Controversies, Dilemmas And Openings In The Study Of African Development || State Economic Practice In Zimbabwe In The 1980 Decade: Economic Policy, Planning And State Economic Participation
Like every other scientific theory, socialist development has its own rationale which determines its priorities independent of the subjective wish of its planners. Hence the dialectical fact that the whole process of socio-economic development and of all objects develop through contradictions. A study of these contradictions and their correct resolution is the essence of a successful and conscious development. Without this scientific approach the development of Socialism 'will be haphazard, irrational and eventually destructive' (Babu 19®1 page 158).
A ZIDS Workshop Paper on African development.
History
Publisher
Institute of Development Studies (Zimbabwe) (ZIDS)
Citation
Masuko, L. (1989) Controversies, Dilemmas And Openings In The Study Of African Development, ZIDS Workshop Paper, July 1989. Harare, Mt. Pleasant: IDS