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Indigenous Development and the Developing World
Author(s) -
Hunter Guy
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7679.1974.tb00254.x
Subject(s) - indigenous , action (physics) , developing country , political science , economic growth , sociology , economics , ecology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
‘The problem is not to wipe the slate clean in undeveloped countries, and to write our own technical and economic equations on it, but to recognise that different countries have a different language of social action; and possess, and indeed have long exercised, peculiar aptitudes for solving the problems of their own time and place; aptitudes which must be further developed in the historic setting of their own past to meet the exigencies of the present and the future.’2