The History of Development
By - Gilbert Rist
Floor
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Floor 1
Published
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Zed Books, London, 2002
ISBN 10 - 1842771817
ISBN 13 - 9781842771815
Book Status
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1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Economic development.
Shelf No
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17
Call Number
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338.9 RIS 2002
Call no: 338.9 RIS 2002
Edition: new Edi.
With all its hopes of a more just and materially prosperous world, development has fascinated societies in both North and South. Looking at this collective fancy in retrospect, Gilbert Rist shows the underlying similarities of its various theories and strategies, and their shared inability to transform the world. He argues persuasively that development has always been a kind of collective delusion which in reality has simply promoted a widening of market relations despite the good intentions of its advocates.