From the post-World War II decolonization to about mid-1980s, mainstream development thinking has focussed on 'economics', on the one-dimensional abstraction of homo economicus, to the exclusion of all else: specially the socio-cultural context in which development might take place. This divorce of 'development' from 'culture', however, was "poor economics" - a hard fact, which the international community has come to discover gradually.' ...
