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What is development? - Critical Realism

References: Narasaiah, M. L. (2004). Information Technology and Development. First Edition. Discovery Publishing House. New Delhi. ISBN: 81-7141-760-4 Development Theory. Wikipedia What is Development? The World Bank. Reviving Critical Modernism in Development Studies . 7 September 2016 Richard Heeks Reviving Critical Modernism in Development Studies 7 September 2016 Richard Heeks Leave a comment Go to comments Critical modernism forms a very small, rather dated trickle of ideas within development studies. How could it be updated to serve as a lens for current research? Critical modernism can be understood as a wide sweep of ideas, particularly encompassing thinkers such as Habermas and Gramsci [1] .  But it has only a small explicit footprint within development studies largely triggered by a chapter in Peet & Hartwick’s book Theories of Development , published in 1999 [2] .  Itself developed from earlier work, this was particularly...