Short description
This publication provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary and up-to-date account of development theory as it has evolved over the past generation.
Long description
This major textbook, reprinted for the fourth time in 2004, is written for students in development studies. It provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary picture of development research over the past generation, and is organised around four major themes: economic development and underdevelopment, politics and the state, socio-economic development and the state and civil society and the development process.