Throughout the world development policies have made great strides in addressing the structural
inequalities that have traditionally characterized and divided world regions. Nonetheless many
development challenges remain in part because effective governance strategies are still
evolving in local national and international development systems. The global economic crisis
of 2008-2009 highlighted this fact as world leaders publicly declared the need for new forms of
governance and economic regulation. This book examines poverty and development within the
framework of recent global crises and governance with contributions from keynote panels at the
2010 Conference of the Consortium for Regional Integration and Social Cohesion which focused
in particular on concepts of fragility development vulnerability and democracy.
