<p>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 n
Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking
β Scribed by Richard Jolly (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 313
- Series
- IDS Companions to Development
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Limitations of the Special Case....Pages 3-19
The Late Development Effect....Pages 20-27
Are Development Studies Relevant to British Problems?....Pages 28-42
The Congruence of Marxism and Other Neo-Classical Doctrines....Pages 43-56
Development Theory and the Experience of Development: Issues for the Future....Pages 57-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Economic Growth: What Are We Trying to Measure?....Pages 73-89
Beware of Debt Speak....Pages 90-100
Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?....Pages 101-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Employment, Incomes and Equality: Lessons of the ILO Employment Strategy Mission to Kenya....Pages 121-134
Redistribution with Growth: The Economic Framework....Pages 135-147
Why the Poor Stay Poor....Pages 148-159
Rapid Rural Appraisal: Rationale and Repertoire....Pages 160-171
Adjustment with a Human Face....Pages 172-185
Towards a Flexible State....Pages 186-201
Education and the Market: Which Parts of the Neo-Liberal Solution Are Correct?....Pages 202-217
Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management....Pages 218-233
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process....Pages 237-242
Neo-Liberalism, Gender and the Limits of the Market....Pages 243-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries....Pages 265-277
Towards a Rational and Equitable New International Economic Order: A Case for Negotiated Structural Changes....Pages 278-295
Back Matter....Pages 296-302
β¦ Subjects
Development Theory; Development Policy; Development Studies; Political Science; Comparative Politics; Development Economics
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