Development Perspectives for the 1990s - Hardcover

Singer, H.W.; Prendergast, Renee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0333545664 ISBN 13: 9780333545669

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1991

Synopsis

The most pressing problem for most developing countries is how to reverse the adverse trends of the 1980s and create the conditions for sustainable development. The need for an adaptive evolutionary approach to problems of development is, perhaps, the central theme to the volume.

About this title

Synopsis

The contributors to this volume bring a variety of experience, background and interest to bear on this issue and considerable attention is given to the design of appropriate structural adjustment programmes as well as the role of debt reduction, food aid and the European Community in this context. Other important issues discussed include: the link between dependent development and enviornmental degredation, the woodfuel crisis, the political economy of rural development, the transfer of institutional innovations; the role of women's organizations in development and foreign direct investment by newly industrialized countries. An important overall theme which emerges from this book is that there is a need for an adaptive evolutionary approach to problems of development. The Development Studies Association (DSA) was set up in 1977 to promote the advancement of knowledge of international development issues and to facilitate communication and cooperation in this field. This volume contains a selection of papers from its annual conference held in Belfast in September 1989.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333545664
• ISBN 13: 9780333545669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 349