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Integrating Contested Aspirations, Processes and Policy: Development as Hanging In, Stepping Up and Stepping Out

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This article proposes a dialogue around a conceptualisation of development as involving three complementary processes: 'hanging in', 'stepping up' and 'stepping out'. These describe different types and scales of structural change in national and sub-national societies and economies, in different sectors within these economies, and in people's evolving livelihoods. The simplicity and strong theoretical, empirical and experiential content of this make it a powerful framework both for interdisciplinary, inter-sectoral, multi-scale analysis of dynamic development processes, and for structuring dialogue about contested aspirations, assumptions, modalities and constraints among development analysts and stakeholders with different interests and paradigms. Copyright (c) The Author 2009. Journal compilation (c) 2009 Overseas Development Institute..

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  • Andrew Dorward, 2009. "Integrating Contested Aspirations, Processes and Policy: Development as Hanging In, Stepping Up and Stepping Out," Development Policy Review, Overseas Development Institute, vol. 27(2), pages 131-146, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devpol:v:27:y:2009:i:2:p:131-146
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