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Would you agree that ‘Mortimer’ assessment of Indonesian Economic Policiesis as Valid for the 1980s and it was for 1970s’ ?

Consideration of the definition attached to the world development is of crucial importance in any attempt to assess the likely effectiveness of rival strategies for tackling the problems of the poor countries of the world. In the most general development implies a process of improvement of becoming. Development is pictured as the result of a partnership between politicians who want to accelerate economic growth, technicians who show them how. Economic growth is conventionally measured by the increase in gross national product (GNP) overtime, there is tendency for old economists to use GNP interchangeably as both a measure an as a shorthand definition of development. In general GNP is not same as development.
The broader economic and non economic social changes which in fact compromise development can and do occur irrespective of changes in GNP, while national income estimates add together activities of widely different significance for even purely economic development. Even if GNP is...

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