UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice is at once a history of the ideas and realities of international development, from the classical economists to the recent emphasis on human rights, and a history of the UN's role in shaping and implementing development paradigms over the last...

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The development path -- Historical explanations of backwardness -- Stages of economic growth -- Structural change -- Bangladesh -- Mozambique -- Further reading -- Notes -- 2. Objectives and strategy formulation -- Social and political objectives -- From...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Creating New Paradigms for Development - Stephen McCloskey -- Part I: Development Discourse and Definitions -- 1. Measuring Human Development - Andy Storey -- 2. A Human Rights Based Approach to Development - Máire Braniff...

This volume presents papers from a global gathering of the world’s leading development scholars and practitioners held May 31 - June 2, 2010. Paper themes include: Environmental Commons and the Green Economy, Post-crisis Development Strategy, the Political Economy of Fragile States, Measuring...

"Evaluates development enterprise and development discourse from a critical theory perspective. This view of development policies and control mechanisms employs Colombian case studies of the Programa de Desarrollo Rural Integrado and of the local application of the discourse of women in...