Development as Theory and Practice: Current Perspectives on Development and Development Co-Operation

ISBN-13: 9780582414174 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 294 str.

Simon, David

Opis

This student textbook addresses broad contemporary perspectives and debates on development and development co-operation. It introduces the notions of development and what it means from different perspectives. It also focuses on development aid and examines the changing relationship between donors and recipients, and the effects of these relationships on the wider communities in these countries.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Rethinking Development 2. Development Reconsidered: Current Developments in Development Thinking 3. Studying Development: a Third World Student's View 4. Contextualising Professional Interaction in Anglo-African Human Geography 5. Ground Truthing and the Place of the Area Specialist in Development Studies 6. Rethinking Development in India: the Perspective Crisis and Prospects  Reconstructing Development Assistance and Development Co-operation 7. The Changing Theory and Practice of Development Assistance since World War II 8. Policy and Process in Multilateral Aid: Healthy Cities in Developing Countries 9. The S.E. Asian Transitional Economies and International Agencies 10. Continuity and Change in the Dutch-Malinke Bilateral Aid Relationship 11. Norwegian People's Aid: Popular Organisations and Local Power 12. Conclusions 13. Conclusions and Prospects

O autorze

David Simon, Anders Narman