Development Theory Critiques and Explorations [Paperback]

By the author of Voting Behaviour in an Indian Village and Reaching Out to the Poor , this book deals with development studies. Topics covered range from Asian development experience and unexplored theoretical explanations to ethno-development.Part 1 Segmented theories of development: the development purists; the development interrelationists; the development integrationists; the development expatriats; some general observations. Part 2 Variety of development experiences: Western development experience and a variety of theoretical explanations; Latin American development experience and region specific theoretical explanations; Asian development experience and unexplored theoretical explanations; some general observations. Part 3 Development process - a grassroots perspective: the development enmesh; planned development under public initiative; commercial and industrial development under private initiative; rural development under cooperative initiative; rural poverty requiring socially concerned human initiative; unequal development opportunities - unequal human responses; some general observations. Part 4 Dimensions of development theory: diversity of development experience; development complex and continuum; the development core; ethnodevelopment; back to the conceptual drawing board.