What next? Volume 1. Setting the context. Special issue of development dialogue

Abstract

In 1976, the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation sponsored a symposium resulting in the publication titled What Now? Another Development that presented diverse, authoritative, critical perspectives on the ways countries, organizations, and individuals in the industrialized world could foster social and economic development in less wealthy countries, most of them in the South. The suggestions were striking for their emphasis on large development projects, encouragement of development of civil society and democratization of societies, and centralized interventions. The present volume provides a follow-up on this first effort thirty years later. One of the most striking ‘findings’ of the present volume is how misguided the earlier volume seems from the standpoint of a similar panel of experts today. What Now? was built on a model of exporting social, political, and economic forms from the industrialized world to less developed countries with the hope of helping them move along an evolutionary, developmental course...