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The Current Impasse in Development Thinking: The Metaphysic of Power

My intention in this paper is not to propose a new formal definition of development, even if it were possible to do so. Instead I shall proceed by accepting the problematic nature of the notion of development itself, which rules out any cut-and-dried definition. The formulation will have to await the resolution of the puzzling philosophical, historical and economic aspects pertaining to a range of phenomena traditionally associated with the activities given the name of ‘development’. The only thing that can be said in this regard with some confidence is that the term ‘development’ will have to relate, in some unique way, to the possibility of directional as well as directed social change.’ The idea of such a change is, however, itself based on a whole set of interrelated but in themselves tenuous assumptions. These are as follows: