ABSTRACT

The majority of this book has dealt with the differing definitions of ‘development’ and the theorizations of why ‘development’ has or has not taken place with the nation state as the main unit of analysis. In Chapter 4 the focus was more on sub-national levels, with an examination of what have been termed ‘grassroots’ approaches and in Chapter 5 different groupings within society were examined. In this chapter we look at the global scale; in particular, the development implications of processes that have been put under the heading of ‘globalization’.