The rise & fall of development theory
by Colin Leys
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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.
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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 historyPlaces
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The rise & fall of development theory
1996, EAEP, Indiana University Press
in English
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