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Developing countries, notwithstanding the enormous strides they have made in the last few decades, display fundamental economic inadequacies in a wide range of indicators. Chapters unpack the foundations and history of community development research and also look to its future, exploring innovative frameworks for conceptualizing community development. The companion to development studies, third geographies of development edition an introduction to development studies robert potter, university of reading, uk, tony binns, university of otago, new zealand, jennifer a. Working within the cambodian higher education system roger nault, candidate, master of arts, development studies program, royal university of phnom penh, kingdom of cambodia. Nair, director centre for development studies, kerala, india this book is about working professionally in development studies as a student, researcher or practitioner. In this introduction we discuss the opening quotations to this chapter in order to set the scene.