The Presentist Bias: Ahistoricism, Equity, and International Development in the 1970s.

This article examines development thinking in the 1970s, when modernisation templates stressing growth and industrialisation gave way to a direct concern for relieving poverty. Although this new direction broke with development paradigms that presented Western history as a model for universal emulat...

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Publicado en:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 48; no. 12; pp. 1799 - 1813
Autor principal: Gubser, Michael
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2012
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        Historicism
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          Administration of General Economic Programs
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