UPSC Optional 2019Question 20Public AdministrationDevelopment Dynamics350 words

“Development dynamics is marked by a dilemma: the concept of development has a built-in participatory orientation but the practice of development has been inherently exclusionary.” Discuss. (Answer in 350 words)

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