Resource Mobilization and Economic Growth

Resource mobilization is the main challenge to achieve sustained growth in poor economies
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At times, it seems as though no other discipline has been subject to so much interpretation in both thought and practice as has what we commonly call 'development'. In large part, this is because the field is founded on concepts which are highly subject to the impregnation by whoever is using them of their own cultural and moral preferences. Further, the relative success that a particular individual or group might have at winning the support of the agents of development--thereby legitimating that particular development doctrine--has to do with their institutionalized position of authority in the world vis-à-vis the agents of development and their ability to successfully align the doctrine with the popular sentiment of a particular moment in history. It is for these reasons that development has become so strongly entrenched within the realm of market-based economic philosophy and analysis since the end of the Second World War. This has had profound implications for what have become the 'mainstream', or commonly-held, notions of what are perceived to be the crucial goals of development, the ways in which those goals can be attained, and the criteria upon which are based the measurement of successes and failures. …