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Celso Furtado

Ana Luiza Cortez

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Asked to define underdevelopment, Celso Furtado replied in his characteristically north-eastern Brazilian accent: “There is no need to define underdevelopment; just go out and look; that is underdevelopment!” Yet, his greatest contribution to development thought was a thorough understanding of underdevelopment and its determinants.

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Asked to define underdevelopment, Celso Furtado replied in his characteristically north-eastern Brazilian accent: “There is no need to define underdevelopment; just go out and look; that is underdevelopment!” Yet, his greatest contribution to development thought was a thorough understanding of underdevelopment and its determinants.

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Asked to define underdevelopment, Celso Furtado replied in his characteristically north-eastern Brazilian accent: “There is no need to define underdevelopment; just go out and look; that is underdevelopment!” Yet, his greatest contribution to development thought was a thorough understanding of underdevelopment and its determinants.

Key concepts: Underdevelopment, Stress (linguistics), Sociology, Political science, Philosophy, Law, Linguistics

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