Most fundamentally, Sachs argues, developmentalism advocates the wrong values. Under developmentalism, the economy dominates society rather than the more rational opposite.
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Developmentalism
Synonyms for "developmentalism"
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Catalan
1 entries- desenvolupamentisme noun (economic theory)
Indonesian
1 entries- developmentalisme noun (economic theory)
Korean
1 entries- 개발주의 noun (economic theory)
Portuguese
1 entries- desenvolvimentismo noun (economic theory)
Spanish
1 entries- desarrollismo noun (economic theory)
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Nevertheless, the strong political reasons which supported developmentalism had vanished before the World Bank made its diagnosis.
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By invoking developmentalism as more than a statist project for economic growth and one that is also led by an imperative to generate well-being among citizens, I focus on the discursive and other practices through which developmentalism is experienced as a condition, a mode of being and a lived experience.
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When President Dwight Eisenhower took office in the United States in 1953, he took a decisive stand against developmentalism, which he regarded as a threat to the commercial interests of America's multinational companies.
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