Klappentext: "Following the 2007-2009 financial and economic crises, there has been an unprecedented demand among economics students for an alternative approach, which offers a historical, institutional and multidisciplinary treatment of the discipline. Economic development lends itself ideally...

Section 1: Macro Context Developmentalism and neo-liberalism 1. South Asia Overview 2. India⁰́₉s Economic Success Section 2: Meso Context Poverty alleviation: State and Civil Society Partnerships 3. Participatory Development in Pakistan4. Human Development in Sri Lanka 5. Employment...

New Institutional Economics and economic development -- Nations, conceptual framework and method -- Ethnicity and development -- Independence, ethnicity and development: case studies -- Forging national cohesion in constructed nations -- Summary and conclusion.