Development In Theory And Practice

A text which highlights key issues in the development debate of the 1990s, including ecology, refugees, debt, the informal sector, and gender roles. The final section addresses the process of development and illustrates the sometimes illusory links between motives and consequences.

Jan Knippers Black

* Introduction: In Pursuit of Appropriate Theory Development In Theory: Meanings And Models * Defining Development and Its Nemesis * Explaining Development: Theories and Models * Measurements and Findings Development In Practice: Actors and Strategies * Donor Strategies and Programs * Third World Strategies * Political Counterparts and Consequences Development in Focus: Contemporary Issues and Themes * Development and the Gender Gap * The Fragile Economy of Mother Earth * Food Insecurity: Cocaine and Other Cash Crops * The Homeless, the Stateless, and the Indigenous * Macrodebt and Microcredit The Process and the Protagonists: Paradoxes of Development * The Process: Games Developers Play * The Protagonists: Donors, Clients, and Field Agents * On Motives and Consequences * Conclusion: Leaning on the Limits