Nations rise and nations fade; this is one way to think about development. Development assistance, as conceived in the post-WWII period, plays a lesser, at the very least different role, than it did in the decades following the Marshall Plan. Awkwardly for many of us, today’s rising stars appear to owe little to liberal western approaches to growth and equity. So development is hot, development assistance isn’t. Where next?
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