Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Introduction 1
Globalisation and
development 6
Structure of the book
9
References 16
1 The idea of development and modernisation
The origins of development 21
Modernisation theory
23
Further reading 27
References 27
2 Early critiques:
dependency, world systems and alternative theories of
Structuralist economics
29
Dependency and world
systems theory 35
Neo-Marxist theory and
imperialism 35
The neo-imperial
imperative 38
Socialist development?
40
Case study: African
socialism in Tanzania 42
Case study:
“socialism” and reform in Vietnam 44
Further reading 46
References 47
3 The neoliberal
revolution in development: participation, power and poverty
The genesis of
neoliberalism 49
The theory and
roll-out of neoliberalism 51
The roll-out of
neoliberalism in the Global South 54
The international
financial institutions 56
State power and
neoliberalism 58
Further reading 63 References 63
4 Impacts of
neoliberalism and the revival of modernisation?
Impacts of
neoliberalism 69
Post-neoliberalism and
the return of modernisation? 69
Celebratisation of development: normalising neoliberalism or pragmatic power? 75
The SDGs – socialising
neoliberalism or global partnership for development? 77
Neoliberalism, gender
and development 80
Further reading 82
References 82
5 The role of the state:
“developmental states”, geopolitics, industrialisation and
States 87
States and development
88
Rethinking the state’s
role in development: “overdeveloped” and “neoliberal” views 89
State failure,
violence and underdevelopment 90
Developmental and
catalytic states 91
Globalisation: the
rise or retreat of the state in development? 93
Geopolitics and
developmental states 95
What makes a state
developmental? 98
Developmental states
in Africa? 99
The development policy
challenge of industrialisation 101
Industrial systems as
assemblage and the role of the state 103
Further reading 107
References 107
6 Deconstructing
development: post-modernism and decoloniality
(Post)modernity 113
Post-development 115
Post-post-development?
120
Living
post-development? Zapatismo and buen vivir 121
Post-colonialism and
decoloniality 125
Further reading 128
References 128
7 Aid, development and
South–South cooperation?
Dead aid? 131
Aid conditionality and
common pooling 133
Randomised controlled
trials 135
Microfinance 136
South–South
cooperation 138
BRICS “cooperation”
and developmental states in Africa? 140
Nature of the BRICS
140
Scale and drivers of
BRICS engagement 141
Impacts of BRICS
engagement 143
Building BRICS in Africa? 144
The future of Africa and the BRICS 149
Further reading 150
References 150
8 ICT4D: Information
technology for development?
ICT4D 155
ICT connection =
development? 156
Impacts of mobile
phones on livelihoods: a digital provide? 158
Development and
e-business 161
Case study: labour
conditions in global factories 163
Mobile application
(app) development 164
E-waste and Internet
scamming 165
Gender and e-business
166
The virtual economy
167
The rise of the
‘sharing economy’: virtual capital 167
Transformative
technologies? 169
Further reading 170
References 171
9 “The resource
curse”: land, wealth and politics
Economic channels of
the resource curse 175
Socio-political
channels 178
(Geo)political
channels 180
Matrix governance,
ideology and the resource curse 182
Materiality,
lootability and “resource conflicts” 183
Transcending the
resource curse? 184
Further reading 187
References 187
10 Urbanisation and
development: generative cities or slumification?
What is a city? The
urban and development 191
Planetary urbanisation
194
Neoliberalism and
globalisation of cities in the Global South 195
“Planning” and prefix
urbanism in the Global South: smart, eco and other varieties 196
The new urban agenda
and generative urbanism? 200
Further reading 201
References 202
11 Rural development
and climate: crisis and transcendence?
The climate crisis 205
Reducing of emissions
from deforestation and forest degradation or carbon colonialism? 208
Water scarcity 211
Feeding and farming
for the future sustainably? 213
A green revolution?
214
Other approaches to
raising small-farmer income: fair trade and land titling 215
Further reading 216 References 216
12 Getting to or after
development?
Financing
international development and the reconfiguration of global geopolitics 222
A post-Western world
after development? 223
Prospects for
industrial development: escaping the matrix? 224
The future or end of
development? 227
References 230
| Author | Article | Subject | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Padraig Carmody | Economic development and growth, Economy, Globalization - Economic aspects, Development countries - Economic policy |
