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Discuss the Third World perspective on the causes and cures of underdevelopment.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Evolution of the International Economic System

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Modernisation theory, classically Walt Whitman Rostow's The Stages of Economic Growth (1960), treated underdevelopment as an original condition that every society outgrows by following the West. The Third World perspective reverses this: underdevelopment is produced by a relationship, colonial and then neo-colonial, so its cure lies in changing that relationship and the state's place in…

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  • Causes
  • External and historical
  • Internal, but colonially shaped
  • Cures
  • Assessment
  • Conclusion
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