Rural-based models for rural development: the Indian experience

Towards a Framework for Spatial Resolution of Structural Polarity in African Development

“…Let us assume that this fundamental logic of neoclassical economics is workable. But as far as Africa is concerned, we are still left with the question of whether the laissez-faire mechanism and its forces of equilibrium for regional welfare can operate in a space highly distorted by colonial structures [113] which became "economic and institutional barriers that limit a society's capacity for growth" [62, p. 230].…”