Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking

by Jolly, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780230368330
• ISBN10: 0230368336
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-19
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The first volume of IDS Companions to Development Studies focuses on pivotal writing emerging from the IDS fellowship during the last 50 years. It includes five topics: perspectives and paradigms, debunking myths, development policy, gender and international perspectives, and policy, as well as names like Seers, Singer, Lipton, Reg Green.

Author Biography

Sir Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, where he was Director from 1972-81. After this, he was an Assistant Secretary General of the UN until 2000, first as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF until 1995, and in UNDP from 1995-2000 as Principal Coordinator of UNDP's Human Development Report, From 2000-10 he was co-Director of the UN Intellectual History Project and co-author of the final summary volume, UN Ideas that Changed the World. He has been a trustee of OXFAM, a Council member of ODI and President of the UN Association of the United Kingdom. He was knighted by the Queen in 2001 in recognition of his contributions to international development.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Foreword	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Perspectives and Paradigms
The Limitations of the Special Case	p. 3
The Late Development Effect	p. 20
Are Development Studies Relevant to British Problems?: M.Phil. Faculty and Students (1977)	p. 28
The Congruence of Marxism and Other Neo-Classical Doctrines	p. 43
Development Theory and the Experience of Development: Issues for the Future	p. 57
Debunking Myths
Economic Growth: What Are We Trying to Measure?	p. 73
Beware of Debt Speak	p. 90
Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?	p. 101
Development Policy
Employment, Incomes and Equality: Lessons of the ILO Employment Strategy Mission to Kenya	p. 121
Redistribution with Growth: The Economic Framework	p. 135
Why the Poor Stay Poor	p. 148
Rapid Rural Appraisal: Rationale and Repertoire	p. 160
Adjustment with a Human Face	p. 172
Towards a Flexible State	p. 186
Education and the Market: Which Parts of the Neo-Liberal Solution Are Correct?	p. 202
Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management	p. 218
Gender
The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process	p. 237
Neo-Liberalism, Gender and the Limits of the Market	p. 243
International Perspectives and Policy
The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries	p. 265
Towards a Rational and Equitable New International Economic Order: A Case for Negotiated Structural Changes	p. 278
Index	p. 296
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