Description: This classic text shows how both state-driven and market-led development models have failed and argues for a completely new kind of agenda.
Brief description: Oswaldo de Rivero is a Diplomat, Ambassador (retired) with the Foreign Service of Peru. He has served in London, Moscow, Geneva and New York; as Peru's Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization (WTO), to the United Nations Offices in Geneva and New York and on the United Nations Security Council. He has written numerous essays and articles in Le Monde Diplomatique, The UNESCO Courier, as well as the written press in Geneva and Latin America.
Review Quotes:
"Highly readable, The Development Myth is a useful tool for understanding the enormous problems for survival that will have to be faced by the poverty-stricken, exploding urban populations of the wrongly called "developing countries"." --Javier Perez de Cuellar, United Nations
"Bristling with new ideas, the author provides us with an intelligent way into understanding better the world's present disorders." --Le Monde Diplomatique "This provocative and well-written book may stimulate discussion and promote sound survival and development policies." --The Choice