Milestones and turning points in development thinking
By: edited by Richard Jolly
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230368330
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Social aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; Economics; Economic development; Institutional economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography; Political aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing Countries
Description: "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"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Foreword; F.Stewart; title: Introduction; R.Jolly; title: PART I: PERSPECTIVES AND PARADIGMS; title: The Limitations of the Special Case; D.Seers; title: The Late Development Effect; R.Dore; title: Are Development Studies Relevant to British Problems?; M.Phil Faculty and Students; title: The Congruence of Marxism and other Neo-Classical Doctrines; D.Seers; title: Development Theory and the Experience of Development: Issues for the Future; J.Toye; title: PART II: DEBUNKING MYTHS; title: Economic Growth: What are we Trying to Measure?; D.Seers; title: Beware of Debt Speak; M.Faber; title: Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?; R.Chambers; title: PART III: DEVELOPMENT POLICY; title: Employment, Incomes and Equality: Lessons of the ILO Employment Strategy Mission to Kenya; R.Jolly& H.W.Singer; title: Redistribution with Growth: The Economic Framework; M.S.Ahluwalia& H.Chenery; title: Why the Poor Stay Poor; M.Lipton; title: Rapid Rural Appraisal: Rationale and Repertoire; R.Chambers; title: Adjustment with a Human Face; R.Jolly; title: Towards a Flexible State; R.Murray; title: Education and the Market: Which Parts of the Neo-liberal Solution are Correct?; C.Colclough; title: Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management; M.Leach, R.Mearns & I.Scoones; title: PART IV: GENDER; title: The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process; K.Young; title: Neo-liberalism, Gender and the Limits of the Market; N.Kabeer& J.Humphrey; title: PART V: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY; title: The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries; H.W.Singer; title: Toward a Rational and Equitable New International Economic Order: A Case for Negotiated Structural Changes; R.H.Green& H.W.Singer.