Development theory and the three worlds / created by Björn Hettne.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Part 1 Crises in development theory and in the world: crisis of theory and theories of crisis; three worlds of crises; the state - problem or solution? Part 2 Eurocentrism and development thinking: development ideologies in Western history; the rise and decline of development economics; the modernization paradigm. Part 3 The voice of the Third World: academic imperialism and intellectual dependence; the rise of dependencia; the indigenization of development thinking - Latin America in search of otherness, the sociology of civilizations - India and China, the battle for decolonization in Africa. Part 4 The globalization of development theory: from dependance to interdependance; analyzing world development; development stategies and the world system. Part 5 Dimensions of another development: the sociology and politics of anotherness; egalitarian development; self-reliant development; ecodevelopment; ethnodevelopment. Part 6 Transcending the European model: development theory returns to Europe; development options in Western Europe; the rise of market ideology in the East - Soviet development thinking. Part 7 Reorientations in development theory: one field or many?; transcending Eurocentrism and endogenism; three worlds of development.

The result of a theory that arose from an SAREC workshop, this book approaches presents development theory as a set relevant for understanding development problems in different geographical and historical contexts.