PO220 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Webct, Dependency Theory, Good Governance
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Context: begin with newly independent countries in the 50s and 60s and thought through by american scholars. There was a concern that these free, sovereign states will cause a vacuum of demands. Marshall plan huge implement on development thinking because europe was successfully rebuilt within a few years with economic measures from the west. Development was considered to be a straightforward process. Cold war west was worried that newly independent nations would align themselves with the communist wave. It was believed that poverty fostered radical ideas; it therefore needed to be fought in order to create a stable middle class, far away from communism. They did not have to figure out how to devise a structured plan. Development = passage from traditional to modern society. Economists believed that the factors applied to the developed world could be applied to developing world and work. They saw that there was an equality of opportunities.
