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The concise, critical guide to key concepts in development studies.

This history of the concept of development examines the theories and strategies which have held sway during the last 50 years. Given that levels of poverty and environmental degradation continue to grow in many countries North and South, it asks why the project has been continued for so long.

The message of this courageous book is that the benefits of development, so long promised over the past sixty years, have not come about for most people. Nor are they going to.

A genealogy of development looking at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions and exploring changes in development discourses.

A genealogy of development looking at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions and exploring changes in development discourses.

Reviews the key concepts of the development discourse. This book contains essays each of which examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view and highlights its particular bias.