COMPARISONS CONVERGENCE AND CONNECTIONS - DEVELOPMENT STUDIES IN NORTH AND SOUTH

Increasing poverty and social exclusion (PSE) open up the possibility of fertile dialogue between North and South on three issues of success ively greater depth: first, new comparisons or lessons to be drawn acr oss geographical boundaries about the characteristics, causes and reme dies of PSE. Second, the implications of a new convergence between Nor th and South. And third, the possibility of a new theory to expose con nections between PSE in North and South. New alliances of disciplinary and sectoral specialists suggest themselves.