The rise & fall of development theory
By: Colin Leys.
Publisher: EAEP; Indiana University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Nairobi; Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Development economics.; Economic development.; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Economic conditions -- 1960-
Description: This book is a 'stock-taking' of development theory at the end of the twentieth century. It argues that the assumptions on which development theory has rested since the 1950s no longer hold. The ex-colonial 'third world' for which development theory was originally developed has fractured into increasingly diverse regions, while the end of the post-war regime of regulated international trade and capital movements has drastically curtailed the scope for state economic intervention.

A much broader-based, more historical and more explicitly political theoretical effort is now called for.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.