A person who believes in or advocates for development as a social, economic, or political philosophy, particularly regarding growth and progress.
From development + -arian (suffix indicating adherence to a doctrine or belief system), a rare academic or political term.
This fancy word mostly appears in academic critiques of 'developmentarianism'—the assumption that all societies should follow the same path to industrialization and modernization that Western nations took.
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