The relationship between culture, values and development?

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What is the relationship between culture, values and economic development?

Organisations involved in supporting the development of systems and infrastructure in lower income countries have for long realised that changing hearts and minds is a critical part of the reform process. But many have not realised that simply transplanting market-based approaches to human resource management to traditional societies may not work since HR systems themselves make certain cultural and value judgements.
In short what is often called the 'soft stuff' in development is really the hard stuff. OpenCities director Marc Stephens discusses his experience working in the Libyan public financial sector.

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