The idea of development has never belonged exclusively to the domain of the domestic politics. The famous Keynes– White debate, which structured much of the post- war global order, was in fact about ideas, policy mechanisms, and the processes through which ‗development‘ could be brought about. Since then, there have been a large number of interrogations of all three: the idea, policy, and processes of ‗development‘. However, time–space constraints preclude any detailed discussion of this thread of a rather rich literature. Suffice it to note that global political economy, until the 1980s, precluded any serious policy engagement across ideological as also systemic divides on this issue.