developmentalism

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English

Etymology

From developmental +‎ -ism.

Noun

developmentalism (uncountable)

  1. An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and imposing high tariffs on imported goods.
    • 2006, Mark Mattern, Putting Ideas to Work, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 325:
      Most fundamentally, Sachs argues, developmentalism advocates the wrong values. Under developmentalism, the economy dominates society rather than the more rational opposite.
    • 2007, Costas Lapavitsas, Beyond Market-Driven Development, Routledge, →ISBN:
      Nevertheless, the strong political reasons which supported developmentalism had vanished before the World Bank made its diagnosis.
    • 2014, Sumi Madhok, Rethinking Agency: Developmentalism, Gender and Rights, Routledge, →ISBN:
      By invoking developmentalism as more than a statist project for economic growth and one that is also led by an imperative to generate well-being among citizens, I focus on the discursive and other practices through which developmentalism is experienced as a condition, a mode of being and a lived experience.
    • 2017, Jason Hickel, “The Age of the Coup”, in The Divide , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:
      When President Dwight Eisenhower took office in the United States in 1953, he took a decisive stand against developmentalism, which he regarded as a threat to the commercial interests of America's multinational companies.

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