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Any assessment of development requires a distinction be made between two interrelated, though distinct, issues. On the one hand, development refers to an actual historical and material occurrence: a significant change in the economic, social, political, and cultural conditions affecting large groups of people. On the other hand, development can be conceived of as a construct, mental picture, or theory about such change. This polisemic but distinctively Western concept of development as progress has evolved: from the Augustinian notion of the ascent of humanity from the City of Man to the City of God guided by divine providence, to the ideas of progress in the Enlightenment, to social evolution, modernity, and the unfolding of human potential. There are many theories of development but until the mid-nineteenth century, real development occurred largely without explicit theories, let alone prescriptions for its inducement.
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Dwivedi, O.P., Khator, R., Nef, J. (2007). A History of Development and Development as History. In: Managing Development in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627390_2
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