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An obvious difficulty with any strategy of major and rapid structural change is the heavy demands it is likely to place on a country’s administrative capacity. This raises the question whether it is possible for governments of Third World countries to perform the administrative tasks that are essential for implementing a strategy of egalitarian development.
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For an excellent account see Frances Stewart, Technology and Underdevelopment (Macmillan, 1977).
John P. Lewis, ‘The Public Works Approach to Low-End Poverty Problems: New Potentialities of an Old Answer’, Journal of Development Planning, no. 5 (1972).
See E. N. Mangat Rai, Patterns of Administrative Development in Independent India (The Athlone Press, 1976 ).
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Griffin, K., James, J. (1981). On the Administration of Rapid Structural Change. In: The Transition to Egalitarian Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05914-0_5
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