PO220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Liberal Democracy, World Bank, Neocolonialism
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Major theoretical concepts put into affect by governments and agencies, used by policy advisors, etc. There are strong impacts that happened as a consequence of these theoretical approaches: modernization theory, context, key arguments. Modernization theory post ww2 concept, this was the lead framework for understanding development in the global south and what countries like us (western capitalist) countries ought to be doing. 40s 60s across africa and asia many countries that had been colonies were becoming independent. Us strong advocate for independence for countries in asia/africa. Western europe decimated by the war, marshall plan created with a lot of us support so that. Europe could rebuild quickly and get back on track. Marshall plan seen as a good outline for how to help countries far behind in economic development. This was the height of the cold war. Poverty makes groups of people susceptible to communist ideology.