Ziai more or less defines this movement as placing an emphasis on alternatives to development via grassroots, local and regional movements. ... What he takes particular offense to is the notion of "alternatives to development," precisely because no post-development theorist provides concrete alternatives. ... Hence treating all the different strains of post-development as a whole coherent school of thought leads to these criticisms. ... Among these false perceptions include the view that the people of Lesotho have not had modern conveniences of schools, hospitals and roads even afte...

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"The assimilation of the British business classes to the social pattern of the gentry and aristocracy had proceeded very rapidly from the mid nineteenth century, the period when so many of the so called ` public schools ` were founded, or reformed by finally excluding the poor for whom they had originally been intended. ... Unfortunately the public school formed the model for the new system of secondary education, which the less privileged sectors of the new middle class were allowed to construct for themselves after the Education Act of 1902, and whose main object was to exclude from higher e...

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"Money makes the world go 'round." Sports could not exist without the presence of money. You have high paid athletes asking for multi-million dollar contacts, while at the same time you have doctors not even making close to that amount. There are corporation buying out sports teams, buying stadiums,...

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