The development experience : The shock of underdevelopment -- Vulnerability, the key to understanding and promoting development -- Development goals: Promise versus performance plans -- Development as dialectical process -- Ethical strategies for development : General requirements -- Three strategic principles -- Development planning as dialogue -- Technical cooperation in a new key -- Existence rationality and the dynamics of value change -- What kind of development? : Anti-development and the constraints upon development -- The dimensions of authentic development -- World resources and priority needs -- Despair's dilemma: Ethics and revolution -- Conclusion: the cruel choice