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Dilemmas of Development: Reflections on the Counter-Revolution in Development Economics
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The counter-revolution in aid and trade policy and the world debt crisis as mentioned in this paper is a classic example of the counter-reformation in the Third World's development policy, and it is the case of India.Abstract:
Is the Third World still there? development policy in the shadow of Keynes Bauer's dissent and the new vision of growth the counter-revolution arrives - Lal, Little and Balassa political economy of the Left and the new Right the new political economy applied to India's development the counter-revolution in aid and trade policy the counter-revolution and the world debt crisis.read more
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