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| ISBN | 979-8-89966-814-2 |
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| Author | Joseph Jimmy Utibe |
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| Number of pages | 320 |
Development Is Easy A New Perspective in the Theories of Development
Look around the world. Why does it take a generation to build a reliable power grid in one country, but only a few years in another? Why do certain innovations, like mobile banking, sweep across entire continents, seemingly bypassing all the “prerequisites” that development theory insists upon? The answer lies in the insidious lie that […]
ISBN: 979-8-89966-814-2
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Look around the world. Why does it take a generation to build a reliable power grid in one country,
but only a few years in another? Why do certain innovations, like mobile banking, sweep across
entire continents, seemingly bypassing all the “prerequisites” that development theory insists upon? The answer lies in the insidious lie that has permeated our collective thinking: that development is a fundamentally complex problem requiring complex, difficult solutions. This book asserts the opposite: the underlying mechanisms of sustained human and economic progress are profoundly simple. They are obscured only by the theoretical scaffolding we have erected around them—a scaffolding that often benefits the experts more than the people it is meant to serve.
