Integrating contested aspirations, processes and policy: development as hanging in, stepping up and stepping out
| Main author: | Dorward, Andrew |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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eprints-6167 |
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eprints |
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SOAS, University of London |
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SOAS Research Online |
| language |
English |
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English |
| topic |
HB Economic Theory |
| description |
There are continuing disagreements regarding aspirations and processes in development and appropriate policies for promoting these. This paper proposes a dialogue around a conceptualisation of development as involving three complementary processes: ‘hanging in’, ‘stepping up’ and ‘stepping out’. It argues that these can describe different types of structural change operating at different scales and affecting national and sub-national societies and economies, different sectors within these economies, and people’s evolving livelihoods. The simplicity of this conceptualisation and its strong theoretical, empirical and experiential content make it a powerful framework both for inter-disciplinary, inter-sectoral, multi-scale analysis of dynamic development processes, and for structuring dialogue about contested aspirations, assumptions, modalities and constraints among development analysts and stakeholders with different interests and paradigms. |
| format |
Journal Article |
| author |
Dorward, Andrew |
| author_facet |
Dorward, Andrew |
| authorStr |
Dorward, Andrew |
| author_letter |
Dorward, Andrew |
| title |
Integrating contested aspirations, processes and policy: development as hanging in, stepping up and stepping out |
| publisher |
Wiley |
| publishDate |
2009 |
| url |
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/6167/
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