributions covering development economics as well as development studies broadly defined. This major new Companion brings together an international panel of experts from varying backgrounds who discuss theoretical, ethical and practical issues relating to economic, social, cultural, institutional, political and human aspects of development in poor countries. It also includes a selection of intellectual biographies of leading development thinkers.