Managing Development in a Globalized World

Preface

This book examines the state of development management in the context of changed and changing circumstances within developing countries and the international environment. Traditionally, development has been rooted in ideologies and assumptions prevalent in the developed world and in practices and strategies adopted by leading industrial nations. However, eclectic ideas and approaches often clashed with existing long-established notions of progress and modes of realizing social and economic change. The objectives of development, thus, remained ...