developmentalism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Most fundamentally, Sachs argues, developmentalism advocates the wrong values. Under developmentalism, the economy dominates society rather than the more rational opposite."
- "Nevertheless, the strong political reasons which supported developmentalism had vanished before the World Bank made its diagnosis."
- "By invoking developmentalism as more than a statist project for economic growth and one that is also led by an imperative to generate well-being among citizens, I focus on the discursive and other practices through which developmentalism is experienced as a condition, a mode of being and a lived experience."
- "When President Dwight Eisenhower took office in the United States in 1953, he took a decisive stand against developmentalism, which he regarded as a threat to the commercial interests of America's multinational companies."
Etymology
From developmental + -ism.