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Development in Asia - Interdisciplinary, Post-neoliberal, and Transnational Perspectives (Paperback, New)
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Development in Asia - Interdisciplinary, Post-neoliberal, and Transnational Perspectives (Paperback, New)
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"Development" is one of the most ubiquitous yet least understood
concepts of our age. It is something all governments claim to be
engaged in and is considered desirable by scholars, activists,
policymakers, and laypeople alike. Yet it is also a highly
contested term. For some, development is simply a matter of
economic growth. Others maintain that it must entail improving life
expectancy, literacy, education levels, and access to resources.
Others yet, disillusioned by the results of development
initiatives, have rejected development altogether, equating it with
a self-serving aid industry that entraps the poor in a vicious
cycle of dependency. Still, critics argue these "post-development"
theorists merely replicate earlier doctrines of development and
have themselves become part of the problem they wish to transcend.
This book, a collection of works by scholars of development,
examines the theory and practice of development and its
implications and varied meanings in Asian contexts. It attempts to
understand development both in its objective and constructivist
senses. That is, it examines how societies and nations have
developed over time and how leaders, experts and governments have
attempted to shape these same societies and nations. It also
analyzes development in civil society and how non-state actors have
conceived, participated in and been affected by the process. Has
true development been occurring in Asia? Is it possible to direct
development? How are real people affected by development? Should
the concept of development be retained or discarded? These are a
few key questions covered in this book.
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