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Debating Decentralized Development: A Reconsideration of the Wenzhou and Kerala Models
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international development in general, it seems fitting to conclude with Arturo Escobar’s
observation:
Development was conceived not as a cultural process (culture was a residual variable, to disappear with the advance of modernization) but instead as a system of more or less universally applicable technical interventions intended to deliver some ‘badly needed’ goods to a ‘target’ population.
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Ultimately, the implicit search for universally applicable policy interventions
from local developmental models suggests a similar neglect of contextual political
and social variables.
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Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1994), 44.
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international development in general, it seems fitting to conclude with Arturo Escobar’s
observation:
Development was conceived not as a cultural process (culture was a residual
variable, to disappear with the advance of modernization) but instead as a
system of more or less universally applicable technical interventions intended to
deliver some ‘badly needed’ goods to a ‘target’ population.
78
Ultimately, the implicit search for universally applicable policy interventions
from local developmental models suggests a similar neglect of contextual political
and social variables.
78
Arturo Escobar, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1994), 44.
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