Development: Identities, representations, alternatives
- ISBN-10
- 0415207959
- ISBN-13
- 9780415207959
- Series
- Development
- Category
- Developing countries
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Author
- Stuart Corbridge
Description
Brings together more than one hundred articles dealing with the discipline of development in all its diversity. Key topics include the transformation of peasant economies, argibusiness, rural-urban relations, markets, industrialization, workers, trade, aid and structural adjustment. A unique set in its comprehensiveness and diversity, it also considers four key challenges for development theory and practice relating to capabilities, ethics, sustainability and regulation.
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