Thinking about development
Subtitle: development matters
By: Bjorn Hettne
Publisher: Zed
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London [u.a.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781848132467; 9781848132474; 9781848132481
Subjects: Entwicklungszusammenarbeit; Entwicklungstheorie; Welt; Economic development; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Entwicklung
Description: This text provides a concise introduction to development thinking, contemporary development theory and practice as well as a critical analysis of the values that lie behind them. It presents development as an 'essentially contested concept', that has meant a number of things at various times to different people in different places.