Subject(s): Policy sciences -- Economic development -- Development discourse and its challenges and directions, narrative foundations of international development, managing social change in complex environments- environment impacts, economic growth, human development, social scientific knowledge and American interests -- Development domains and their significance : Development administration to new public management in post-colonial settings, rural women's socio-economics development, gender and development in China, information and communication technologies as tools for development -- Development policy issues in major sectors : Smallholders response to population pressure and adversity, structural adjustment in Bulgarian agriculture, factors affecting sustainable health care management programs in post soviet transitional economies, impact of HIV/AIDS on economic development in sub-saharan Africa, industrial development policies and strategies, science and technology policies for development in Singapore -- Development institutions-local and global : Organizations, agencies and other entities that impact the developing world-internet sources, role of NGOs in rural development,transfroming large scale microfinance institutions, decentralization and local protectionism in China, Indian model of grassroots democracy and decentralized rural development, good governance in Africa -- Development dilemmas : Political and institutional dilemmas of sustainable development, transnational labour migration, gender and development in southeast Asia, transforming the development state in Korea under globalization, understanding postsocialist transition -- Development trends and challenges : Growing challenges of globalization to self reliant development in developing nations, impact of globalization on developmental role of local government in south Africa, sustainable development through good governance in India, citizen participation and development policy studies, decentralization, democratic centralism and citizens exclusion -- Participatory development policy design, decentralized governance and participatory development in Asia, equity and efficiency in international environmental agreements, policy implementations in poor countries, poverty reduction