... developing countries that "fits well with the institutional needs of 'development' agencies." What was needed, argued post-development theorists was a need to move beyond development. Ziai (2007) quotes Escobar as saying that post-development thinkers were "interested not in development alternatives but in alternatives to development." Escobar (2007) further argues that to achieve this, it is ... ...

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... with the problem of poverty which (e.g. famines in the sub-continent due to capitalist control of the modes and means of production) was the economic aspect of colonial capitalism. Polanyi quotes Owen in this regard: "unless legislative (decentralised) interference and direction counteracted these devastating forces, great and permanent evils would follow" . Thus, the evil of undesirable lock-in effects and Path ... ...

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