This is the first of two surveys of the World Development Report series. Here we focus on the discursive strategies adopted by the Reports. We begin by setting the Reports within the wider milieu of development theory and practice. Behind the pragmatic, problem-solving image that the Reports aim...

"Over the course of the last half century, the growth economies of Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, have transformed themselves into middle income countries. This book looks at how the very success of these economies has bred new challenges,...