Challenging global inequality : development theory and practice in the 21st century /: development theory and practice in the 21st century. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alastair Greig, David Hulme, and Mark Turner.
• Other Names: Greig, Alastair, 1960-; Hulme, David; Turner, Mark, 1949-
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; List of Boxes; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the Story so Far & Arguing about Inequality; An Overview of Global Inequality; Inequalities across nations; Inequalities within countries; Inequalities across the world's people; The Paradox of Modernity: the Polarization of Opulence and Deprivation; Debating Development in the Twenty-first Century; 2 The Nature of Inequality and Poverty; The Nature of Inequality; The Nature of Poverty; The Conceptualization of Poverty in Development Theory and Policy. Poverty and Inequality: What are the Interactions?Individualistic approaches; Structuralist perspectives; 3 Measuring Development; Developmental Statistics; Economy; Society; Composite measures of development; Units of Analysis; The nation-state as a unit of analysis; The problem with a collective identity; The value of a collective identity; The Language of Development; 4 The Roots of the Development Project; Progress and Modernity; Colonialism and Inequality; The Setting for Development Practice after 1945; 5 The Postwar Development Project; Modernization and Equality through Catch-up. Critiques of modernization theoryCombined and Unequal Development; Imperialism and development; Dependency and world-systems analysis; Critiques of dependency theory and world-systems analysis; 6 The Framework of Early 21st-Century Development; Neoliberalism and Market-oriented Development; The American Century; The Financial Architecture of Neoliberal Development; International financial institutions: the IMF and the World Bank; The WTO; 7 The Millennium Development Challenge; Setting Development Goals for a New Millennium; The MDG Challenges; Improving well-being; Regional perspectives. Assessing the MDGs as a Developmental StrategyThe MDGs and neoliberalism; The MDGs and modernization theory; The MDGs and dependency theory; 8 Globalization and Inequality; The Components of Globalization; Global Visions; Globalization and the State; Mapping Globalization; 9 Modernity, Development and their Discontents; Environmental Challenges; The environment and modernity; The environment and neoliberalism; The environment and globalization; Feminist Challenges; Ecofeminism; Modernization and the invisible women; Women and globalization; Postdevelopmental Challenges. Gender and postdevelopmentPostdevelopment and postmodernism; Critiques of postdevelopment; The Globalization of New Social Movements; 10 Development, Politics and Participation; Democratization: Power to the People; Decentralization: Rolling Down the State; Participation: the New Orthodoxy; 11 Conclusion: the Ends of Development and the End of Inequality; Competing Definitions of Development; Has Development Failed?; The case for development; The case against development; A Summary of Developmental Visions; Development as growth and abundance; Development as sustainability.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.9; Economic Conditions; Income distribution; Economic development; Income distribution; Equality; Développement économique et social; Théorie du développement; Pauvreté; Décennies internationales du développement; Organisations internationales; Mondialisation; Economic development; Equality; Income distribution; Economische ongelijkheid; Economische ontwikkeling; Theorieën; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780230208407; 0230208401
• Related ISBNs: 9781403948236; 1403948232; 9781403948243; 1403948240
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