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The End of Development?. Modernity, Post-modernity and Development.
Trevor Parfitt
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Paperback. Outlines a radical new approach to development studies in the light of the policies imposed by the IMF and World Bank Series: Third World in Global Politics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: GTF; JFC; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 386.
Over the past fifteen years, ideas in the field of development studies have been highly contested. During this time, most countries from the South have come under the iron heel of the IMF and World Bank, who have imposed structural adjustment programmes wherever they have provided loan capital to governments. However, these programmes have had little success, and development studies has suffered accordingly.
Many development theorists turned to postmodernist theory to try to move on from this impasse, which in the 1990s led to a new line of critical thought that heralded 'the end of development'. ... Read more
Over the past fifteen years, ideas in the field of development studies have been highly contested. During this time, most countries from the South have come under the iron heel of the IMF and World Bank, who have imposed structural adjustment programmes wherever they have provided loan capital to governments. However, these programmes have had little success, and development studies has suffered accordingly.
Many development theorists turned to postmodernist theory to try to move on from this impasse, which in the 1990s led to a new line of critical thought that heralded 'the end of development'. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Series
Third World in Global Politics
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745316376
SKU
V9780745316376
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About Trevor Parfitt
Trevor Parfitt is Professor of International Development in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He has held numerous consultancies in UN and NGO bodies. He is the author of The End of Development?: Modernity, Post-Modernity and Development (Pluto, 2002).
Reviews for The End of Development?. Modernity, Post-modernity and Development.
'An excellent tour of contemporary theory. For theorists, it illuminates and encourages the making of hard decisions'
Ricardo Blaug, University of Leeds 'Consistently thoughtful and quietly persuasive'
Tony Payne, University of Sheffield
Ricardo Blaug, University of Leeds 'Consistently thoughtful and quietly persuasive'
Tony Payne, University of Sheffield