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When development work perpetuates what it claims to change

I have been working in rural development for fifteen years and just realized I might have been part of keeping places rural instead of helping them develop.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional identity can become entangled with maintaining the problems one is meant to solve.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Development economics — why some countries are poor?”

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