Developing the Third World
The Experience of the Nineteen-Sixties

This volume brings together some of the most important papers on the development of the Third World.

Robinson (Author)

9780521131506, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 February 2010

300 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg

The particular contribution of the Cambridge Conferences on Development was to gather together practical administrators and technical specialists in many fields so that they can examine together a particular problem in development strategy for the Third World. This 1971 volume selects some of the most important papers which were delivered during the 1960s, and presents them as a contribution to the discussion on how economic development could best be planned and advanced. Interspersed amongst the more technical papers are summaries and comments by Ronald Robinson summarising the consensus and divergence of views revealed in the conferences' debates throughout the decade. This book is unusual and valuable in providing the working experience of the practitioners themselves - the public servants, planners and advisers of the decade - in their task of making poor countries richer.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. General Perspective: 1. Practical politics of economic development Ronald Robinson
2. Development decade in perspective Gerald M. Meier
3. Obstacles to progress Cambridge Conference Report
Part II. Industrialisation: 4. Role of industry in Pakistan's development plan Khalid Ikram
5. Promotion of Indian industrial development V. K. Ramaswami
6. The role of industry Cambridge Conference Report
7. Industrialisation through 'intermediate technology' E. F. Schumacher
8. Technology, employment and culture Cambridge Conference Report
9. Latin American industrial development Nuno F. de Figueiredo
Part III. Rural Development: 10. Historic role of agriculture in development Sir Joseph Hutchinson
11. Social attitudes to agriculture K. A. Busia
12. Planning the rural sector Tarlok Singh
13. Priorities in agricultural production and rural industry Edmundo Flores
14. Land reform Erich Jacoby
Part IV. The Role of Government: 15. Mobilising internal resources through taxation Stanley Please
16. Does 'Kaldorian Fiscalism' work? Cambridge Conference Report
17. Administrative obstacles to development Rashid Ibrahim
18. Difficulties in public administration Cambridge Conference Report
Part V. Aid: 19. Effectiveness of foreign assistance Hollis B. Chenery
20. Criteria for allocating aid Cambridge Conference Report
21. Bilateral aid Lord Balogh
22. Roles of bilateral and multilateral aid Cambridge Conference Report
23. The case for economic aid Ronald Robinson
Appendices
Endnotes
Index.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP]