East Asian Miracle and Neo-Liberal View of Development

The East Asian Miracle has been an important theme in contemporary literature on development. There are wide range of efforts on the part of academicians, policy makers and politicians to universalise the experiences of East Asian Model of Development . A key approach to the East Asian development as illustrated by the World Bank’s and … Read more

Wallerstien and Samir Amin on Under Development

World-System theory of Wallerstien based on the assumption that a particular country’s internal development may only be understood with reference to the position it occupies, or the role it plays, in the modern world system as a whole. He traced the historical development of capitalism, by focusing on the insurgence and functioning of an international … Read more

Dependency Theorists on Development and Underdevelopment

The important group of theories within the Marxist framework is those of the neo-Marxists such as A.G.Frank, Wallerstein and Samir Amin. By the late sixties, the US led mission to modernise the Third World and guide it towards liberal capitalist democracy was increasingly challenged by economic nationalism in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Under these … Read more

Marxist Notion of Development and Social Change

The basic premises of the Marxist conception of development have their roots in Marx’s analysis of capitalist mode of production in the West, and its consequences in the former colonial countries. Marxist analysis of social change and development has faith in the principle that actual working of any development strategy is fundamentally influenced by the … Read more