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The Volumes Development Studies cover an extensive range of critical areas that have one common theme of questioning the accepted parameters of development. An attempt has been made to accommodate conflicting points of view that would facilitate the readers to arrive at their own understanding of the problem under focus of study. Contributors to the Volumes have tried to argue the different choices of development that are necessarily context-bound and issue-driven in approach. Choices entail alternatives from among a range of viable options that tend to determine and influence various development projects—from relief programs and donation—to organized and structured socio-economic policies and programs. Other key development issues taken up include effect of globalization on child labour; masculinities in development; relative sustainability in water management; woman’s Self Help Groups and equitable health access; direct enterprise development support by non-profit organizations; globalization, state and disempowerment; population change and poverty of the elderly; and sustainable communication and structural issues.