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development administration  

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  • Development administration became a strategic concern in American social sciences and to policy makers during the late 1950s, with Walter Rostow's The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. Western development literature tried to identify the noneconomic conditions for accelerated and orderly economic growth. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Development Administration]

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