Encountering development
Subtitle: the making and unmaking of the Third World
By: Arturo Escobar.
Series: Princeton studies in culture/power/history
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Economic development; Economic history -- 1945-; Developing countries -- Economic conditions; Developing countries -- Social conditions
Description: "Evaluates development enterprise and development discourse from a critical theory perspective. This view of development policies and control mechanisms employs Colombian case studies of the Programa de Desarrollo Rural Integrado and of the local application of the discourse of women in development"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-274) and index.