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Approaches to sustainable development in cities of the South have focused too exclusively on narrow technical aspects of environmental protection, with no benefit to most residents in cities and peri-urban areas. However, in many countries of the South the disengagement of government along with budgetary constraints, a reliance on cost-recovery mechanisms within structural adjustment packages and increasing disparity between poor and rich, further reduces access by the poor to even the most rudimentary services. Development and Cities focuses on the political, social and economic viability of new or alternative approaches to urban management in the South that aim to increase access to adequate levels of basic services and healthy living and working conditions for all. Case-studies include cities in Argentina, Cuba, India, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Despite the policy change the Asian Development Bank's rural sector projects have continued to focus on increasing production, with little impact on unemployment or poverty. This study examines the reasons - both political and organizational - for the gap between policy practice.

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015?income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter?while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability. These bold goals can be met in all parts of the world if nations follow through on their commitments to work together to meet them. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals offers the prospect of a more secure, just, and prosperous world for all. The UN Mi

(1.) Northern Province. - February 1998. - VIII,200 S. : zahlr. graph. Darst., Kt., zahlr. Tab., Lit. S. 195-198. - (Development Paper ; 113). - ISBN 1-919692-09-6.; (2.) Gauteng. - February 1998. - VIII,184 S. : zahlr. graph. Darst., Kt., zahlr. Tab., Lit. S. 179-182. - (Development Paper ; 116). - ISBN 1-919692-12-6.; (3.) Northern Cape. - February 1998. - VIII,176 S. : zahlr. graph. Darst., Kt., zahlr. Tab., Lit. S. 171-173. - (Development Paper ; 131). - ISBN 1-919692-31-2.; (4.) Western Cape. - April 1998. - VIII,206 S. : zahlr. graph. Darst., Kt., zahlr. Tab., Lit. S. 201-203. - (Development Paper ; 132). - ISBN 1-919692-32-0.; (5.) KwaZulu-Natal. - July 1998. - VIII,211 S. : zahlr. graph. Darst., Kt., zahlr. Tab., Lit. S. 207-210. - (Development Paper ; 133). - ISBN 1-919692-33-9.; (6.) Mpumalanga. - August 1998. - VIII,185 S. : zahlr. graph. Darst., Kt., zahlr. Tab., Lit. S. 181-184. - (Development Paper ; 134). - ISBN 1-919692-34-7.; (7.) North West. - September 1998. - VIII,181 S. : zahlr. graph. Darst., Kt., zahlr. Tab., Lit. S. 177-179. - (Development Paper ; 135). - ISBN 1-919692-35-5

This book analyses the impact of the Western idea of 'modernity' on development and underdevelopment in Africa. It traces the genealogy of the Western idea of modernity from European Enlightenment concepts of the universal nature of human history and development, and shows how this idea was used to justify the Western exploitation and oppression of Africa. It argues that contemporary development, theory and practice is a continuation of the Enlightenment project and that Africa can only achieve real development by rejecting Western modernity and inventing its own forms of modernity. The book i.