num_pages: 234
description: The stakes involved in development debates are enormous. While development can use the productive resources of society to improve the living conditionsof the world's most vulnerable people, it can also form the basis of intense manipulative power on behalf of elites. This important new text surveys theleading theories and models of economic and social development. Chapters examine sociological, economic, neo-Marxist, poststructuralist, feminist, andradical democratic approaches, as well as an array of development models including modernization, dependency, and neoliberalism. Reaching conclusionsat odds with much of the recent literature, this volume is critical of neoliberal, market-driven economic growth, arguing instead that an alternative, democratic form of development remains a viable possibility.
language: English
title: Theories of Development
titlecomplete: Theories of Development
genres: Economic Development, Political Science, Psychology, Nonfiction, Economics, International Development, Sociology
ratings_count: 148
publisher: Guilford