On following current discussions in politics and business but also in much of academia, one suspects that after nearly six decades of development studies - with rich and varied outputs - we are back to square one: the achievement of economic growth as a development target is omnipresent and any other issue only seems to play a subordinate role. In this paper you can read what this means for the lives of the vast majority of the world's population living in underdeveloped economies and join me on a historic excursion into the evolution of development thinking.
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