The good news is that there has been real progress in development policy, and, beneath the doctrinal differences, is a certain convergence – not on what works, but on how we should think about and do development policy. The best of the recent work in the two traditions shares common predilections.
好消息是，在发展政策方面已经取得了世纪进步，而且在意识形态不同的背后也存在一定程度的趋同——不是关于什么才是有用的，而是关于我们应该怎样看待发展政策。两种传统的最佳新近成果所指向的预期是相同的，均赞成诊断式、实用性、实验性、具体环境具体分析的策略。