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...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 48; no. 12; pp. 1799 - 1813 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2012
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