Moving Beyond the ‘global’ and ‘international’ paradigms Reframe the discourse of development studies through the study of World Bank projects in Mainland China
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https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpbm.v22i.1217Keywords:
International Political Economy, Development Studies, International Development, Global Development.Abstract
Theoretical interpretation of development studies has been highly characterized by a highly antagonistic dichotomy. They propose two highly contradictory propositions, one advocating universality, dependence, and interconnectedness (the global paradigm), and the other emphasizing polarization, independence, and asymmetry on the opposite (the international paradigm). By analyzing the World Bank’s development projects in Mainland China from 1981 to 2021 , this study argues that while the ‘global paradigm’ to assess ‘development’ is more in line with the Chinese context, the ‘domestic’ nature rooted in development studies should also be elaborated and emphasized. Furthermore, this article seeks to revise the macro narration of the development studies by reconstructing a bottom-up narrative, which scholars in this field have so far failed to do.
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