The rise & fall of development theory

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

Times: 1960-