Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 291 pp. Contents; 1. Concept of the World View in Comparative Politico-Economic Perspective -- 2. Critical Examination of Development Paradigms -- 3. Political Economy of Development -- 4. Some Major Conceptual Issues in Development -- 5. Critical Examination of Some World Development Reports -- 5.1. South Commission Report: The Challenge to the South -- 5.2. critical examination of the proposals made by the South Commission Report -- 5.3. Summary of South Commission recommendations for the South -- 5.4. Problems and prospects of development in the South in the perspective of Global Economic Outlook 2000 -- 5.5. World Development Report 1989, 1990, 1991: World Bank outlook on the state of the global economy -- 5.6. Critical review of Global Economic Outlook 2000 -- 5.7. UNDP: Human Development Report 1990, 1991 -- 5.8. Common themes amongst the Reports -- 5.9. ethico-economic alternative to UNDP-UN perspectives -- 5.10. Significant microeconomic interrelationships in ethical structuring in South development -- 5.11. Population as the focus of issues in equality, poverty, entitlement, and justice in the framework of development. 6. Conclusion -- 6.1. Anomie in development theorizing -- 6.2. central issue of simultaneity between distributive equity and economic efficiency in development perspective: the ethico-economic world view -- 6.3. Loss of uniqueness of objective and perceptions in mainstream development theories -- 6.4. Mainstream economic features of alternative ethical approaches to development -- 6.5. Ethics-centred development emphasized in development reports -- 6.6. ultimate need for a scientific and methodological study of ethics in development. Technical Appendix: A Mathematical Formulation of the Knowledge-based World View Model of Development. Subjects; Economic development. Economics Growth. 1 Kg.

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Title: Comparative Development Studies : In Search of the World View / Masudul Alam Choudhury
Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0333583094
ISBN 13: 9780333583098
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st edition.
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Weight: 1 kilogram

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