Murli Desai - The Paradigm of International Social Development: Ideologies, Development Systems and Policy Approaches (Routledge Studies in Development and Society)

This book takes a historical approach to analyse ideologies, policy approaches and development systems that have constructed the paradigm of international social development. It aims to review the social construction of development by tracing the historical dynamics of the modern ideologies and political economy of industrialization, colonization, the Cold War, and globalisation; to examine the process of reconstruction of development as social development based on alternate ideologies and alternate policy approaches and review the roles played by the development systems; and to trace the history of social policy approaches from welfare to rights-based, universal, comprehensive and preventative social policies for social development, and identify the roles played by non-government organizations and the social work profession.

Murli Desai was on the faculty of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, in India from 1984 and took voluntary retirement in 2006. Subsequently, she worked as a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Social Work at the National University of Singapore and Professor in the Department of Social Welfare, at the Seoul National University of South Korea.

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Ideologies, Development Systems and Policy Approaches
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Ideologies, Development Systems and Policy Approaches

Murli Desai

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Desai, Murli.

The paradigm of international social development: ideologies, development systems and policy approaches / by Murli Desai.1st Edition.

pages cm.(Routledge studies in development and society; 35)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Social policy. 2. Social service. 3. Non-governmental organizations. I. Title.

HN18.3.D443 2013
361.2'5dc23
2013004440

ISBN13: 978-0-415-85440-5 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-74399-7 (ebk)

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The book on The Paradigm of International Social Development: Ideologies, Development Systems and Policy Approaches examines the paradigm of international social development in two parts. deconstructs the paradigm of economic development and then examines the paradigm shift to social development. This paradigm shift is explored with reference to roles of ideologies, development systems, and policy approaches. Industrialization in the West was supported by the modern ideologies such as liberalism and utilitarianism that led to liberal capitalism, emergence of the democratic nation-states, individualism, and resources from the colonized world such as Asia. However, industrialization in the colonized world took place in the absence of liberal capitalism, mostly by authoritarian states, in collectivistic societies, through development aid by the industrialized countries, as their own resources were in control of and exploited by them. This process in the former colonies was called development of the underdeveloped or developing countries by the capitalist countries as a tool to win the Cold War with the communist countries. Such social construction of economic growth-based development was critiqued and followed by the shift towards social development, based on alternate ideologies such as post-colonialism, postmodernism, multiculturalism, feminism, ecolo-gism, and human rights, and alternate participatory and human development approaches. The social development paradigm that is emerging aims at economic development, poverty eradication, investment in peoples basic needs, environmental sustainability and social justice, through participatory, inclusive and empowering, sustainable and rights-based economic and social policy approaches, by national and international state and civil society systems, through democratic and good governance and partnership among themselves.