The west’s standard of living is posited as the ideal and universally desirable. Aid agencies pretend that the dominance of social forces that benefit from large land holdings, for example, or from global capitalism do not matter. Though power relations matter very much, they are typically ignored. Technical projects and apolitical programmes are presented as solutions to problems of inequality. The promise of “development” makes interventions seem necessary and morally imperative.
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