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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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Published in:Journal of Development Studies Vol. 48; no. 12; pp. 1799 - 1813
Main Author: Gubser, Michael
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2012
Subjects:
Historicism
Modernization (Social science)
Industrialization
Poverty
Social problems
Income inequality
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