Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking [electronic resource] /
Jolly, R.editor.
The first volume of IDS Companions to Development Studies focuses on pivotal writing emerging from the IDS fellowship during the last 50 years. It includes five topics: perspectives and paradigms, debunking myths, development policy, gender and international perspectives, and policy, as well as names like Seers, Singer, Lipton, Reg Green.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Perspectives and Paradigms; 1 The Limitations of the Special Case; 2 The Late Development Effect; 3 Are Development Studies Relevant to British Problems?; 4 The Congruence of Marxism and Other Neo-Classical Doctrines; 5 Development Theory and the Experience of Development: Issues for the Future; Part II: Debunking Myths; 6 Economic Growth: What Are We Trying to Measure?; 7 Beware of Debt Speak; 8 Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?; Part III: Development Policy
9 Employment, Incomes and Equality: Lessons of the ILO Employment Strategy Mission to Kenya10 Redistribution with Growth: The Economic Framework; 11 Why the Poor Stay Poor; 12 Rapid Rural Appraisal: Rationale and Repertoire; 13 Adjustment with a Human Face; 14 Towards a Flexible State; 15 Education and the Market: Which Parts of the Neo-Liberal Solution Are Correct?; 16 Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management; Part IV: Gender; 17 The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process
18 Neo-Liberalism, Gender and the Limits of the MarketPart V: International Perspectives and Policy; 19 The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries; 20 Towards a Rational and Equitable New International Economic Order: A Case for Negotiated Structural Changes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The first volume of IDS Companions to Development Studies focuses on pivotal writing emerging from the IDS fellowship during the last 50 years. It includes five topics: perspectives and paradigms, debunking myths, development policy, gender and international perspectives, and policy, as well as names like Seers, Singer, Lipton, Reg Green.
Economic development.
Economic policy.
Political science.
Comparative politics.
Development economics.
Development Theory.
Development Policy.
Development Studies.
Political Science.
Comparative Politics.
Development Economics.