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Agric Hum Values (2011) 28:141–142 DOI 10.1007/s10460-010-9302-x BOOK REVIEW Adam Fforde: Coping with facts: a skeptic’s guide to the problem of development Kumarian Press, Sterling, Virginia, 2009, 221 pp, ISBN 978-1-56549-268-4 Roger Chao Accepted: 10 December 2010 / Published online: 24 December 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 Developmental theory has long been riddled with incon- produce development’’ (17)? These to Fforde are the key sistencies between theory and reality, and between one questions we should be asking, prior to assuming devel- country’s development and another’s lack thereof. Whilst opment as a typical algebraic or scientific problem. These many writers have theorized that this may be due to the questions, he argues, can guide our thinking in new, more complex nature of the many variables on which develop- realistic directions. ment depends, a comprehensive, dependable, and valid The book itself is split into three sections, the first being solution to this ‘‘Development Problem’’ remains to be an introduction to the problem of development, the prob- found. Perhaps we have been looking for the wrong type of lems with traditional conceptions of development, and the solution all along. This book reflects the growing disen- orthodox literature surrounding it. Section Two
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Published: Dec 24, 2010
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