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Showing 1 to 20 of 149 for “"Underdevelopment"”.
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Neo-Marxism, development and underdevelopment
… of neo-Marxist theories of development and underdevelopment; and secondly, it attempts in a brief case study to demonstrate that a neo-Marxist approach can be fruitfully applied to a study of development and underdevelopment in South Africa. By "neo-Marxism" the writer means that body of …
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Social Underdevelopment In Sub-saharan Africa
For the past thirty years Africa has produced a more noticeably inferior reserve of human capital than other developing regions. This is puzzling because at the inception of independence, the future of Africa looked promising. However, during the 1970s both the political and economic situation in …
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From empire to dependence: the evolution of Turkish underdevelopment
… in the First World has meant capitalist underdevelopment in the Third World. A large theoretical and empirical literature on imperialism and underdevelopment now exists. But with a few notable exceptions this literature has not stimulated a systematic and scholarly reinterpretation of …
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Amid the debris: ruins of underdevelopment in contemporary Brazilian documentary
… argues that the ruins of Brazil are the ruins of underdevelopment, as framed by this particular body of films.
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The Famished Road: Oil Dependency and Socioeconomic Underdevelopment in the Niger Delta
<p>This thesis examines the social and political relationships between indigenous communities within the Nigerian Delta region and the Federal government regarding the management of petroleum resources and its implication for the general socioeconomic development of the Nigerian State. It …
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The anatomy of underdevelopment: implications for social work training in South Africa
Interest in this particular subject grew out of my own personal background and the professional experiences I accumulated since qualifying in 1970 with a first degree (in Social Work) at the University of the Western Cape.
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Trade and foreign investment as forces behind the underdevelopment of Central America
… needs to be understood is that the problem of underdevelopment is only partly indigenous, and to a large degree quite recent. This thesis will look at both external and internal actors, acting independently as well as in alliance, in order to explain their role in underdeveloping the region. I …
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Post-War African Studies, Underdevelopment, and the French and British New Lefts, 1953-1993
This thesis challenges the notion that thinkers associated with the French and British New Lefts were solely concerned with elaborating a “Western Marxism”. It does so by reconstructing the important role sociological and economic analyses of sub-Saharan Africa played in shaping the sociological …
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Telecommunications and underdevelopment: a policy analysis of the historical role of Cable and Wireless in the Caribbean
The foundation structures for telecommunications in the English-speaking Caribbean were laid during the period of direct colonial control of the region by Britain. They formed part of the global communications network of a large empire requiring quick and efficient links with a remote imperial …
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Development, underdevelopment and the reproduction of the individual private sector of agriculture in the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.
… sector of the economy and the outcome of underdevelopment. More specifically, the study examines the theoretical basis of socialist transformation embedded in Marxist theory of development, and the way this has contributed to the perception of the agrarian structure in post-war Yugoslavia. …
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Human Development as Integral Development: The Social Teaching of the Church in an African Context
It has been commonly held that the main cause of underdevelopment is the lack of capital. This dissertation is based on the observation that underdevelopment still persists in Kenya despite billions of dollars in foreign aid from Western Europe and North America. The main focus of this dissertation …
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A chronicle of dependence : Cuba from the rise of sugar until the failure of the ten million ton Zafra of 1970
… has much to offer as a vehicle for explaining underdevelopment and development in the periphery (Third World), this study uses the dependency approach as the theoretical framework in an examination of Cuba's pre-revolutionary condition of underdevelopment and dependency, and the socialist path …
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Regional Unequal Development: The Case of The Amazon Region, 1880-1960
… dissertation is to analyze the development and underdevelopment of the Amazon Region in the period 1880-1960 through a historical perspective.
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The impact of reform of the coffee industry in Kenya on small and large farmers.
Underdevelopment is a major problem facing many developing countries around the world. Market mechanisms have increasingly been employed in an attempt to overcome the problem of underdevelopment such as low growth and poverty; however the implementation of market centred policies has raised other …
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Towards a regional development strategy for Namaqualand
… this study analyses the causes and extent of underdevelopment and poverty in Namaqualand and outlines a possible approach to redress these problems. Namaqualand is shown to be a sparsely populated area, the physical characteristics of which are both a fundamental cause of underdevelopment and …
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Crisis at the crossroads: the conjuncture of internal and external impediments to development in Sudan
… debate surrounding contemporary African underdevelopment attempts to classify or label the impediments to development primarily within an internal-external dichotomy. This thesis questions the internal-external approach in that it may limit the opportunity to examine the situation more in …
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CONTEMPORARY SHARI'AH STRUCTURING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF WAQF ASSETS IN SINGAPORE
… However, of late there has been a pervasive underdevelopment of waqf assets in the world (Kahf, 1998; Kuran, 2004). One of the reasons cited by Kuran for this underdevelopment is the issue of perpetuity and the inalienability inherent in the features of waqf ( 2004). The other reason, as …
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Property Rights as a Precondition to Development: A Case Study of Jamaica
… between the absence of property rights and underdevelopment; and</p><p> 3. explore how the current international and local Jamaican policy environment is positioned to address an absence of property rights.</p><p> This research confirms that there is a significant proportion of Jamaicans who …
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The Contextual Effect of Dependency on Economic Growth and Sectoral Inequality: A Cross-National Study Toward an Integration of Internal and External Factors in Third World Development
Internal causes of national underdevelopment drawn from contending arguments are not necessarily contradictory of, but rather complementary to, the external causes of underdevelopment highlighted by the dependency/world-system theory. These internal causes could be integrated into quantitative …
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