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The launch of the SAPNA study "Pro-poor Growth and Governance
in South Asia: Decentralisation and Participatory Development", during
the 21st Annual Conference of the Pakistan Society for Development
Economics was most fortunate. The presence of Minister Daniyal Aziz in
the Chair was not accidental. When the Prime Minister of Pakistan
visited Sri Lanka recently, he was presented with a copy. He immediately
saw in this Pro Poor Growth Strategy, the link between Pakistan's
attempt at decentralisation reforms to deepen political democratic
processes and the need for a more balanced growth path, which could also
result in greater economic democracy. He suggested that Minister Aziz
chair this session and evolve a more holistic conceptual framework to
guide his own work in the National Reconstruction Bureau.

Examines case profiles of social transition under nonclassical conditions in South Korea to capitalism & in the People's Republic of China to socialism in the 1950s & 1960s, which differed from attempts in Latin America & Eastern Europe respectively, in search of development alternatives & their concomitant poverty eradication strategies. In both cases, a considerable transformation was undertaken, & culturally relevant development paradigms were evolved. The state played a strategic role, providing sensitive support for the release of the people's creative energies. A new accumulation process at the base of the economies -- with asset redistribution, savings, a new human/nature/technology mix -- & an effort to keep the rural people's surplus in their hands through organizations of the poor contributed to the eradication of the worst forms of poverty within a reasonable time frame. Both cases showed that the objectives of growth, human development, & greater equity could be part of a complementary process & need not be trade-offs. 2 Photographs. Adapted from the source document.

This paper examines the conventional top-down framework of development, with its dependence on transfer of external capital and technology, and then attempts to formulate an alternative perspective primarily in terms of human development, participation and self-reliance. It identifies some issues relevant to technology development and choices within the new development perspective both in 'developed' and in 'developing' countries. It argues that techno-economic notions of development and marginal reforms contribute neither to a meaningful social change nor to development in wider human terms; a new man-nature-technology mix is required. Development in human terms requires new processes and a non-alienating technology, based primarily on the existence of more than one stock of knowledge and technology yet to be created. It raises several fundamental questions to which developmentalists and technologists alike must address themselves, and identifies some possible interventions based on actual experience for utilizing the full potential for scientific enquiry, and the systematic application of the results of such enquiry, to the task of transforming society in economic as well as human terms and enhancing the dignity and creativity of people everywhere. The paper thus attempts to respond to the basic question, with the new understanding of reality: Cannot 'another development' in technology help to reverse the zero-sum game, which the development process has become, and transform it into a positive-sum game?

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