ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Development Ethics provides readers with insight into the central questions of development ethics, the main approaches to answering them, and areas for future research. Over the past seventy years, it has been argued and increasingly accepted that worthwhile development cannot be reduced to economic growth. Rather, a number of other goals must be realised:

  • Enhancement of people's well-being
  • Equitable sharing in benefits of development
  • Empowerment to participate freely in development
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Promotion of human rights
  • Promotion of cultural freedom, consistent with human rights
  • Responsible conduct, including integrity over corruption

Agreement that these are essential goals has also been accompanied by disagreements about how to conceptualize or apply them in different cases or contexts. Using these seven goals as an organizing principle, this handbook presents different approaches to achieving each one, drawing on academic literature, policy documents and practitioner experience.

This international and multi-disciplinary handbook will be of great interest to development policy makers and program workers, students and scholars in development studies, public policy, international studies, applied ethics and other related disciplines.

chapter 1|13 pages

Introduction

What is development ethics?
ByJay Drydyk, Lori Keleher
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part Part I|37 pages

Contexts

chapter 2|12 pages

Global ethics

Development ethics as global ethics
ByNigel Dower
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chapter 3|6 pages

Integral human development

Development of every person and of the whole person
ByLori Keleher
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chapter 4|6 pages

Post-development

No development is good development
ByMitu Sengupta
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chapter 5|11 pages

Epistemology

Epistemic injustice and distortion in development theory and practice
ByAnna Malavisi
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part Part II|48 pages

Well-being

chapter 6|13 pages

Well-being

Happiness, desires, goods, and needs
ByRebecca Gutwald
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chapter 7|16 pages

The capability approach

Ethics and socio-economic development
ByOscar Garza-Vázquez, Séverine Deneulin
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chapter 8|9 pages

Happiness

Using subjective well-being metrics to gauge development
ByMilena Nikolova
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chapter 9|8 pages

Adaptive preferences

Accounting for deflated expectations
BySerene J. Khader
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part Part III|68 pages

Social and global justice

chapter 10|13 pages

Social and global justice

Models of development and theories of justice
ByJulian Culp
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chapter 11|18 pages

Gender

Feminist insights on inequality in development
ByChristine M. Koggel
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chapter 12|14 pages

Indigenous peoples

Self-determination, decolonization, and indigenous philosophies
ByKrushil Watene, Roger Merino
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chapter 13|8 pages

Horizontal inequalities

Individual capabilities and inequalities between groups
ByFrances Stewart
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chapter 14|6 pages

Children

Intergenerational transmission of poverty and inequality
ByFlavio Comim
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chapter 15|7 pages

Health

Social gradients and unjust health outcomes
BySridhar Venkatapuram
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part Part IV|37 pages

Empowerment and agency

chapter 16|12 pages

Empowerment

Participatory development and the problem of cooptation
ByKarie Cross Riddle
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chapter 17|5 pages

Agency

Expanding choice through democratic processes
ByMatthew R. G. Regan
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chapter 18|12 pages

Education

Worthwhile education for ethical human development
ByAlejandra Boni, Merridy Wilson-Strydom
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chapter 19|6 pages

Displacement

Land acquisition and disempowerment
ByAsmita Kabra, Jay Drydyk
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part Part V|41 pages

Environmental sustainability

chapter 20|17 pages

Sustainability and climate change

Human development and human responsibilities
ByAndrew Crabtree
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chapter 21|8 pages

Food production

Food security and agricultural development
ByPaul B. Thompson
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chapter 22|14 pages

Buen vivir and the rights of nature

Alternative visions of development
ByJohannes M. Waldmueller, Laura Rodríguez
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part Part VI|48 pages

Human rights

chapter 23|15 pages

Human rights

Shaping development ethics, pragmatics, law, policy and politics
ByPolly Vizard
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chapter 24|15 pages

The right to development

Ethical development as a human right
ByStephen P. Marks
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chapter 25|16 pages

Security

Building security through peace and reconciliation
ByStephen L. Esquith
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part Part VII|34 pages

Cultural freedom

chapter 26|11 pages

Cultural freedom

Worthwhile development for a diverse world
ByStacy J. Kosko
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chapter 27|10 pages

LGBTI people

“Being LGBTI” in international development
ByYuvraj Joshi
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chapter 28|11 pages

Religion

Religious contributions to development issues
ByKatherine Marshall
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part Part VIII|36 pages

Responsibility

chapter 29|13 pages

International responsibilities

From utility and humanitarianism to global justice
ByJulian Culp
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chapter 30|7 pages

Development practitioners

Absent in the deliberative discourse on development ethics
ByChloe Schwenke
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chapter 31|14 pages

Corruption

Concepts, costs, causes and challenges
BySirkku K. Hellsten
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part Part IX|57 pages

Regional perspectives

chapter 32|7 pages

Latin America

Inequality provoking critical thought
ByMario Solís
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chapter 33|6 pages

South Asia

Environmental concerns and human rights violations
ByShashi Motilal, Prakriti Prajapati
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chapter 34|5 pages

East Asia

Challenges to political rights
ByBenedict S. B. Chan
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chapter 35|7 pages

Middle East and North Africa

The Arab Spring as a political expression of ethical issues
ByAlain Piveteau, Eric Rougier
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chapter 36|7 pages

French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa

From buying and selling loyalty to demanding democracy
ByJérôme Ballet, Kouamékan J. M. Koffi, Alice Kouadio
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chapter 37|6 pages

Sub-Saharan Africa

Development ethics and post-colonial debate
ByByaruhanga Rukooko Archangel
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chapter 38|9 pages

Europe

European development ethics – past and present
ByLouise Haagh
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chapter 39|8 pages

USA and Canada

High-income maldevelopment
ByEric Palmer
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