Post-development

'''Post-development '''

definition

discussion        “‘[P]ost-development’ challenges the idea that development may be understood as a benevolent response to the manifest needs of the world’s poor, suggesting instead that ‘development’ is an idea whose primary function is to serve the commercial and geo-political needs and interests of capitalism, globalization and ‘the West’. Framed in this way, development constitutes a domain of power, whose definition, measurement and treatment of development ‘problems’ (like poverty, hunger, malnutrition, pain and suffering) mask and legitimate what is in fact the application of American/Western/bureaucratic power” (Johnson 2009: 20).