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Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

xiv, 296 s. ; 23 cm

ISBN 978-1-4039-4824-3 (brož.)

Obsahuje bibliografii s. 259-289, rejstřík

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cronyms and Abbreviations viii // List of Boxes x // Preface and Acknowledgements xii // 1 Introduction: the Story so Far ... 1 // Arguing about Inequality 1 // An Overview of Global Inequality 2 // Inequalities across nations 2 // Inequalities within countries 3 // Inequalities across the world’s people 4 // The Paradox of Modernity: the Polarization of Opulence // and Deprivation 4 // Debating Development in the Twenty-first Century // 2 The Nature of Inequality and Poverty 10 // The Nature of Inequality 11 // The Nature of Poverty 15 // The Conceptualization of Poverty in Development Theory // and Policy 20 // Poverty and Inequality: What are the Interactions? 23 // Individualistic approaches 24 // Structuralist perspectives 25 // 3 Measuring Development 30 // Developmental Statistics 30 // Economy 31 // Society 35 // Composite measures of development 37 // Units of Analysis 39 // The nation-state as a unit of analysis 39 // The problem with a collective identity 43 // The value of a collective identity 45 // The Language of Development 48 // 4 The Roots of the Development Project 53 // Progress and Modernity 53 // Colonialism and Inequality 59 // The Setting for Development Practice after 1945 66 // 5 The Postwar Development Project 73 // Modernization and Equality through Catch-up 73 // Critiques of modernization theory 79 // Combined and Unequal Development 83 // Imperialism and development 83 // Dependency and world-systems analysis 87 // Critiques of dependency theory and world-systems analysis 92 // 6 The Framework of Early 21st-Century Development 100 // Neoliberalism and Market-oriented Development 102 // The American Century 107 // The Financial Architecture of Neoliberal Development 116 // International financial institutions: the IMF and the // World Bank 116 // The WTO 123 // 7 The Millennium Development Challenge 129 //

Setting Development Goals for a New Millennium 129 // The MDG Challenges 138 // Improving well-being 138 // Regional perspectives 144 // Assessing the MDGs as a Developmental Strategy 150 // The MDGs and neoliberalism 153 // The MDGs and modernization theory 156 // The MDGs and dependency theory 158 // 8 Globalization and Inequality 162 // The Components of Globalization 162 // Global Visions 167 // Globalization and the State 173 // Mapping Globalization 179 // 9 Modernity, Development and their Discontents 186 // Environmental Challenges 187 // The environment and modernity 187 // The environment and neoliberalism 188 // The environment and globalization 192 // Feminist Challenges 194 // Ecofeminism 195 // Modernization and the invisible women 197 // Women and globalization 201 // Postdevelopmental Challenges 203 // Gender and postdevelopment 204 // Postdevelopment and postmodernism 206 // Critiques of postdevelopment 209 // The Globalization of New Social Movements 211 // 10 Development, olitics and Participation 218 // Democratization: Power to the People 218 // Decentralization: Rolling Down the State 229 // Participation: the New Orthodoxy 233 // 11 Conclusion: the Ends of Development and the End of // Inequality 240 // Competing Definitions of Development 240 // Has Development Failed? ? 241 // The case for development 241 // The case against development 244 // A Summary of Developmental Visions 247 // Development as growth and abundance 247 // Development as sustainability 249 // Development as security 250 // Development as illusion 252 // Development as lodestar 253 // Development as freedom 254 // Development and the End of Inequality 256 // References // Index 289