# Development Planning and Postcolonial Institutions

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Lewis combined theory with advising governments, leading the University of the West Indies, and founding the Caribbean Development Bank. He stressed that development is not merely applied neoclassical economics: political, social, historical, and cultural conditions matter. His career linked structural transformation to education, administration, trade, finance, and institutional autonomy.