Titlebook: Challenging the Orthodoxies; Richard M. Auty (Senior Lecturer),John Toye (Direc Book 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publ

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Is the Idea of Development Eurocentric?with which all the authors attack the core concept of development, and also, given their attitude, for its being called a dictionary! ‘The idea of development stands like a ruin in the intellectual landscape’, says Sachs in the Introduction (Sachs 1992). In the name of development the rest of the wo

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Life Chances, Lifeworlds and a Rural Futureises important questions about rational behaviour. The assumption of rationality in actors’ behaviour may be a hidden orthodoxy in much development discourse. For example, in the past decade there has been a resurgence in belief in the market; participatory procedures and bottom-up approaches are ad

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Green, Brown and Red Issues in a Black Economy: Thoughts on Sustainable Development in Low-income Comate place at the table in development studies. The questions it raises, and the techniques it incorporates, have challenged all students of development. This is so despite the fact that the empirical relevance of some key concepts is untried, and the concept of sustainable development remains more

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Rural Development Models in China and Taiwan Revisitedtion of the Red Flag Canal), Dazhai and Daquizhuang. Each at different times has acted as a model for rural development and played a key role in the evolution of rural development policy, and its various changes in direction. In Taiwan, the visit was to Hsi-lo township which is the location of the Y

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Conservation or Development in the Terai? The Political Ecology of Natural Resources in Nepalronmental conservation. These trade-offs may be particularly acute in low income countries experiencing high rates of growth in human population. This is the case in Nepal, and this chapter examines the situation of the tall grasslands in the southern Terai region which comprise a rare habitat, home

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Private Markets for Wastes: The Case of Calcutta out between November 1991 and January 1994.. Wastes, for the purposes of this chapter, are defined as something which the current owner does not want. But almost everything that is thrown away, especially by affluent households, is useful to somebody, particularly in developing countries. Wastes ar

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Book 1996nvironmentalists, political scientists, institutionalists, sociologists and a philosopher. The papers span a range of viewpoints which includes sympathetic modifications to the consensus as well as strong rejections of it.