Understanding Development Economics: Its Challenge to Development Studies

by Adam Fforde

Important parts of development practice, especially in key institutions such as the World Bank, are dominated by economists. In contrast, Development Studies is largely based upon multidisciplinary work in which anthropologists, human geographers, sociologists, and others play important roles. Hence, a tension has arisen between the claims made by Development Economics to be a scientific, measurable discipline prone to wide usage of mathematical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041586982X
• ISBN13: 9780415869829
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"