Modernization, the State, and Regional Disparity in Developing Countries: Tunisia in Historical Perspective, 1881-1982

by Ezzeddine Moudoud

Overview

This book provides a historical context for understanding why regional disparities emerged in Tunisia and why reducing those disparities has been so difficult. It implies that the failure of regional development in Tunisia does not lie in regional planning, which had never been seriously tried.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367012953
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/02/2019
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword — Development, Underdevelopment and the Transition’s Dilemmas — Introduction — Modernization, Development Theory and the Question of “Transition” — Regional Disparity and the Question of Transition in Tunisia — Growth, Development, Regional Disparity and the Tunisian Dilemma — The Historical Roots of Regional Disparity — Regional Disparity and Regional Development Policies in the Postcolonial Period: 1960–1980 — Towards Rethinking the Regional Question — The Impossible “Jacobin” Regionalization — Conclusions: Rethinking the Regional Question — Epilogue