GS101 Lecture Notes - Group Of 77, Walt Whitman Rostow, Dependency Theory
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The people in the congo are being slaughtered, yet in the west, we have a blind eye. The long decolonization (1947-1980): colonial reticence; cold war; and strength of the. Residual colonialism: in 2012 the united nations considered 16 territories with approximately. The cold war and the discovery of development. Truman"s four point speech in 1948: support un, reconstruct europe; protect allies against. Fourth; create new bold program to help underdeveloped, poor countries us embarked ecological development after the cold war. Modernization theory (us and britain: savings, investment, and industry need to channel resources and create a larger class difference, some will invest resources that create a cycle of development. Rostows stages of growth: traditional society preconditions for take-off take-off---drive maturity high-mass. Consumption: rostow says this process occurred in americas and europe and should be put into action in africa. Latin american structuralism (raul prebisch: primary commodity dependence or terms-of-trade, terms-of-trade: relationship between imports and exports.