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Alternative development has been concerned with alternative practices of development—participatory and people‐centred—and with redefining the goals of development. Mainstream development has gradually been moving away from the preoccupation with economic growth toward a people‐centred definition of development, for instance in human development. This raises the question in what way alternative development remains distinguishable from mainstream development—as a roving criticism, a development style, a profile of alternative positions regarding development agency, methodology, epistemology? Increasingly the claim is that alternative development represents an alternative paradigm. This is a problematic idea for four reasons: because whether paradigms apply to social science is questionable; because in development the concern is with policy frameworks rather than explanatory frameworks; because there are different views on whether a paradigm break with conventional development is desirable; and finally because the actual divergence in approaches to development is in some respects narrowing. There is a meaningful alternative development profile or package but there is no alternative development paradigm—nor should there be. Mainstream development is not what it used to be and it may be argued that the key question is rather whether growth and production are considered within or outside the people‐centred development approach and whether this can rhyme with the structural adjustment programmes followed by the international financial institutions. Post‐development may be interpreted as a neo‐traditionalist reaction against modernity. More enabling as a perspective is reflexive development, in which a critique of science is viewed as part of development politics.

Intro -- GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT: COUNTRY EXPERIENCES -- GLOBALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT: COUNTRY EXPERIENCES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- Chapter 1 GLOBALISATION AND DEVELOPMENT: AN OVERVIEW OF RELEVANT ISSUES -- INTRODUCTION -- GLOBALISATION AND TRADE IN GOODS -- How Did this Situation Come About? -- Instruments Deployed -- 1. Most Favoured Nations (MFN) Agreement -- 2. FDI Inflow to China -- 3. Domestic Production and Trade Policy Reforms in China -- WTO MEMBERSHIP, EXCHANGE RATE AND DOMESTIC SAVINGS -- Exchange Rate -- Domestic Saving and Consumption Repression -- Rural-Urban Divide and Income Distribution: Meeting Their Basic Needs -- OTHER DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- OTHER CONSEQUENCES -- STRUCTURAL REFORM, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT -- BREAK DOWN OF THE NATION STATE -- APPROPRIATE INSTITUTIONS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- MAIN ISSUES TO BE DISCUSSED -- Trade, Industrialisation and Development -- Food Supply -- Development and Environment -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS FOR CORRECTING INFRASTRUCTURE BOTTLENECK IN INDIA -- INTRODUCTION -- ROAD-RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT -- COORDINATION OF ROAD AND RAIL -- INFRASTRUCTURE BOTTLENECKS -- FIVE YEAR PLANS AND ROAD-RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE -- PPP POLICY FOR ROAD-RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 GLOBALISATION AND THE EMERGENCE OF INDIA'S KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY -- INTRODUCTION -- KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH -- KNOWLEDGE, GLOBALISATION AND GROWTH -- ICT GROWTH UNDER GLOBALISATION -- THE EMERGING KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY OF INDIA -- ROLE, GROWTH AND PERFORMANCE OF ICT SECTORS IN INDIA -- (a) The Share of IT Industry in India's GDP -- (b) Share of IT in Domestic and Export Markets.