Recent reflections on development policy have tried to eliminate the weak points in the economically oriented development theories which have dominated development planning up to now, and the traditional modernisation theories complementary to them. The propagation of strategies geared towards...

The authors from the Ethnological Seminar at the University of Zurich try to develop a model for measuring the level of socio-cultural development that is as objective as possible, as a contribution to operationalising the BMZ framework concept for development policy planning. The attempt to...