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People, cities, growth and technological change
2003
Technological forecasting & social change
The concept of economic development appeared during the postwar period as the basis and the source of a very strong hope of eradicating extreme poverty from the face of the Earth. All along the three first decades of this period-the second half of the 20th century-this promise did not seem questionable. It was thought that there were clear signs that material progress reaching larger sectors of the population and economic growth were parallel processes, linked to urbanization. A new style was
doi:10.1016/s0040-1625(01)00166-4
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