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Goulet, D. and Hudson, M. (1971) The Myth of Aid; the Hidden Agenda of the Development Reports. Center for the Study of Development and Social Change, New York.

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• TITLE: International Development’s Hidden Agenda: Towards a Latent Modernization of “Traditional” Societies

  AUTHORS: Juan David Gómez-Quintero, Chaime Marcuello-Servós, Maria Luisa Sierra Huedo

  KEYWORDS: Colombia, Hidden Agenda, Development, Modern Society, “Traditional” Society

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Access Library Journal, Vol.1 No.8, November 12, 2014

  ABSTRACT: This paper examines the existence of a hidden agenda in international development i.e. a group of latent ideas to promote social change in “traditional” societies. The arguments to support and analyse this proposal come from empirical work during several years and places, with special emphasis in Colombian ethnic minorities who receive aid from European agencies. This main idea focuses in three areas that are the part of the development projects: gender equality, environmental awareness and economic rationality. The transmission of a hidden agenda does not correspond to any explicit intention of the foreign aid actors, but to the empowerment of modern logic as the only possible way to establish “adequate” social changes.