Development In Theory And Practice: Bridging The Gap - Hardcover

Black, Jan Knippers

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813311241 ISBN 13: 9780813311241

Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

As the literature on development has proliferated, communication among those who approach development from different perspectives, disciplines and professions has become more strained. In this text, Jan Black argues that what is missing is "appropriate theory". In the first section she presents the differing and even contradictory definitions of development and the various explanatory models and means of measurement associated with them. This is followed by an analysis of the evolution of the First World and Third World with a focus on ecology, refugees, debt, the informal sector and gender roles. The final section addresses the process of development and illustrates, through a number of vignettes and case studies, the sometimes illusory links between motives and consequences.

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About the Author

Jan Knippers Black is a professor in the Graduate School of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in California. She has authored or edited and co-authored a dozen books, including Development in Theory and Practice: Paradigms and Paradoxes, Second Edition (Westview Press, 1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813311241
• ISBN 13: 9780813311241
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224