Transcription of What is ‘Development’?
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9 development is a concept which is contested both theoretically and politically, and is inherently both complex and ambiguous .. Recently [it] has taken on the limited meaning of the practice of development agencies, especially in aiming at reducing pov-erty and the millennium development goals . (Thomas, 2004: 1, 2)The vision of the liberation of people and peoples, which animated development practice in the 1950s and 1960s has thus been replaced by a vision of the liberaliza-tion of economies. The goal of structural transformation has been replaced with the goal of spatial.
embraced by international development donor agencies that Thomas notes. This is a defi nition of development which is directly related to the achievement of poverty reduction and of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). There is a third perspective from a …
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