The Challenge to the South: The Report of the South Commission [Paperback]

South Commission (Author)

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Publication Date: December 6, 1990

This important new report provides a general introduction to the problems of development as seen by developing countries.

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"A valuable statement about development strategy, south-south and south-north relations. It is comprehensive, sensible, balanced, full of wisdom, and clearly written....Anyone who wants a lucid statement of what the Third World is all about should read this book."--Economic Development and Cultural Change

"A remarkable report...offers a vision of its future and outlines what needs to be done to achieve rapid and sustained neconomic growth in the context of people-oriented development."--U.N. Chronicle

"The Report is a welcome departure from the publications...in which the problems of economic development in the developing countries are looked upon mainly from the perspectives of the developed countries....[It] has clearly brought out two things: the South has to depend mainly upon itself for its development, and the North cannot simply be oblivious to what happens to the countries of the South."--Southern Economic Journal

"Noteworthy for its stress on environmental aspects."--Finance & Development

"This is a long overdue volume. Comprehensive, well-focused, and highly cognizant of the issues of development as seen by the people most directly involved. Will serve as an excellent supplement to the standard textbook in economic development. However, its greatest contribution will be realized if read by people of the South. Hopefully it will be translated into as many languages of the South as possible."--Elias H. Tuma, University of California, Davis

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 6, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198773110
• ISBN-13: 978-0198773115
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,795,626 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating and informative, May 30, 2000

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This review is from: The Challenge to the South: The Report of the South Commission (Paperback)

"The Challenge to the South : The Report of the South Commission" is a lingering reminder of the now disappeared Third World nonaligned movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which decolonization and the Cold War conflict between the USSR and the US made possible.

The South Commission represents the governments of the nonaligned countries and "The Challenge to the South : The Report of the South Commission" remains a very important and relevant critique of the antidemocratic, neoliberal model of "development" that the West is forcing on the Third World.

The South Commission, reflecting the interests of most of the world's population, calls for a world order based on democracy, justice and the type of bottom-up, holistic social development which Western investors and Western government leaders abhore. A fascinating and informative book that reveals the real needs of the world in the new millennium.