On January 20, 1949 US President Harry S. Truman officially opened the era of development. On that day, over one half of the people of the world were defined as ‘underdeveloped’ and they have stayed that way ever since. This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and shows how poorly we understand these two terms. It offers a new vision for development, demystifying the statistics that international organizations use to measure development and introducing th...
Table of Content
The Birth of Development and Underdevelopment;
Development Statistics and What They Tell Us;
Buen Vivir: An Alternative to the Cult of Growth;
There is Enough fo...
About the author
Salvatore Babones is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than two dozen academic resea...
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