Recommended Readings
This is our current selection of what we feel are essential readings for anyone interested in International Development.
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of DestinyMaking Globalization Work: The Next Steps to Global JusticeWorld Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Dest...
by Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen's latest agenda shaping work
Making Globalization Work: The Next Steps t...
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
£20.00
Joseph Stiglitz's (former Word Bank Chief Economist) sequel to "Globalization and its Discontents"
World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolita...
by Thomas W. Pogge

A comprehensive moral philosophical exploration
The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our LifetimeThe Companion to Development StudiesIdeas for Development
The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happ...
by Jeffrey Sachs
£7.66
Jeffrey Sachs' (emminent economist and Special Advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan) vision on how to achieve poverty al...
The Companion to Development Studies

Provides a great overview to a vast subject area. Full of essential readings form all areas of development
Ideas for Development
by Robert Chambers
£7.49
Robert Chambers' latest thought provoking offering.
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill And So Little GoodParticipation: From Tyranny to Transformation? - Exploring New Approaches to Participation in DevelopmentDevelopment Economics
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Effo...
by William Easterly
£11.88
A passionate exploration by a former World Bank economist of why development efforts have yielded so little so far.
Participation: From Tyranny to Transformati...
£46.75
A rebuttal to Cooke and Kothari's "Participation: the new Tyranny?"
Development Economics
by Debraj Ray
£29.70
Surely one of the best textbooks on Development Economics