Is the very idea of "economic development" racist?

[phk]

Is the very idea of "economic development" racist?

http://blogs.nyu.edu/fas/dri/aidwatch/2009/09/how_the_british_invented_devel.html

Of all the first-world institutions that were influencing poorer countries during those times fifty years ago, I'd think that the international development community was one of the less racist.

[Beet]

This is just William Easterly outdoing William Easterly. If you want to know what he has to say that's actually meaningful, read his book.

Amartya Sen has praised Easterly for analysis of the problems of foreign aid, but criticized his sweeping debarment of all plans, lacking the due distinctions between different types of problems, and not giving the aid institutions credit for understanding the points he's making