Special Section

Development (2007) 50, 59–65. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100386

The Changing Meaning of Development: SID's first decades

Michele Alacevich

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Abstract

Michele Alacevich presents a brief history of the development through the perspective of the Society for International Development (SID). He highlights some of the key ideas promoted by leading development thinkers and practitioners who contributed to SID and its journal in the first decades.

Keywords:

economic growth, Third World, underdevelopment, United Nations, World Bank, civil society, globalization