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abstract

  • 2016 Rae Lesser Blumberg and samuel Cohn. All rights reserved. Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North, is a provocative, engaging and interesting collection of real-world case studies in development and globalization focusing on under-emphasized threats to growth and human welfare worldwide. Created by two of America's top development sociologists, it targets undergraduates, graduates, academics and development professionals. Crises such as falling state capacity, declining technological innovation, increasing class inequality and persisting gender inequality are considered, along with their economic and social consequences.

altmetric score

  • 2

author list (cited authors)

  • Cohn, S., & Blumberg, R. L.

citation count

  • 4

editor list (cited editors)

  • Blumberg, R. L., & Cohn, S.

Book Title

  • Development in Crisis: Threats to human well-being in the Global South and Global North

publication date

  • January 2015