SOSC 4510 Chapter Notes - Chapter --: Rent-Seeking, Shared Experience, Rein
29 Apr 2016
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Seminar 15: january 21st the loss of development"s meta-narrative. The world bank, the world"s bank changing discourses of development: from reliance on the. State and modernizing elites to bypassing the state, in geschiere (textbook 3): 27-33. With independence, the idea of development became a forceful translation of modernization, especially where africa was concerned. Marked also by a strong emphasis on technocratic social engineering and unliterary. The banks 1989 africa report still maintains the developmental ideal, except that it now perceives the state bureaucracy rather than rural society as the object to be developed. The task for governments of developing countries is to reorient their development policies in order to attack directly the personal poverty of the most desired 40% of their populations. The task of political leadership in the wealthy world is to match that resolve and courage with a great commitment to equity between their own affluent nations and the grossly disadvantaged developing nations.
