Auguste Comte completed the invention of development which his Saint-Simonian
colleagues had begun. Comte saw'progress as the development of Order under the …

TRE current conception of progress is shifting and indefinite. Sometimes it comprehends
little more than simple growth-as of a nation in the number of its members and the extent of …

Arv SEN AND MARTHANUSSBAUM are constructinga new and important ethic for
international development. Global hunger and other severe deprivations, they argue …

The relationship of Africa, Asia and Latin America to Europe and North America in the post-
war period is often couched in the language of development. Something seems to be amiss …

Events of the past two decades have challenged many of the fundamental beliefs,
institutions, and values of modern western culture--the culture of" progress." Are science and …

The paper explores the interactions between the early concerns of development economics,
and the new issues which the discipline is called upon to address. Particular emphasis is …

So commonplace has the concept of" economic development" become to this generation
that it comes as a surprise to find the Oxford English Dictionary still unaware of" …

Andy Storey looks at post-development theory's challenge to dominant development
paradigms. He offers a critique of the post-development critique and suggests that some of …

There has been a shift, in recent years, in the understanding of the process of development.
It is not a switch (as often portrayed) from a state-dependent view of development to a …

First published in 1983, François Perroux's A New Concept of Development analyses the
major paradox of our era: the desire for progress and the mistrust of its consequences. The …