Unit 11: Approaches to Development

Overview:

In the post-World War II period, the process of decolonialisation started getting momentum. This led to the emergence of newly liberated nation states. The need for economic reconstruction of the newly liberated nationstates, and the shadow of the Cold War widely shaped the development discourse till the late 1970s. During this period, the world became divided into two hemispheres in terms of their levels of development. On the one hand were the industrial and politically developed nations of the West and Southern Europe and North America and Russia and communist states and on the other were the vast number of nations of the Third World with low productivity, industrial backwardness and poverty. These third world nations were for a long time under colonial bondage. This gave rise to the First, Second and developing world models of development respectively, popularly labelled as the Capitalist, the Socialist and the developing world models which dominated the development discourse for a long time.
 

Suggested Reading:

Webster A. (1990) Introduction to the Sociology of Development. Hongkong, McMillan Education Ltd.

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