The Failure Of Development – OpEd

In the closing years of the 1940s, when World War II had ended and its winners were reorganizing human life on planet earth, many feared nuclear war.  The delegates who met at San Francisco and founded the United Nations intended to organize lasting peace.  Many feared the spread of Communism.  Others feared the defeat of Communism and the definitive victory of capitalism.  Except for a few outliers, like Mahatma Gandhi and his economist colleague J.C. Kumarappa, nobody feared the greatest danger of all: development.Although “peace” and “security” were ideals named...