Management

Towards Human Development

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Over the past half century, the years in which Richard Jolly has been working as a development economist and practitioner, he led or contributed to some major changes in development thinking. This collection of essays illumi- nates and evaluates some consequences of these changes in approach. Two broad categories of change can be distinguished: first, from an exclusive focus on aggregate income growth, to one in which the distribution of income, and the consequences for poverty and inequality, came to be regarded as of vital importance; and second, to a recognition that development objec- tives are multidimensional, covering a range of capabilities or freedoms, and incomes are a means rather than the overriding objective. This evolution in part reflected learning from the consequences of previous approaches, and in part changing political economy, political ideologies, and power.
As a background to the discussions in this book, it is helpful briefly to review these changes, drawing on Chris Colclough’s chapter, which catego- rizes significant stages in this evolution, in most of which Richard played an important part (as shown by John Toye’s biography in Chapter 2, which gives a more detailed account of Richard’s contribution).

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Towards Human Development

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New York : Oxford University Press Inc., 2014

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1-337

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English

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978–0–19–870608–3

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1st Edtion

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Management

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