Poverty and development in the 1990s / edited by Tim Allen and Alan Thomas for an Open University course team.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press in association with the Open University, 1992.Description: 421 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0198773307
- 0198773315 (pbk.)
- 338.9/009172/4 23
- HC59.72.P6 P67 1992
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 1
A WORLD OF PROBLEMS?
1. Understanding Famine and Hanger 15
2. Diseases of Poverty 34
3. Unemployment and making a Living 55
4. Is the World Overpopulated? 78
5. Environmental Degradation and Sustainability 97
6. Development, Capitalism and the Nation State 116
THE MAKING OF THE THIRD WORLD
7. A Third World in the making: Diversity in Pre-Capitalist Societiesm145
8. Capitalism and expansion of Europe 168
9. Labour Regimes and Social Change Under Colonialism 185
10. Colonial Rule 204
11. Developing Countries: 1945 to 1990 221
12. Socialist Models of Development 238
UNDERSTANDING DEVELOPMENT IN THE 1990S
13. The Third World in the New global Order 255
14. The Democratization of Third World States 273
15. Gander Matters in Development 291
16. Technology in Development 313
17. Taking Culture Seriously 331
18. Ethnicity and Class: the case of the East Africa ‘Asians’ 347
19. The Politics of Cultural Expression: African Musics and the World Market 362
20. Prospects and Dilemma for Industrializing Nations 379
References 391
Acknowledgements 400
List of Acronyms, abbreviations and Organizations 403
Index 405
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-399) and index.
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