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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Developmentalism"”.
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Subnational Developmentalism: Brazil in Comparative Perspective
… rise to a new phenomenon I term subnational developmentalism. While situated within a common national context, I demonstrate that subnational actors have responded quite differently to the challenges of the post-statist economy and, in the process, forged divergent institutions for market …
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The neo-Roman conception of freedom in developmentalism: A historical perspective
Does the statism of developmentalism have no regard for freedom? This paper re-examines political and theoretical premises of the developmentalist tradition in economics and argues that it embeds a conception of freedom known as neo-Roman freedom, distinct from that of the liberal tradition and …
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Developmentalism, dependency, and the state: industrial policy and structural transformation in Namibia since 1900
This thesis is about industrial development in Namibia over the 20th and 21st centuries: its causes, trajectory, vicissitudes, context, and politics. The research is premised on the notion that higher levels of industrial development are a good thing and that, to achieve large-scale industrial …
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The Sacrificial Altar of Development: Critiquing Narratives of Developmentalism in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
Since its inception, sf in China has served dual critical and didactic purposes. On the one hand to spread modernism and scientific education whilst entrenching Chinese nationalism with visions of technological miracles and the inevitable rise of China as a global power. On the other hand, it has …
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South Africa s stunted developmentalism: challenges of ideology and practice in building a developmental state
… inability to harness society-wide consensus on developmentalism and the threat of corruption. The study's contribution is that it shows that there is awareness in the ANC of the gap between the party's ideological commitment and its practice of developmentalism. There is admission of the …
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Energy and Ideas of Progress in France and Britain, 1865-1924
… This thesis identifies an emerging ‘energy developmentalism’, which called for maximising energy use to maintain or improve a nation’s place in international competition. Energy developmentalism was not a marginal worldview confined to ‘energeticists’, but a coherent set of claims, …
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Embryology and the evolutionary synthesis: Waddington, development and genetics
… an appeal to the principles of modem synthesis developmentalism; namely, the developmentalist syntheses of Waddington and Schmalhausen. The unforeseen implication of these moves by founding supporters of the synthetic theory, was that the disciplines upon which 1940s developmentalism …
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The rise, fall, and return of development planning in Zambia
… the FNDP did not represent a return to the developmentalism that characterised the post-independence era of development planning. Rather, the FNDP represented a continuation of the 'neoliberal populism' introduced with the PRSP. In practice, this resulted in failed attempts to alleviate some …
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Attitudes and assumptions of children's ministry experts concerning cultural relevancy
… Children's ministry, Theology of children, Developmentalism, Culture, Postmodernism, Church and Children
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The growth of regionalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
… other frameworks such as dependency theories and developmentalism, which have been used to explain Third world conditions, Sub-Saharan Africa in particular. Further, I will explain why integration among developing countries depends on the effects of successful creation of regional markets (whether …
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Minor Measures: The Plebeian Aesthetics of World Literature in the Twentieth Century
… in the intertwined moments of imperialism, developmentalism and globalism. It studies the category of world literature as a heterogeneous set of narrative-cognitive forms and comparative modes of gauging from a particular positionality the world-systemic pressures on individual and …
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Lost in Transition: How Ireland and Three Other Small Open Economies Responded to Europeanisation 1987-2013
… of the capabilities required to carry this developmentalism forward to the new millennium. On the contrary, the 2000s saw the country make serious policy errors principally due to an intellectual failure to assimilate the requirements of living in a currency union. Moreover, democratic …
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THE MATERIALITY OF KNOWLEDGE: THE COLONIAL ROOTS OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
… capital theories and their connections with developmentalism, eugenics, and scientific racism. In the second place, a materialist conception of knowledge, of its relations with human labour and capital, and of its functions within capitalist production and reproduction is proposed in order to …
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Environmental/social cost-benefit analysis : the integration of sustainability : the cases of the Narmada Valley Project and the Three Gorges Dam
… which has had the most influence in the arena of developmentalism. Despite the attraction of the model and its theoretical acceptability to international and often national development procedures, in practice, environmental/social cost-benefit analysis has had little influence, in part due to the …
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Heroes, criminals and good migrants: South Korean transnational entrepreneurs and the makings of moral worlds in the Philippines
… South Koreans abroad back to the South Korea’s developmentalism both as an economic theory and ideology. South Korea’s developmentalism created a view that developing economies were promising “backward” markets and it also engendered the ethical guidelines that South Koreans had to comply with, …
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Coming in from the margins: migrant voices, community broadcasting and social inclusion
… exclusion by comparing it with the discourse of developmentalism to offer a wider theoretical understanding of the issues related to marginalisation and powerlessness. The study argues that people experiencing exclusion from the social and economic processes are further left out in a media …
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Decentralization, Democracy and Development : Examining the potential and limits of subnational empowerment
… decentralization is conducive to democratic developmentalism.
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The platform economy in China: algorithm, labor, and digital capitalism
… striking in China, a country that favors developmentalism over social equality and has deep-seated worship of technology. It also argues that the platform economy’s technological architectures—platforms, big data, and algorithms—open new possibilities for capitalism to commodify and …
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Import/export : raw materials, hemispheric expertise, and the making of Latin American art, 1933-1945
… and the birth of what would come to be known as developmentalism (desarrollismo). Framed by the Great Depression and by World War II, this "long decade" was coeval with the Good Neighbor Policy, in which the nations of the Americas pledged non-intervention in the hemisphere and more intimate …
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Competing constructions of children's participation in social care : analysing text and talk
… to show how the discourses of protectionism, developmentalism, rights and managerialism compete unevenly across them. I argue that there is a new configuration of welfare developing around children’s services where managerialism is dominant and children’s rights are collapsed into the customer …
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