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Pizza with the Planners is a regular event hosted by Livable Memphis.
Memphis Flyer Mary Cashiola 2010
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Pizza with the Planners is a regular event hosted by Livable Memphis.
Memphis Flyer Mary Cashiola 2010
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Pizza with the Planners is a regular event hosted by Livable Memphis.
Memphis Flyer Mary Cashiola 2010
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Pizza with the Planners is a regular event hosted by Livable Memphis.
Memphis Flyer Mary Cashiola 2010
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"Planners," he said, "have to schematise things; I just hope to encourage them to grow."
The Commonwealth Today As Seen By A Former Colonial Secretary 1965
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Easterly feels that "Planners" are generally well-intentioned, but fundamentally miss the point and are nonetheless popular perhaps because of a Western fascination of heroes and heroic stories "that stars the rich West in the leading role, that of the chosen people to save the Rest" (p. 18).
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Easterly does acknowledge limitations to this oversimplification of "Planners" and
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A major problem Easterly also sees is that the "Planners" have a modern version of the paternalistic attitude prevalent during colonial times; that the powerful know what is best for the rest, and should try to shape them in their image:
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Others, especially from developing countries, are more cynical than Easterly (perhaps understandably, given that they are the ones who have suffered the long history for centuries at the hands of the Planners 'ancestors), that perhaps today's "Planners" are continuing a time-tested strategy, to keep the developing world in poverty so the "Planners" may continue to dominate.
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Yet others may argue that it is not necessarily these "Planners" actively seek to do this; they may be well-intentioned, but their education, culture, society, whatever, is geared towards perpetuating the existing system, so they cannot think outside of that "framework of orientation" (a term coined by J.W. Smith).
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