Encountering development

By Arturo Escobar

Subjects: Economic history, 1945-, Economic development, Economic conditions, Developing countries, economic conditions, Economic history, Social conditions, Developing countries, social conditions

Description: "Evaluates development enterprise and development discourse from a critical theory perspective. This view of development policies and control mechanisms employs Colombian case studies of the Programa de Desarrollo Rural Integrado and of the local application of the discourse of women in development"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.