Development Theory: Critiques and Explorations
Published on 18. June 1991
XX, 185 pages
978-1-349-11925-7 (ISBN)
Description
By the author of "Voting Behaviour in an Indian Village" and "Reaching Out to the Poor", this book deals with development studies. Topics covered range from Asian development experience and unexplored theoretical explanations to ethno-development.
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04/1991
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Part 1 Segmented theories of development: the development purists; the development interrelationists; the development integrationists; the development expatriats; some general observations. Part 2 Variety of development experiences: Western development experience and a variety of theoretical explanations; Latin American development experience and region specific theoretical explanations; Asian development experience and unexplored theoretical explanations; some general observations. Part 3 Development process - a grassroots perspective: the development enmesh; planned development under public initiative; commercial and industrial development under private initiative; rural development under cooperative initiative; rural poverty requiring socially concerned human initiative; unequal development opportunities - unequal human responses; some general observations. Part 4 Dimensions of development theory: diversity of development experience; development complex and continuum; the development core; ethnodevelopment; back to the conceptual drawing board.
