Their Future : A History of Ahistoricism in International Development / Michael Gubser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gubser, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance.

Economic development projects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (411 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2025]

Summary:

A compelling examination of how economic development projects ignore local history, and the effects of this shortsightedness Foreign aid planners rarely consider the history of the societies in which they work, an oversight noted in the development literature but rarely examined. Aid programs costing billions of dollars operate largely in a historical vacuum, divorced from the knowledge of what succeeded or failed in the past. Michael Gubser chronicles the varieties of ahistoricism in international development theory and practice since 1945. He traces the history of development ideas, analyzing key theoretical and policy statements to highlight the marginalization of history in favor of technical solutions to economic and social problems; and he examines aid programs in several developing countries to show how Western models of social and economic development have been applied and misapplied.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

0-300-28319-9

OCLC:

1519122229