Rethinking of Development is about anti-development approach.

1. Minhazur Rahman Rezvi
Development Studies
University of Dhaka

2. In Mexico, you must be either very dumb or very rich
if you fail to notice that ‘development’ stinks. The
damage to persons, the corruption of politics, and the
degradation of nature which until recently were only
implicit in ‘development,’ can now be seen, touched,
and smelled.” --Gustavo Esteva (1987)

3.  The greatest failure of the century.
Trickle down, inequality, aid & culture.
 This thought arose in 1980s.
 Anti-development or Alternative development
 The works of scholars like Gustavo Esteva Arturo
Escobar Majid Rahnema.

4. • Just development
• Equity & Social Justice
• Participatory Development
• people's & local society's participation
• PAR
• Development from below
• Bottom -up development

5. • Just development
• Equity & Social Justice
• Participatory Development
• people's & local society's participation
• PAR
• Development from below
• Bottom -up development

6. • Just development
• Equity & Social Justice
• Participatory Development
• people's & local society's participation
• PAR
• Development from below
• Bottom -up development

7. • “people centred development”
• participatory decision-making & human
development
• “Endogenous Development
• own customs, values & culture

8. • “people centred development”
• participatory decision-making & human
development
• “Endogenous Development
• own customs, values & culture