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The first volume of IDS Companions to Development Studies focuses on pivotal writing emerging from the IDS fellowship during the last 50 years. It includes five topics: perspectives and paradigms, debunking myths, development policy, gender and international perspectives, and policy, as well as names like Seers, Singer, Lipton, Reg Green.

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Foreword; F.Stewart Introduction; R.Jolly PART I: PERSPECTIVES AND PARADIGMS The Limitations of the Special Case; D.Seers The Late Development Effect; R.Dore Are Development Studies Relevant to British Problems?; M.Phil Faculty and Students The Congruence of Marxism and other Neo-Classical Doctrines; D.Seers Development Theory and the Experience of Development: Issues for the Future; J.Toye PART II: DEBUNKING MYTHS Economic Growth: What are we Trying to Measure?; D.Seers Beware of Debt Speak; M.Faber Poverty and Livelihoods: Whose Reality Counts?; R.Chambers PART III: DEVELOPMENT POLICY Employment, Incomes and Equality: Lessons of the ILO Employment Strategy Mission to Kenya; R.Jolly & H.W.Singer Redistribution with Growth: The Economic Framework; M.S.Ahluwalia & H.Chenery Why the Poor Stay Poor; M.Lipton Rapid Rural Appraisal: Rationale and Repertoire; R.Chambers Adjustment with a Human Face; R.Jolly Towards a Flexible State; R.Murray Education and the Market: Which Parts of the Neo-liberal Solution are Correct?; C.Colclough Environmental Entitlements: Dynamics and Institutions in Community-Based Natural Resource Management; M.Leach , R.Mearns & I.Scoones PART IV: GENDER The Continuing Subordination of Women in the Development Process; K.Young Neo-liberalism, Gender and the Limits of the Market; N.Kabeer & J.Humphrey PART V: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY The Distribution of Gains between Investing and Borrowing Countries; H.W.Singer Toward a Rational and Equitable New International Economic Order: A Case for Negotiated Structural Changes; R.H.Green & H.W.Singer

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´There are path-breaking papers in this collection, which have shaped the way we think about development and (to a lesser extent, unfortunately) how it is done. Adjustment with a Human face is more preached than practiced, and the need for it has now spread to the so-called developed countries. And visions of a new world order remain visions. Consequently, these papers remain vividly and urgently relevant.´ - Frances Stewart, Oxford Department of International Development, UK

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Sir Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, where he was Director from 1972-81. After this, he was an Assistant Secretary General of the UN until 2000, first as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF until 1995 and in UNDP from 1995-2000 as Principal Coordinator of UNDP´s Human Development Report. From 2000-2010 he was co-Director of the UN Intellectual History Project and co-author of the final summary volume, UN Ideas that Changed the World. He has been a trustee of OXFAM, a Council member of ODI and President of the UN Association of the United Kingdom. He was knighted by the Queen in 2001 in recognition of his contributions to international development.

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