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Institutionalisation of Development Concepts

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This chapter reveals that institutions are vital to frame development concepts and to keep them influential against counterpart concepts. At the same time, they are likely to skew development concepts as well and, consequently, similar concepts result in different outcomes in respective institutions. To demonstrate these issues, three different moments of institutionalisation of development concepts are featured: the economic growth model by the Bretton Woods Institutions (BWIs), the basic needs approach by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and later the World Bank, and the human development approach within the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It leads to the conclusion that the current position of human development seems greatly attributed to a good match between the concept and the unique institutional features of the UNDP.

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Hirai, T. (2017). Institutionalisation of Development Concepts. In: The Creation of the Human Development Approach. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51568-7_2

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