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What is ‘Development’? - SAGE Publications Inc
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vision of the liberation of people and peoples, which animated development practice in the 1950s and 1960s has thus been replaced by a vision of the liberaliza-tion of economies.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. The shift to ahistorical performance assessment can be interpreted as a form of the post-modernization of development policy analysis.
opment’ is a ‘discourse’ (a set of ideas) that actually shapes and frames ‘reality’ and power relations. It does this because the ‘discourse’ values certain things over others. For example, those who do not have economic assets are viewed as ‘inferior’ from a materialistic viewpoint.
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