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Explain the necessary conditions of take-off and subsequent stages of development of a nation as propounded by Rostow.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Models, Theories and Laws

W. W. Rostow's The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1960) is the best-known non-spatial model of development, built on the industrial histories of Western Europe and North America.

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  • Necessary Conditions of Take-off
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