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'What Is Happening Today Is Development in Reverse'
Original: ‘What Is Happening Today Is Development in Reverse’
A headline carried by Foreign Policy asserts that current events amount to 'development in reverse' — a reversal of decades of economic and social progress. The phrase frames present-day destruction or regression as undoing hard-won gains rather than building on them. The statement is drawing attention amid ongoing debates about conflict and its cost to development, particularly in the Middle East.
Why now: It captures growing concern that wars and crises in the Middle East are destroying development gains rather than advancing them.
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- ‘What Is Happening Today Is Development in Reverse’ · foreignpolicy.com
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