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Section editor: Salvatore Babones, University of Sydney Clusters and Regional Development The Colonial Encounter and Its Legacy Cultural Political Economy Dependency and World-Systems Perspectives on Development Development Economics: From Classical to Critical Analysis The Development of “Lands of Recent Settlement” Development and Religion Development, Welfare Policy, and the Welfare State Diasporas and Development Expanding Urban Slums Food Insecurity Fundamentalism and Globalization Global Commodity Chains and Global Value Chains Global Indigenous Rights and Responses Identity, Difference, and Development Income Inequality and Economic Development Land Reform and Landless Movements Measuring Global Poverty Microfinance and Social Performance The Millennium Development Goals and the Politics of Global Poverty Modernity and Its Contradictions Modernization Theory Neoliberalism and Its Critics Postdevelopment Theory Teaching Global Development Studies Transnational Social Movements What is Development? Women and Development Salvatore Babones, University of Sydney “Development” is a difficult word. Like many difficult words, it means very different things to otherwise relatively like-minded and similarly well-informed people. It is certainly an odd state of things, even by ... log in or subscribe to read full text