01055nas a2200157   4500000000100000008004100001653001900042653002700061100001100088245007900099856006800178300001400246490000700260050001400267520061600281       2013                            d10aDeveloping aid10aDevelopmental policies1 aZiai A00aThe discourse of “development” and why the concept should be abandoned  uhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09614524.2013.752792  a123–1360 v23  aZIAI 20133 aThis paper discusses the discourse of “development” and its effects. It argues that there are
good reasons for giving up the concept of development and replacing it with various other concepts.
Practices that aim at improving the human condition need not be identified with the term
“development”. Numerous practices which have not improved the human condition have been
carried out in the name of “development”. These should not be seen as an abuse of a positive
concept, but as linked to certain Eurocentric, depoliticising, and authoritarian implications of
the concept of “development”