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Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the Third W orld /

Escobar, Arturo, 1952-

Encountering development : the making and unmaking of the Third W orld / Arturo Escobar. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995. - ix, 290 p. ; 24 cm. - Princeton studies in culture/power/history .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-274) and index.

"Evaluates development enterprise and development discourse from a c ritical theory perspective. This view of development policies and contr ol mechanisms employs Colombian case studies of the Programa de Desarro llo Rural Integrado and of the local application of the discourse of wo men in development"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http ://www.loc.gov/hlas/

0691034095 (cl : acidfree paper) : $49.00 0691001022 (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $15.95 9780691150451

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Economic development.
Economic history--1945-


Developing countries--Economic conditions
Developing countries--Social conditions

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