The development practitioner must understand that the fundamental claim of capitalism, globalization, science, and technology is a lie: they cannot save. Saving is not within their power. Economic growth, modern medicine, agriculture, water development, and the technologies that support them are tools, provisions of a good God. We must use them sensitively and appropriately. They can enhance life and make people more productive. But they do not save. “The unshakable hope the 1960s placed in development and freedom and expressed in the liberation projects of the 1970s has evaporated…. Latin
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