Development Studies

Pete Ondeng, a Kenyan entrepreneur and specialist in economic development, challenges popular thinking about Africa and presents a refreshing optimism about the continent's future.

Are Mennonites, known around the world as caring and ethical people, successful practitioners of development? A refreshing view of sensitive and effective development work.

Jeffrey Sachs puts forth a plan to end world poverty by 2025. Sachs outlines in detail the nine steps needed to acheive this goal. This hopeful work makes the end of poverty not only desirable, but realistic.

This text provides the anthropological, economic, and historical context necessary to understand global problems, and why globalization and capitalism have generated protest and resistance.

Korten traces the historical progress of Empire and asserts that we can turn away from it. He argues that "Earth Community," an egalitarian, sustainable ordering of human society on democratic principles is in fact possible.

In the face of hunger, injustice, and poverty, religious people and institutions are developing initiatives to care for the environment and change the distribution of wealth in the world.

Jonathan Bonk explores the impact of missionaries' affluence on their ministry among the poor. Bonk's Mennonite heritage informs his insightful exploration of this important issue.

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Chambers challenges preconceptions dominating rural development, and looks at how rural poverty is often unseen and misperceived by those who are not themselves rural and poor. He argues for fundamental reversals in outsiders' learning, values, and behavior that allows for more realistic action in addressing rural poverty.

A rigorous study of the overall failure of the attempts of the North to transplant its institutions on the South and propel economic, social and political development.