However, given its Western origins, it is possible to see this expansion of a doctrine of human rights as yet another form cultural colonialism justified,as colonialism itself often was, as a part of a supposedly progressive 'civilizing' process. This brings us back into key debates about the very notion of development' (see the Introduction and Chapter 3). Some have argued that the whole notion of development is an invention of the rich minority of largely Western nations used to force the poor majority to follow a pre-given and prescribed trajectory of economic growth and modernization that is often unsuited to their actual needs. In Latouche's(1993: 160) words, "development has been and still is the Westernization of the world'. Escobar(in Peet, 1997: 76) argues that