Comparative National Development: Society and Economy in the New Global OrderA. Douglas Kincaid, Alejandro Portes UNC Press Books, 1994 - 245 pages What does it mean to speak of 'national development' in the 1990s? As a result of the tumultuous changes in global economic and political structures, scholars and policymakers specializing in the study of national development must reassess the interpretiv |
Contents
Critical Challenges and Empirical Trends | 1 |
Insights from East Asia and Latin America | 26 |
Technological Change and Socioeconomic Restructuring in Latin America | 57 |
A Comparative Political Economy Perspective on the Third World State | 84 |
Regional Development Theory and the Subordination of Extractive Peripheries | 112 |
Gender and the Study of International Development | 143 |
Path Dependence and Privatization Strategies in East Central Europe | 169 |
Urbanization Development and the Household | 199 |
Contributors | 237 |
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