The terms ‘people’s participation’ and ‘community participation’ are related phrases used in the development literature across the world from the past three decades. The intellectual roots of the concept of participation, as said by Rajni Kothari, can be traced to “the liberal theory of progress, equality and democracy”. In the contemporary period, ‘people’s participation’ at … Read more

The concept of politics associated with the World Bank’s view of development is the techno-managerial view of democracy resulted from the modifications to liberalism in 1970s. From this period, the World Bank emerged as a chief proponent of ‘development’ and ‘state’. The World Bank’s views in relation to development and politics can be traced from … Read more

In the post-colonial period, the means of involvement in developing countries by developed countries are constantly changing. Particularly from the 1970s, the World Bank is intervening in the policy decisions of developing nations in the name of assistance to development. Especially, whenever there is crisis in developing countries, the World Bank came forward with a … Read more

The approach represented by the World Bank and other main stream development analysts in analysing the East Asian model of development has been subject to criticism by Dependency theorists. The main concerns of the Dependency theorists in understanding the East Asian model are the functioning of the world capitalist economy, colonialism, imperialism, the role of … Read more