Development Theory and Practice in a Changing World

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
	Globalisation and development
	Structure of the book
	References
1 The idea of development and modernisation
	The origins of development
	Modernisation theory
	Further reading
	References
2 Early critiques: dependency, world systems and alternative theories of development
	Structuralist economics
	Dependency and world systems theory
	Neo-Marxist theory and imperialism
	The neo-imperial imperative
	Socialist development?
	Case study: African socialism in Tanzania
	Case study: “socialism” and reform in Vietnam
	Further reading
	References
3 The neoliberal revolution in development: participation, power and poverty
	The genesis of neoliberalism
	The theory and roll-out of neoliberalism
	The roll-out of neoliberalism in the Global South
		The international financial institutions
		State power and neoliberalism
	Further reading
	References
4 Impacts of neoliberalism and the revival of modernisation?
	Impacts of neoliberalism
	Post-neoliberalism and the return of modernisation?
	Celebratisation of development: normalising neoliberalism or pragmatic power?
	The SDGs – socialising neoliberalism or global partnership for development?
	Neoliberalism, gender and development
	Further reading
	References
5 The role of the state: “developmental states”, geopolitics, industrialisation and security
	States
	States and development
	Rethinking the state’s role in development: “overdeveloped” and “neoliberal” views
	State failure, violence and underdevelopment
	Developmental and catalytic states
	Globalisation: the rise or retreat of the state in development?
	Geopolitics and developmental states
	What makes a state developmental?
	Developmental states in Africa?
	The development policy challenge of industrialisation
	Industrial systems as assemblage and the role of the state
	Further reading
	References
6 Deconstructing development: post-modernism and decoloniality
	(Post)modernity
	Post-development
		Post-post-development?
	Living post-development? Zapatismo and buen vivir
	Post-colonialism and decoloniality
	Further reading
	References
7 Aid, development and South–South cooperation?
	Dead aid?
	Aid conditionality and common pooling
	Randomised controlled trials
	Microfinance
	South–South cooperation
	BRICS “cooperation” and developmental states in Africa?
		Nature of the BRICS
		Scale and drivers of BRICS engagement
		Impacts of BRICS engagement
		Building BRICS in Africa?
		The future of Africa and the BRICS
	Further reading
	References
8 ICT4D: Information technology for development?
	ICT4D
	ICT connection = development?
	Impacts of mobile phones on livelihoods: a digital provide?
	Development and e-business
	Case study: labour conditions in global factories
	Mobile application (app) development
	E-waste and Internet scamming
	Gender and e-business
	The virtual economy
	The rise of the ‘sharing economy’: virtual capital
	Transformative technologies?
	Further reading
	References
9 “The resource curse”: land, wealth and politics
	Economic channels of the resource curse
	Socio-political channels
	(Geo)political channels
	Matrix governance, ideology and the resource curse
	Materiality, lootability and “resource conflicts”
	Transcending the resource curse?
	Further reading
	References
10 Urbanisation and development: generative cities or slumification?
	What is a city? The urban and development
	Planetary urbanisation
	Neoliberalism and globalisation of cities in the Global South
	“Planning” and prefix urbanism in the Global South: smart, eco and other varieties
	The new urban agenda and generative urbanism?
	Further reading
	References
11 Rural development and climate: crisis and transcendence?
	The climate crisis
	Reducing of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation or carbon colonialism?
	Water scarcity
	Feeding and farming for the future sustainably?
		A green revolution?
		Other approaches to raising small-farmer income: fair trade and land titling
	Further reading
	References
12 Getting to or after development?
	Financing international development and the reconfiguration of global geopolitics
	A post-Western world after development?
	Prospects for industrial development: escaping the matrix?
	The future or end of development?
	References
Index