The Development of Development Theory.

The article summarizes the development of development theory from its early economistic and eurocentric phase to the present more interdisciplinary and global debate, particularly in the wake of the so-called dependency school. In this context a number of contemporary theoretical trends are distinguished and their relevance is briefly discussed. It is shown that many of these trends take as their point of departure the dependency problematique, and the article concludes that the questions raised by the dependency school were and still are relevant, although the answers arid remedies sometimes were less than adequate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]