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The Development of Underdevelopment
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For example, this article pointed out that most of our theoretical categories and guides to development policy have been distilled exclusively from the historical experience of the European and North American advanced capitalist nations, and that most historians study only the developed metropolitan countries and pay scant attention to the colonial and underdeveloped lands.Abstract:
We cannot hope to formulate adequate development theory and policy for the majority of the world's population who suffer from underdevelopment without first learning how their past economic and social history gave rise to their present underdevelopment. Yet most historians study only the developed metropolitan countries and pay scant attention to the colonial and underdeveloped lands. For this reason most of our theoretical categories and guides to development policy have been distilled exclusively from the historical experience of the European and North American advanced capitalist nations.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.read more
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The newly industrializing countries and radical theories of development
TL;DR: The failure of the neo-Marxist dependency perspectives to accommodate and come to terms with the possibilities of peripheral capitalist development in the four Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs) of East and Southeast Asia should not then result in the embracing of the stages approaches espoused either by modernization theory or by Warren.
The ‘Brain Drain’ Academic and Skilled Migration to the UK and its Impacts on Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the Association of University Teachers and the College and Lecturers Union NATFHE jointly commissioned research to review some of the literature on the Brain Drain with a specific emphasis on developing countries in Africa and on academic labour in the UK.
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Urban development and death: Bombay City, 1870-1914.
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Evolución de los paradigmas y modelos interpretativos del desarrollo territorial
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