Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective

Résumé du livre

Contends that western economic history should not be rejected as irrelevant to developing countries, and, in particular, that industrialisation cannot be avoided. Within the context of this premise, looks critically at the theories of underdevelopment proposed by the ILO's World Employment Programme, and the writings of Nyerere, Michael Lipton and E.F. Schumacher which are based on neo-populism (i. e. that development is not dependent upon large-scale industrialisation and urbanisation), and the nationalist dimension of neo-populist thought. Assesses neo-populist development strategies as implemented in Tanzania and China.