Majid Rahnema has been diplomat and minister of the Iranian Government and functionary of UNDP, t... more

Majid Rahnema has been diplomat and minister of the Iranian Government and functionary of UNDP, the United Nations Development Program. His critique of the Development adventure, based on firsthand experiences by an insider, is more radical than most criticism by outsiders. Rahnema is the author of several books in Persian, English and French, particularly: The Post-Development Reader (with Victoria Bawtree), London: Zed Books, 1997; Le Nord perdu (co-authored by Gustavo Esteva and Gilbert Rist), Lausanne: Éditions d'en bas, 1992; Quand la Misère chasse la pauvreté, Paris, Arles: Fayard/Actes Sud, 2003. less