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Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Richard Jolly

    1. Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

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Part of the book series: IDS Companions to Development (CDS)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Perspectives and Paradigms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Limitations of the Special Case

      • Dudley Seers
      Pages 3-19

    3. The Late Development Effect

      • Ronald Dore
      Pages 20-27

    4. Are Development Studies Relevant to British Problems?

      • M. Phil. Faculty, Students
      Pages 28-42

    5. The Congruence of Marxism and Other Neo-Classical Doctrines

      • Dudley Seers
      Pages 43-56

    6. Development Theory and the Experience of Development: Issues for the Future

      • John Toye
      Pages 57-70

  3. Debunking Myths

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. Economic Growth: What Are We Trying to Measure?

      • Dudley Seers
      Pages 73-89

    3. Beware of Debt Speak

      • Mike Faber
      Pages 90-100

    4. Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?

      • Robert Chambers
      Pages 101-117

  4. Development Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. Employment, Incomes and Equality: Lessons of the ILO Employment Strategy Mission to Kenya

      • Hans W. Singer, Richard Jolly
      Pages 121-134

    3. Redistribution with Growth: The Economic Framework

      • Montek S. Ahluwalia, Hollis Chenery
      Pages 135-147

    4. Why the Poor Stay Poor

      • Michael Lipton
      Pages 148-159

    5. Rapid Rural Appraisal: Rationale and Repertoire

      • Robert Chambers
      Pages 160-171

    6. Adjustment with a Human Face

      • Richard Jolly
      Pages 172-185

    7. Towards a Flexible State

      • Robin Murray
      Pages 186-201

    8. Education and the Market: Which Parts of the Neo-Liberal Solution Are Correct?

      • Christopher Colclough
      Pages 202-217

    9. Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management

      • Melissa Leach, Robin Mearns, Ian Scoones
      Pages 218-233
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About this book

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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'There are path-breaking papers in this collection, which have shaped the way we think about development and (to a lesser extent, unfortunately) how it is done. Adjustment with a Human face is more preached than practiced, and the need for it has now spread to the so-called developed countries. And visions of a new world order remain visions. Consequently, these papers remain vividly and urgently relevant.' - Frances Stewart, Oxford Department of International Development, UK

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK

    Richard Jolly

About the editor

Sir Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, where he was Director from 1972-81. After this, he was an Assistant Secretary General of the UN until 2000, first as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF until 1995 and in UNDP from 1995-2000 as Principal Coordinator of UNDP's Human Development Report. From 2000-2010 he was co-Director of the UN Intellectual History Project and co-author of the final summary volume, UN Ideas that Changed the World. He has been a trustee of OXFAM, a Council member of ODI and President of the UN Association of the United Kingdom. He was knighted by the Queen in 2001 in recognition of his contributions to international development.

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