1st Edition
Deconstructing Human Development From the Washington Consensus to the 2030 Agenda
By Juan Telleria
Copyright 2021
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides a critical deconstruction of the human development framework promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) since 1990. Taking the Human Development Reports of the UNDP as its starting point for reflection, this book investigates the construction of this framework as well as its political function since the end of the Cold War. The book argues that the UNDP’s... Read more
Introduction: The Endless Quest Chapter 1: (The Absence of) Development Chapter 2: Evolutionism and the Matryoshka Doll Chapter 3: Sisphus and the Mountain Called Capitalism Chapter 4: We are the Champions Chapter 5: We are the World Conclusion: Past, (…) and Future
Biography
Juan Telleria is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Researcher at the Hegoa Institute for International Cooperation and Development Studies, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain.
