developmentalism en · NOUN
Etymology
From developmental + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and imposing high tariffs on imported goods.
Nevertheless, the strong political reasons which supported developmentalism had vanished before the World Bank made its diagnosis.
2007, Costas Lapavitsas, Beyond Market-Driven Development, Routledge, →ISBN:Most fundamentally, Sachs argues, developmentalism advocates the wrong values. Under developmentalism, the economy dominates society rather than the more rational opposite.
2006, Mark Mattern, Putting Ideas to Work, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 325:By invoking developmentalism as more than a statist project for economic growth and one that is also led by an imperative to generate well-being among citizens, I focus on the discursive and other practices through which developmentalism is experienced as a condition, a mode of being and a lived experience.
2014, Sumi Madhok, Rethinking Agency: Developmentalism, Gender and Rights, Routledge, →ISBN:When President Dwight Eisenhower took office in the United States in 1953, he took a decisive stand against developmentalism, which he regarded as a threat to the commercial interests of America's multinational companies.
2017, Jason Hickel, “The Age of the Coup”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:
Relateds
developmentalist · neo-developmentalism
Translations (5)
ko 개발주의 (economic theory) · ca desenvolupamentisme (economic theory) · id developmentalisme (economic theory) · es desarrollismo (economic theory) · pt desenvolvimentismo (economic theory)