History, historians and development policy : a necessary dialogue /

The substantive and methodological contributions of professional historians to development policy debates was marginal, whether because of the dominance of economists or the inability of historians to contribute. There are broadly three ways in which history matters for development policy. These inc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bayly, C. A. (Editor ), Rao, Vijayendra (Editor ), Szreter, Simon (Editor ), Woolcock, Michael (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Temas:
History.
History
Histoire.
history (discipline)
Social Science > Developing & Emerging Countries.
General
Social Science
Developing & Emerging Countries
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. How and why history matters for development policy / Michael Woolcock, Simon Szreter and Vijayendra Rao
  • 2. Indigenous and colonial origins of comparative economic development: The case of colonial India and Africa / C.A. Bayly
  • Commentary: History, time and temporality in development discourse / Uma Kothari
  • Historical contributions to contemporary development policy issues: Social Protection.
  • 3. Social security as a developmental institution? The relative efficacy of Poor Relief provisions under the English old Poor Law / Richard Smith
  • 4. Historical lessons about contemporary social welfare: Chinese puzzles and global challenges / R. Bing Wong
  • Commentary: Why might history matter for development policy? / Ravi Kanbur
  • Public Health
  • 5. Health in India since Independence / Sunil S. Amrith
  • 6. Health care policy for American Indians since the early 20th century / Stephen J. Kunitz
  • Commentary: Can historians assist development policy-making, or just highlight its faults? / David Hall-Mathews
  • Public education
  • 7. The end of literacy: The growth and measurement of British public education since the early nineteenth century / David Vincent
  • 8. The tools of transition: Education and development in modern southeast Asian history / Tim Harper
  • Commentary: Remembering the forgetting in education / Lant Pritchett
  • Natural resource management
  • 9. Energy and natural resource dependency in Europe, 1600-1900 / Paul Warde
  • 10. Special rights in property: Why modern African economies are dependent on mineral resources / Keith Breckenridge
  • Commentary: Natural resources and development-which histories matter? / Mick Moore.

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