"The work of development and anthropology in many ways share the same setting, yet their relationship has always been uneasy; their practitioners often separated by vast expanses of mutually incompatible premises, methods and objectives." "Ideal for newcomers to both fields, thi…
This text presents the contributions that early development theory can make to growth economics in answering why some countries are richer than others and why some economies grow faster than others.
Mainstream economics generally assumes a universalistic market-oriented economic behavior that drives countries to adopt one economic system, with marginal variations. This book extends the scope of theory and applications by asserting that other distinct behaviors evolve and do…
Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction: understanding development -- Theorizing development -- Approaching development -- Health, education and population -- Gender and development -- Conflict, security and development -- Trade and development -- Particip…
This issue of 'International Development Policy' looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. After a period of robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction associated with hi…
