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Development Policy at a Crossroads

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In this chapter we set the scene. We consider the changing context for international development in terms of climate change, the rise of China et al., migration, urbanisation and so on and ask what is the current state of global development? We then review the resurgence of big ideas in the Sachs, Collier, Easterly and others’ attempts to define the ‘problem’ and the ‘solutions’.1 The chapter is structured as follows. Section 2 addresses how the context — the world — is changing. Section 3 focuses on the baseline — the state of global development. Section 4 discusses the resurgence of big ideas or meta-narratives after the Washington Consensus. Section 5 concludes with discussion of the ‘centre of gravity’ in the 3Gs or governance, growth and globalisation.

The contest of ideas in... policy making can evolve independ- ently of their intellectual merit and empirical credibility (Beeson and Islam, 2005:197).

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    Andy Sumner (Research Fellow)

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    Meera Tiwari (Head of International Development Studies)

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Sumner, A., Tiwari, M. (2009). Development Policy at a Crossroads. In: After 2015: International Development Policy at a Crossroads. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234680_2

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