Paul Hopper - Understanding Development

For Mum, Shaun, Tracey, Emma and Anna
and in memory of my Dad

Second edition

PAUL HOPPER

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Copyright Paul Hopper 2018

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First edition published in 2012 by Polity Press
This second edition published in 2018 by Polity Press

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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-1054-2

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hopper, Paul, 1963- author.
Title: Understanding development / Paul Hopper.
Description: Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017021116 (print) | LCCN 2017023716 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509510535 (Mobi) | ISBN 9781509510542 (Epub) | ISBN 9781509510504 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509510511 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Economic development. | Sustainable development. | Social policy. | Commercial policy. | Emigration and immigration.
Classification: LCC HD82 (ebook) | LCC HD82 .H597 2018 (print) | DDC 338.9--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017021116

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This revised and expanded edition of Understanding Development incorporates the key recent events and trends that are shaping international development, such as international migration, humanitarianism, population displacement, the global refugee crisis, the rise in the number of fragile states and the contested nature of trade and trade deals. This second edition also covers development in relation to global policy formation, focusing on the end of the UN Millennium Development Goals in 2015 and the start of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which will run until 2030. Three new chapters are added to this second edition dealing with these matters. However, the book builds on the framework of the original edition which presented a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development.

I am extremely grateful to Dr Louise Knight and Nekane Tanaka Galdos, and their colleagues at Polity Press, for their helpful advice and professional assistance at every stage in the production of the second edition of this book. I would also like to thank my anonymous reviewers who provided me with extensive notes on my manuscript and much to think about. Tony Inglis, my co-director at the Future Policy Organisation, and my brother, Shaun Hopper, helped me with the design of the graphics. My students on the BA (Hons) Globalisation: History, Politics, Culture and the MA Globalisation: Politics, Conflict and Human Rights at the University of Brighton deserve special mention both for allowing me to course-test this book and for their enthusiasm. I thoroughly enjoyed teaching and working with you all. As with my previous books, I dedicate this book to my family.