DevelopmentISBN: 978-0-7456-3067-0
Hardcover
196 pages
January 2010, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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- A short introduction to the concept of "development" which critically evaluates what this concept means in the modern world.
- The book analyses the various ways in which development has been used in social and political analysis over the past 200 or so years.
- The book presents and charts the evolution of development theory in innovative ways, relating it concretely to the successes and failures of development both in different eras and places.