Introduction: challenging the orthodoxies / R.M. Auty, J. Toye --

Lowest common denominator or neoliberal manifesto? the polemics of the Washington consensus / J.G. Williamson --

Is the debt crisis largely over? a critical look at the data of international financial institutions / K. Raffer --

The environment for entrepreneurship / R. Prendergast --

Flexibility and economic progress / T. Killick --

Is the idea of development eurocentric? / N. Dower --

Life chances, lifeworlds and a rural future / J.K. van Donge --

Flexible work and female labour: the global integration of Chilean fruit production / S. Barrientos --

Diversifying health service finance in Botswana: the impact of an emergent private sector / J. Charlton --

Green, brown and red issues in a black economy: thoughts on sustainable development in low-income countries / J. Winpenny --

Rural development models in China and Taiwan revisited / J. Jones --

Conservation or development in the Terai? the political ecology of natural resources in Nepal / K. Brown --

Private markets for wastes: the case of Calcutta / A. Bose.