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"Teaching Global Development Studies" published on by Oxford University Press.

Defines the economic dimension of discourse around controversial issues in international development accessible to 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students working towards degrees in development studies. This book outlines the connections between development economics and development studies. It also deals with the nature of development economics

Development studies textbooks and courses have sometimes tended to avoid significant economic content. However, without an understanding of the economic aspects of international development many of the more complex issues cannot be fully comprehended. Economics and Development Studies makes the economic dimension of discourse around controversial issues in international development accessible to second and third year undergraduate students working towards degrees in development studies. Following an introductory chapter outlining the connections between development economics and development studies, this book consists of eight substantive chapters dealing with the nature of development economics, economic growth and structural change, economic growth and developing countries, economic growth and economic development since 1960, the global economy and the Third World, developing countries and international trade, economics and development policy, and poverty, equality and development economists, with a tenth concluding chapter. This book synthesizes existing development economics literature in order to identify the salient issues and controversies and make them accessible and understandable. The concern is to distinguish differences within the economics profession, and between economists and non-economists, so that the reader can make informed judgments about the sources of these differences, and about their impact on policy analysis and policy advice. The book features explanatory text boxes, tables and diagrams, suggestions for further reading, and a listing of the economic concepts used in the chapters.

The fact that globalization & development are two sides of the same coin-although fraught with ideological baggage-is found to reproduce ideological separatism & to obscure historical interrelations in the dichotomous debates of state centered versus transnational analysis, making the debate less political & more an epistemological issue in which the terms development, globalization, capital, & the state are terms whose meanings & discursive functions change across time and space. The author traces the moments in recent history of the development/globalization relationship to the ambiguity of sovereignty. The author locates the global origins of development in the 19th century improvement of mankind, & the post WWII world order as a construct of power relations using "development" as an enabling & legitimizing discourse. The ideological function of developments was revealed during the 1960's to the 1990's & the institution of globalization as a class political project in the New International Economic Order (NIEO) to the WTO. The legitimacy crisis of development & globalization is traced to incomplete state management of economic integration, the unrealizable ideal, & the imperialism of the "open world" rhetoric. The original formula of the development project of the "development brings democracy" is concluded to be in reverse in a unipolar world that is imposed by force is the condition for development that an evenly distributes spoils of the managed world market. This ideological representation is driven by power relations that are correlated with mounting resistances that are already referred to as "the world's other superpower.". References. J. Harwell

"Geographical Perspectives on Development Studies" published on by Oxford University Press.