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31 Development Studies attempts to understand:• how societies change and progress over time• What help to make these changes
32 Two approaches:• theoretical (understand how change occurs)• applied (examine particular and how they can be applied)
33 Areas of focus:Asia-Pacific region; urbanisation (including employment and migration and trade
34 you will develop the skills to:• understand key development issues in detail • gather data (both and textual data)
35 • carefully findings
36 • on a research project
37 Brief history of Development Studies: 1950s - The discipline emerged.issues were the major consideration.
38 1970s - Development Studies became more critical of commonand underlying assumptions. Questions were raised about power
39 environment sustainability and unequal issues.
40 1980s-today - National governments were no longer as important. Growing Interest in small-scale practices such as giving very small .