The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a new and coherent way of thinking about diverse facets of development. Implicit in the framework of the SDGs is that the goals are interconnected and interdependent. To translate such critical ideas into reality, countries need new skills,...

This paper consists of two parts, which are conceptually only loosely interconnected. Proceeding from an impressionistic comparison of Bhutanese development in the late 1950s and in the late 1990s, Part I of this essay explores the missing link, the question of why development has taken the...

The aim of this article is to suggest that economic planning concepts and tools currently exist which might be of practical interest to those individuals working within the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) who are responsible for interpreting and applying in practice the concept of Gross...

Die vielbeschworene Krise Afrikas ist vor allem eine Krise der globalen entwicklungspolitischen Konzepte verschiedenster Couleur - von der Dependenztheorie bis zur Modernisierungstheorie und neoliberalen Orthodoxie. Die Diskussion über die Entwicklungsprobleme Afrikas wird auf einem abstrakten...