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This introduction is longer than is often the case, as I need to bring the reader step by step to my arguments. The core of my argument is that a good change agent has to have the right to be sceptical—not to be pessimistic about prospects, but to be sceptical about the value of knowledge. It shows how the ‘gate-keepers’, who define what is to be deemed correct in International Development, can be found in the Development Advisory Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and how the book sets out to demolish the conceptual and practical norms of international development as the DAC defines them and as can be found in a host of official documents.
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Fforde, A. (2017). Introduction. In: Reinventing Development . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50227-4_1
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