17 The Giant Awakens

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Emerging from War 11
8. 2 The Road to Bretton Woods 31
9. 3 Crumbling Empires 51
10. 4 From Reconstruction to Development 72
11. 5 India and the Allure of Planning 91
12. 6 Latin America and Import Substitution 110
13. 7 Cold War Fault Lines 133
14. 8 To Develop, Modernise! 157
15. 9 The Population Bomb, Famine and the Green Revolution 179
16. 10 Resource Limits, Resource Booms, Resource Crises 202
17. 11 Radicals, Revolutionaries and Utopians 235
18. 12 Enter the Free Market 268
19. 13 Turmoil, Transition and Flux 298
20. 14 The Faltering Continent 328
21. 15 Lurching towards Disaster 357
22. 16 The Soaring Flying Geese 387
23. 17 The Giant Awakens 417
24. 18 Globalisation Ascendant 447
25. 19 The Short Decade 481
26. 20 Fragmentation and Intractability 511
27. 21 The Authoritarian Option 544
28. 22 The Chasm 574
29. Annexe: UN Millennium Development Goals (2000) 604
30. Notes 606
31. Index 652