Lant Pritchett on Where Did Development Economics Go Wrong?
Ideas of India
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The World Bank Project Mentality
"The way the field was headed was that even to do a successful world bank project, you had to be embedded in t e more realistic politics," he says. "So it was an unbelievably conservative yo otno ... We can keep everything we needed about the status glow and all we have to do is add an or siti to it,. But they wern't kidding me." 'I think one of my man regrets is not having devoted more time to pointing out how ludicrous on the face of it their fundamental claims were'
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