The Third World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Third World write by Alan B. Mountjoy. This book was released on 1978. The Third World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Understanding Third World Politics
Understanding Third World Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Third World Politics write by Brian Clive Smith. This book was released on 2003. Understanding Third World Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Praise for the first edition: "... this masterful and concise volume overviews the range of approaches social scientists have applied to explain events in the Third World." --Journal of Developing Areas Understanding Third World Politics is a comprehensive, critical introduction to political development and comparative politics in the non-Western world today. Beginning with an assessment of the shared factors that seem to determine underdevelopment, B. C. Smith introduces the major theories of development--development theory, modernization theory, neo-colonialism, and dependency theory--and examines the role and character of key political organizations, political parties, and the military in determining the fate of developing nations. This new edition gives special attention to the problems and challenges faced by developing nations as they become democratic states by addressing questions of political legitimacy, consensus building, religion, ethnicity, and class.
Inside the Third World
Inside the Third World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside the Third World write by Paul Harrison. This book was released on 1990. Inside the Third World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "With a revised overview"--Cover.
Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion
Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion write by Péter Tamás Bauer. This book was released on 1981. Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even in impoverished countries lacking material and human resources, P. T. Bauer argues, economic growth is possible under the right conditions. These include a certain amount of thrift and enterprise among the people, social mores and traditions which sustain them, and a firm but limited government which permits market forces to work. Challenging many views about development that are widely held, Bauer takes on squarely the notion that egalitarianism is an appropriate goal. He goes on to argue that the population explosion of less-developed countries has on the whole been a voluntary phenomenon and that each new generation has lived better than its forebears. He also critically examines the notion that the policies and practices of Western nations have been responsible for third world poverty. In a major chapter, he reviews the rationalizations for foreign aid and finds them weak; while in another he shows that powerful political clienteles have developed in the Western nations supporting the foreign aid process and probably benefiting more from it than the alleged recipients. Another chapter explores the link between the issue of Special Drawing Rights by the International Monetary Fund on the one hand and the aid process on the other. Throughout the book, Bauer carefully examines the evidence and the light it throws on the propositions of development. Although the results of his analysis contradict the conventional wisdom of development economics, anyone who is seriously concerned with the subject must take them into account.
The Third World
The Third World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Third World write by Peter Worsley. This book was released on 1977-12. The Third World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today the colonial empires of the world are shrinking, and the new nations which have emerged from the colonial past are rapidly developing into an important force in international affairs--the "third world." They are faced by a common problem, the urgent necessity to transform a peasant society into a modern industrial economy, and they are united by a common outlook, absolute opposition to all forms of colonialism and neocolonialism. In this work Peter Worsley analyzes the unique political forms that have evolved as a result of these two basic conditions. In his view the third world has rejected both of the great ideologies of today. Their new solutions are unique in world history, being based on populism, socialism, and, often, the one-party state, which, although anathema to the Western liberal, is a natural development in societies united by the common enemy of colonialism. "No one seriously concerned with the greatest problem of our time, the division of the world between the developed, industrialized, 'affluent' countries and les nations prolétaires, can afford to miss this book. . . . Professor Worsley has succeeded in giving us more solid information about underdeveloped parts of the world than can be found in any other book of comparable length."--The Times Literary Supplement "Peter Worsley . . . has written an excellent descriptive analysis of the evolution and present state of a third force in world politics. Africa, Asia, and the Middle East have . . . given society not only a new philosophy with new goals but charismatic philosophers who have the potential to make the philosophy of the third world a vital presence to be reckoned with. . . . a brilliant book."--Peter Schwab, Journal of Modern African Studies
