DEVELOPMENT AS A SEARCHING AND LEARNİNG PROCESS

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1984

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BRUTON, Henry J.

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The record of the developiııg countries since the early 1950s does not lend itself to a simple interpretation. One can find evidence of coıısiderable success plus reasons to believe that policymakers in most countries have begun to identify the kinds of policies that seem to work in their particular country and also are better able now to imp- lement these policies. On the other hand, it is equally easy to find evi- dence that development has hardly proceeded at ali, and indeed that things are no better, possibly even worse, than they were 25-30 years ago when the big effort at development got underway. In this essay, I want first to note some of the pieces of evidence that suggest that development has gone and is going about as well as anyoııe could realistically expect, and secondly, I will iııdicate briefly the nature and content of development failures. Finally, I want to suggest a ge- neral reason for the development failures, and to say a few things about how we might eliminate, or considerably reduce, these failures.

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