Editorial Introduction
Abstract
tf views Editorial Introduction Deryke Belshaw Deryke Belshaw is Professor Emeritus of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia and Director of the Institute for Development Research at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies Keywords: development, research he Institute for Development Research convened its second workshop in November 2002 around the theme ‘Christian and Secular Approaches to Development in a Globalizing World: Competition or complementarity?' The last word in the subtitle was intended to imply that not necessarily were Christian approaches ‘all right' and secular ones ‘all wrong': Rather, the question is how far are various strategies being effective in solving anti-development problems - and how can we know the answer to the question more reliably? Of the larger number of alternative development strategies identified as deserving attention in the call for papers, only three were addressed at the workshop: Transformational (or holistic) development, particularly; the poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSPs) introduced by the Washington-based international financial institutions (IFIs): the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (IBRD); and the human rights-based approach to development (HRAD) promoted particularly by various United Nations agencies. Still to be examined critically within the same evaluative framework are marketdriven development,