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Milestones and turning points in development thinking

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: IDS companions to developmentPublication details: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2012Description: xvii,302p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230368330
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9001 22 MI-
LOC classification:
  • HD75 .M564 2012
Other classification:
  • POL010000 | SOC015000 | SOC042000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword; F.Stewart -- Introduction; R.Jolly -- PART I: PERSPECTIVES AND PARADIGMS -- The Limitations of the Special Case; D.Seers -- The Late Development Effect; R.Dore -- Are Development Studies Relevant to British Problems?; M.Phil Faculty and Students -- The Congruence of Marxism and other Neo-Classical Doctrines; D.Seers -- Development Theory and the Experience of Development: Issues for the Future; J.Toye -- PART II: DEBUNKING MYTHS -- Economic Growth: What are we Trying to Measure?; D.Seers -- Beware of Debt Speak; M.Faber -- Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?; R.Chambers -- PART III: DEVELOPMENT POLICY -- Employment, Incomes and Equality: Lessons of the ILO Employment Strategy Mission to Kenya; R.Jolly& H.W.Singer -- Redistribution with Growth: The Economic Framework; M.S.Ahluwalia& H.Chenery -- Why the Poor Stay Poor; M.Lipton -- Rapid Rural Appraisal: Rationale and Repertoire; R.Chambers -- Adjustment with a Human Face; R.Jolly -- Towards a Flexible State; R.Murray -- Education and the Market: Which Parts of the Neo-liberal Solution are Correct?; C.Colclough -- Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management; M.Leach, R.Mearns & I.Scoones -- PART IV: GENDER -- The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process; K.Young -- Neo-liberalism, Gender and the Limits of the Market; N.Kabeer& J.Humphrey -- PART V: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY -- The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries; H.W.Singer -- Toward a Rational and Equitable New International Economic Order: A Case for Negotiated Structural Changes; R.H.Green& H.W.Singer.
Summary: "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 names like Seers, Singer, Lipton, Reg Green"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword; F.Stewart -- Introduction; R.Jolly -- PART I: PERSPECTIVES AND PARADIGMS -- The Limitations of the Special Case; D.Seers -- The Late Development Effect; R.Dore -- Are Development Studies Relevant to British Problems?; M.Phil Faculty and Students -- The Congruence of Marxism and other Neo-Classical Doctrines; D.Seers -- Development Theory and the Experience of Development: Issues for the Future; J.Toye -- PART II: DEBUNKING MYTHS -- Economic Growth: What are we Trying to Measure?; D.Seers -- Beware of Debt Speak; M.Faber -- Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?; R.Chambers -- PART III: DEVELOPMENT POLICY -- Employment, Incomes and Equality: Lessons of the ILO Employment Strategy Mission to Kenya; R.Jolly& H.W.Singer -- Redistribution with Growth: The Economic Framework; M.S.Ahluwalia& H.Chenery -- Why the Poor Stay Poor; M.Lipton -- Rapid Rural Appraisal: Rationale and Repertoire; R.Chambers -- Adjustment with a Human Face; R.Jolly -- Towards a Flexible State; R.Murray -- Education and the Market: Which Parts of the Neo-liberal Solution are Correct?; C.Colclough -- Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management; M.Leach, R.Mearns & I.Scoones -- PART IV: GENDER -- The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process; K.Young -- Neo-liberalism, Gender and the Limits of the Market; N.Kabeer& J.Humphrey -- PART V: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY -- The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries; H.W.Singer -- Toward a Rational and Equitable New International Economic Order: A Case for Negotiated Structural Changes; R.H.Green& H.W.Singer.

"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 names like Seers, Singer, Lipton, Reg Green"--

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