Title: The rise & fall of development theory
First published: 1996
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.
Subjects: Development economics, Economic conditions, Economic development, Africa, sub-saharan, economic conditions, Conditions économiques, Economie du développement, Développement économique, Economic history, Entwicklungstheorie, Wirtschaftsentwicklung, Wirtschaftstheorie, Ontwikkelingseconomie, Economische politiek, Theorieën, Economic conditions in africa, Africa - business, Economics, & finance, General & miscellaneous african history
Places: Sub-Saharan Africa
Time periods: 1960-
LC classification: HC800 .C628 1996