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“Development in contemporary discourse has dimensions larger than just economic.” Bring out the significance of this statement.

  • UPSC 2007
  • 60 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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For the post-war modernisation school, development meant rising GDP per capita. Walt W. Rostow's The Stages of Economic Growth (1960) set out a single path to "high mass consumption", and the benefits were expected to trickle down. The statement records the collapse of that equation. Development is now understood as a multidimensional process of human,…

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  • From growth to development
  • The dimensions beyond the economic
  • Significance of the shift
  • Limits
  • Conclusion
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