POL 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Deng Xiaoping, Import Substitution Industrialization, Mao Zedong
18 Apr 2016
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Lecture 11: politics and development in the world"s poorer countries. Less than 1/6 of the people in the world live in high income countries like canada and the united states. The remaining 5/6 have a per capita income less than half that of canada. The political problems that many third world countries face are not all of their own making. To a considerable extent, they are a product of a history of domination and exploitation. The control and colonization of most of the world by the european powers often left third world countries ill-prepared for governing after becoming independent. The cold war, and more recently concerns about international terrorism, have kept powerful countries intervening in the politics of the third world. Terms such as developing countries, less developed countries, or underdeveloped countries are often used to describe third world countries, but they raise several questions: what does.
