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Ponna Wignaraja, former Secretary General of the Society for International Development (SID) looks at when SID began to redefine its mission as development in broader terms in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He argues that we need a constructive critique of the past and re-visioning the discourse within SID, to meet the challenges of the new global and national realities. SID maybe in danger of encouraging, however well intentioned, the mistakes and inadequacies of the past.
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Two SID Journals: 1981: 1 and 1984: 2 elaborate these underlying concepts and methodological issues.
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Wignaraja, P. Undogmatic Constructive Dissent: SID from the 1970s. Development 50 (Suppl 1), 66–71 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100389
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