Elusive Development: From Dependence to Self-reliance in the Arab Region

Using the theory of self-reliance as a strategy for arab development, this book aims to address a central issue in developmental thought, namely that of intractable development. It begins with a set of requirements that must be met which mainly include: the need for Arab society to liberate itself from the ideology and philosophy of the neoclassical economic model of development, the need to achieve a harmonious balance in the process of combining the values of modernization with those involved in the return to religious roots, and in the balanced awareness of dependency, the need to understand Arab self-capabilities in their evolving dynamic sense, and the need to adopt a pan-Arab perspective in the conceptualisation of development and the search of thereof.