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Rethinking Development Theory and Policy: A Human Factor Critique

Book by Senyo B-S. K. Adjibolosoo; Praeger Publishers, 1999

Subjects:

Developing Countries--Social Conditions, Developing Countries--Social Policy, Economic Development--Social Aspects, Human Capital--Developing Countries

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For many decades post-colonial leaders in developing countries have tried various development plans based on orthodox development thinking and theorizing. Yet the developing world has failed to achieve sustained human-centered development. Many of the development plans have failed or been abandoned ...
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For many decades post-colonial leaders in developing countries have tried various development plans based on orthodox development thinking and theorizing. Yet the developing world has failed to achieve sustained human-centered development. Many of the development plans have failed or been abandoned. Why does the developing world run the risk of falling behind their previously attained standards of living? This book takes a detailed look at the key paradigms of orthodox development thinking, discusses the various theories about economic growth, and concludes that the myths of orthodox development thinking regarding the origins of and obstacles to economic growth and human factor decay are the cause of economic underdevelopment in developing countries.
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International Perspectives on the Human Factor in Economic Development

Book by Senyo B-S. K. Adjibolosoo; Praeger Publishers, 1998

Subjects:

Civil Society--Developing Countries, Developing Countries--Social Conditions, Developing Countries--Social Policy, Economic Development--Social Aspects, Human Capital--Developing Countries

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Focusing on the development agenda of selected developed and developing countries, the contributors in this volume show that the varying degrees of success or failure in the programs of different countries are due to the way they deal with human factor development. Each essay clearly shows that a ...
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Focusing on the development agenda of selected developed and developing countries, the contributors in this volume show that the varying degrees of success or failure in the programs of different countries are due to the way they deal with human factor development. Each essay clearly shows that a nation cannot achieve development if it continuously fails to develop its own national human factor. The contributors maintain that what different parts of the world, particularly Southeast Asia, call a "development miracle" is not a miracle, but the result of integrated programs that focus on the development of the human factor.
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Anthropology, Development, and Modernities: Exploring Discourses, Counter-Tendencies, and Violence

Book by Alberto Arce, Norman Long; Routledge, 2000

Subjects:

Applied Anthropology--Developing Countries, Developing Countries--Economic Policy, Developing Countries--Social Policy, Rural Development--Developing Countries, Social Change--Developing Countries, Violence--Developing Countries

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Anthropology, Development and Modernities uses anthropological perspectives to explore the diverse interpretations of modernity and development in today's world. For some people development projects have brought prosperity, optimism and opportunity but for others they have brought poverty, violence ...
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Anthropology, Development and Modernities uses anthropological perspectives to explore the diverse interpretations of modernity and development in today's world. For some people development projects have brought prosperity, optimism and opportunity but for others they have brought poverty, violence and a falling quality of life. This book provides a critical review of the varied interpretations of development and modernity, supported by rigorous case studies from the Netherlands, the former USSR, Tanzania, Sri Lanka and Guatemala. Together, the chapters in this volume demonstrate the crucial importance of looking to ethnography for guidance in shaping development policies.
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Third World Development: A Basic Needs Approach

Book by Pradip K. Ghosh; Greenwood Press, 1984

Subjects:

Basic Needs--Developing Countries, Developing Countries--Economic Policy, Developing Countries--Social Policy

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...Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Developing countries--Economic policy--Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Developing countries--Social policy--Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Ghosh, Pradip K., 147-. II. Series. HC59.7.T448 1984 338.90091724...
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Underdevelopment: A Strategy for Reform

Book by Paolo Sylos Labini; Cambridge University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Africa--Economic Policy, Africa--Social Policy, Developing Countries--Economic Conditions, Developing Countries--Economic Policy, Developing Countries--Social Policy, Economic Development, Institution Building

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The process of globalization, evidenced by environmental change, migration, industrial relations and the extraordinary acceleration of industrial economic relations, has not led to increased convergence in the global economy. Rather, in some cases it has been accompanied by greater divergence ...
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The process of globalization, evidenced by environmental change, migration, industrial relations and the extraordinary acceleration of industrial economic relations, has not led to increased convergence in the global economy. Rather, in some cases it has been accompanied by greater divergence between the fortunes of the world's richest and poorest nations. Professor Sylos Labini offers a new approach to the theory of economic growth and reminds us of the great variety of economic trajectories in developing countries. He further proposes a strategy of institutional reform to respond to the problem of underdevelopment.
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