CONTENTS:

Part 1 – Developmentalist/modernisation theory
1. Development: themes and issues
2. Development as evolution: the organic view of society
3. Organic evolutionary theories of development: functionalism
4. Developmentalist theory: modernisation

Part 2 – Dependency theory
5. Development as dependency
6. Colonialism, imperialism and neo-colonialism
7. Development as exploitation: the development of underdevelopment

Part 3 – The limitations of developmentalist and dependency theories
8. Development strategies

Part 4 – An overview
9. Aspects of development
10. Statistics and documentary readings