Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking

Part I. Perspectives and Paradigms

1. The Limitations of the Special Case
Dudley Seers

2. The Late Development Effect
Ronald Dore

3. Are Development Studies Relevant to British Problems?
M. Phil. Faculty, Students

4. The Congruence of Marxism and Other Neo-Classical Doctrines
Dudley Seers

5. Development Theory and the Experience of Development: Issues for the Future
John Toye

Part II. Debunking Myths

6. Economic Growth: What Are We Trying to Measure?
Dudley Seers

7. Beware of Debt Speak
Mike Faber

8. Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?
Robert Chambers

Part III. Development Policy

9. Employment, Incomes and Equality: Lessons of the ILO Employment Strategy Mission to Kenya
Hans W. Singer, Richard Jolly

10. Redistribution with Growth: The Economic Framework
Montek S. Ahluwalia, Hollis Chenery

11. Why the Poor Stay Poor
Michael Lipton

12. Rapid Rural Appraisal: Rationale and Repertoire
Robert Chambers

13. Adjustment with a Human Face
Richard Jolly

14. Towards a Flexible State
Robin Murray

15. Education and the Market: Which Parts of the Neo-Liberal Solution Are Correct?
Christopher Colclough

16. Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Melissa Leach, Robin Mearns, Ian Scoones

Part IV. Gender

17. The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process
Kate Young

18. Neo-Liberalism, Gender and the Limits of the Market
Naila Kabeer, John Humphrey

Part V. International Perspectives and Policy

19. The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries
Hans W. Singer

20. Towards a Rational and Equitable New International Economic Order: A Case for Negotiated Structural Changes
Reginald H. Green, Hans W. Singer

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Development Theory, Development Policy, Development Studies, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Development Economics