This paper reviews the policy debate on development issues and examines the economic prospects for developing countries at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is specifically concerned with the question of whether developing countries will be able to meet the employment and poverty...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- ONE Narratives of the Nation: Modernizing the Global South in the Space of Development -- TWO Mapping Modernization and Growth -- THREE Coloniality, Modernity, and the Nation-State in Dependency Theory -- FOUR Structural Adjustment and Its...