1. Development Studies as a Subject Area -- 2. The Theoretical Heritage and Controversial Issues in Development Research -- 3. Conceptions and Dimensions of Development -- 4. Major Theoretical Currents in Development Economics -- 5. Theories of Growth and Modernisation -- 6. Structuralist Theories and Industrial Development -- 7. Neo-Marxist Theories of Underdevelopment and Dependency -- 8. Modes of Production and Social Classes -- 9. The International Division of Labour and Transnational Corporations --10. Focus on Agricultural Development -- 11. Development with Limited Natural Resources -- 12. Political Development and State Building -- 13. The Political Heritage and Forms of Regime -- 14. Social Forces and Forms of Regime -- 15. Decentralisation and Local-level Politics -- 16. The State and the Development Process -- 17. The Political Economy of Development -- 18. State or Market? -- 19. Development and Security -- 20. Dimensions of Alternative Development.

21. Poverty and Social Development -- 22. The Political Economy of Civil Society -- 23. Ethnic Identities, Nationality and Conflict -- 24. People-managed Development -- 25. A Critical Assessment of Development Theories.