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vision of the liberation of people and peoples, which animated development practice in the 1950s and 1960s has thus been replaced by a vision of the liberaliza-tion of economies.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 .. The dynamics of long-term transformations of econ-omies and societies [has] slipped from view and attention was placed on short-term growth and re-establishing fi nancial balances.
55070-Sumner-Ch01 9070-Sumner-Ch01 9 112/22/07 10:03:19 AM2/22/07 10:03:19 AM. International Development Studies 10 in our Introduction, this is the fi rst ‘knowledge foundation’ or ‘the focus or domain of study’. In this introduction we discuss the opening quotations to this chapter in order to ...
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