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Developmentalism, as a book category, gathers works that examine how societies pursue economic and social transformation, the ideas and institutions that drive it, and its real-world consequences. It spans classic and contemporary debates in development economics and political economy—modernization theory, the developmental state, industrial policy and planning—alongside analyses of aid, global financial institutions, and reform models from import substitution to export-led growth and structural adjustment. The category includes comparative histories and case studies across regions, practical policy handbooks, and ground-level ethnographies. It also embraces critiques and alternatives such as dependency and world-systems analysis, post-development, the capabilities approach, sustainability and climate resilience, and decolonial and feminist perspectives. Overall, books in this genre probe the promises, trade-offs, and politics of “development,” linking grand strategy to lived experience.

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