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Social Change, a journal that has a publishing history of 47 years, has always strived to create a platform for scholars, researchers and practitioners to debate and discuss issues of pivotal importance to the social science discipline. As part of this initiative, we invited Professor Pulin B. Nayak, former Director of the Delhi School of Economics and Professor Vibhuti Patel associated with the Centre for Women's Studies, TISS Mumbai, to comment on the seminal paper presented by Professor M.A. Oommen, entitled ‘The Meaning of Development: Reflections of an Octogenarian Teacher of Economics’. Though the paper was published in Social Change in 2012 it still draws thoughtful comments from those connected with the discipline of Economics. The original paper can be accessed from the SAGE website through the following link http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0049085712454051?journalCode=scha

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The Nature of Economic Development

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