Instruments and idioms of colonial and national development: India's historical experience in comparative perspective / Sugata Bose -- Modernizing bureaucrats, backward Africans, and the development concept / Frederick Cooper -- Visions of postwar health and development and their impact on...

Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies. Through its accessible and...

Thinking on development informs and inspires the actions of people, organizations, and states in their continuous effort to invent a better world. This volume examines the ideas behind development: their origins, how they have changed and spread over time, and how they may evolve over the coming...