Development Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Programmes and Prognoses....Pages 3-34
Values, Facts and the Compensation Principle....Pages 35-51
The Meaning and Purpose of Interdisciplinary Studies....Pages 52-61
The Limits of Development Research....Pages 62-99
Development Ideas in Historical Perspective....Pages 100-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
How have the Poor Fared?....Pages 135-139
Alternatives in Development....Pages 140-147
New Strategies for Development: Poverty, Income Distribution, and Growth....Pages 148-174
The Dynamics of the New Poor Power....Pages 175-192
Self-Reliant Industrialization....Pages 193-212
World Trade in Agricultural Commodities and the Terms of Trade with Industrial Goods....Pages 213-231
It is a Moral Issue....Pages 232-236
The New International Economic Order....Pages 237-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
The Multi-National Enterprise and the Theory of Development Policy....Pages 267-297
Bargaining with Multi-Nationals....Pages 298-302
Policies towards Multi-Nationals....Pages 303-310
Multi-Nationals Revisited....Pages 311-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
From Growth to Basic Needs....Pages 323-333
The Distinctive Features of a Basic-Needs Approach to Development....Pages 334-365
Human Rights and Basic Needs....Pages 366-373
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
The Search for a Basic-Needs Yardstick....Pages 374-397
Trans-National Corporations and Basic Needs....Pages 398-404
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
Taxation and Enterprise....Pages 407-417
Gunnar Myrdal....Pages 418-431
Back Matter....Pages 433-449