Word: das
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cited the employment of a Yugoslav economist in the current DAS project in Peru as an example that, "in the future, it will not be unheard of for us to support socialism...
Arthur MacEwan was skeptical that even a tragedy of immense proportions like Pakistan would be enough to change the dominant development ideology epitomized by the DAS. "In the future, the DAS errors will not be as gross, but there will be no fundamental change," he predicted...
MacEwan added that "the DAS policy in Pakistan was not a mistake, but a logical outgrowth of their ideology and values...
...there are lesser villains in the cast of characters, villains who were often unwitting. The DAS appears to fit into this latter characterization. It would be far from accurate to term the men of the DAS as slavering imperialists. They are well-meaning men who have labored in the far corners of the globe, but they have worn ideological blinders that have prevented them from realistically assessing the problems of developing nations. One hopes that Arthur MacEwan is wrong and that future development policies in the other DAS projects will change dramatically. One hopes that the Pakistan experience will teach...
...final example that summarizes the wrongheadedness of the DAS' planning strategy in Pakistan can be found in the preface to Gustave Papanek's Pakistan's Development. Papanek thanks the "300 industrialists and government officials" he contacted for their cooperation and assistance in helping him to write the book. Hopefully, books about future DAS projects will also contact the mass of the people before lauding the success of a development policy