This article reviews the experiences, concepts, and prevailing paradigms on development from the perspective of economic and international organizations and offers a framework to integrate them. The development phenomenon gathered momentum in the twentieth century as a means to mitigate poverty around the world. The phenomenon-driven nature of development has led to definitions based on different assumptions on the material and spiritual dimensions of development. This article contributes both a review of the main assumptions underlying the dominant paradigms on development and an integration of their core dimensions. The main argument is that for fruitful dialogues and actions among practitioners, social scientists, philosophers, and theologians engaged in promoting development a first step is making explicit the assumptions underlying the dominant paradigms of development to review and integrate at the social sciences, philosophical, and theological levels.
Htor Rocha, "Dominant Development Paradigms: A Review and Integration," Journal of Markets and Morality 16, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 7-24
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