promoting, or otherwise, good governance, democracy, and human rights. This book provides a critical

social context out of which a new democracy is being built. Collectively, the authors suggest that there

Policy Reform -- Institutions and Path Dependency -- Democracy versus Autocracy: Which Facilitates Faster

and social opportunity -- The importance of democracy -- Famines and other crises -- Women's agency

-- Feminist theories of development -- Critical modernism, radical democracy, development.

. 2. Seeking an appropriate political-economic order. 3. Democracy and economic growth. 4. The social