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Using the Department for International Development's recent White Paper on
Development as a case study, this article critically reassesses Escobar's n
otion of development discourse. Rather than being monolithic and static, as
Escobar and others have implied, the writers argue that changes can and do
take place within development organizations. Not only does the White Paper
clearly signal a new direction in policy; it also results both from change
s within DFID- in personnel and in the balance of power between interest gr
oups - and between DFID and civil society.