Introduction: the charity trap -- Business first: the roots of prosperity in the modern world -- Business last: the roots of failure in poverty aid -- Strong medicine: the Marshall plan as a business model -- Chase the devil: details for a Marshall model -- Conclusion: make it your business

Para-sites of capitalism -- Can the mosquito speak? -- Principles true in every country -- The character of calculability -- Peasant studies -- The invention and reinvention of the peasant -- Nobody listens to a poor man -- Heritage and violence -- Fixing the economy -- The object of development...

The book examines the methodological challenges in analyzing the effectiveness of development policies. It presents a selection of tools and methodologies that can help tackle the complexities of which policies work best and why, and how they can be implemented effectively given the political...

Machine generated contents note: PART I DEVELOPMENT POLICY -- 2 The history of development policy 15 -- Richard Jolly -- Section A Economic Policy -- 3 Globalization and development policy 25 -- S. Mansoob Murshed -- 4 Economic planning: theory, practice and experiences 32 -- Anis Chowdhury -- 5...

This book presents a critical view of economic development in the last 50 years and evaluates different approaches taken that led to success or failure. It covers development policies, methods, procedures, as well as development project selection and how the one-size-fits-all approach taken by...