©1996 Project Management Institute, 130 South State Road, Upper Darby, PA 19082 USA
Exchanging ideas about using ICT for development, especially in Africa.
Posts
References: Narasaiah, M. L. (2004). Information Technology and Development. First Edition. Discovery Publishing House. New Delhi. ISBN: 81-7141-760-4 Development Theory. Wikipedia What is Development? The World Bank. Reviving Critical Modernism in Development Studies . 7 September 2016 Richard Heeks Reviving Critical Modernism in Development Studies 7 September 2016 Richard Heeks Leave a comment Go to comments Critical modernism forms a very small, rather dated trickle of ideas within development studies. How could it be updated to serve as a lens for current research? Critical modernism can be understood as a wide sweep of ideas, particularly encompassing thinkers such as Habermas and Gramsci [1] . But it has only a small explicit footprint within development studies largely triggered by a chapter in Peet & Hartwick’s book Theories of Development , published in 1999 [2] . Itself developed from earlier work, this was particularly...
EXCERPTED FROM Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third W orld THIRD EDITION John Rapley Copyright © 2007 ISBN: 978-1-58826-538-8 pb 1800 30th Street, Ste. 314 Boulde r , CO 80301 USA telephone 303.444.6684 fax 303.444.0824 This excerpt was downloaded from the L ynne Rienner Publishers website ww w .rienne r .com Contents 1 Th e Progres s o f Development 1 2 Developmen t Theor y i n th e Postwa r Period 13 3 State-Le d Developmen t i n Practice 35 4 Th e Neoclassica l Answe r t o Failure 63 5 Neoclassica l Refor m i n Practice 87 6 Developmen t Theor y i n th e W ak e o f Structura l Adjustment 135 7 Th e En d ...