The Politics of Modernization and the Misleading Approaches to Development

This article deconstructs the theory of modernization and argues that the theory is a political propaganda to mislead the people of Third World countries; the social transformation the theory advocates is not for the development of Third World countries. Instead, modernization is actually gradually...

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Veröffentlicht in:World Review of Political Economy. - Pluto Journals. - 7(2016), 2, Seite 285-312
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Veröffentlicht: 2016
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:World Review of Political Economy
Schlagworte:politics of modernization misleading notions of development destruction of local productive capacity Third World countries Uganda Social sciences Economics