THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES ST. AUGUSTINE DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES GOVT 2060 – INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THEORIES & APPROACHES COURSE OUTLINE SEMESTER I – 2011/2012 Lecturer (Day) : Dr. Indira Rampersad (indira.rampersad1@sta.uwi.edu) Lecturer (Evening) : Ms. Priya Marajh (priya_marajh@yahoo.com Lectures (Day) : Tuesdays‚ 1:00pm-4:00pm (Eng LT 1) Lectures (Eve) : Wednesdays‚ 5:00pm-8:00pm
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refocus their societies and economies towards real competitive engagement with the global political economy.” Critique this statement within the confines of either a dependency theory or Marxist theory. This essay seeks to critically assess the above statement within the confines of a dependency theory. The essay will show that dependency theory does not make room for the reformation or refocusing of Caribbean economies or societies through globalization and that globalization is more an intensification
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believe that government control inhibits growth as it encourages corruption‚ inefficiency and offers no profit motive for entrepreneurship. Underdevelopment is seen as the result of government inefficient use of resources and state intervention in markets through the regulation of prices. Thus‚ they argue that since government intervention is the root of underdevelopment in LDCs themselves‚ and only when they use supply-side policies are free up markets will growth and development occur. This shifts the
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Developing countries have been targeted as being powerless in the current globalizing (micro) world of political domination by authoritarian approaches. The dependency/world system theories appears to be at work‚ where the developing countries are powerless or vulnerable allowing them to be dependent on advanced technologies‚ policies and ideas from their hegemony for economic growth and development as well as political survival. According to Amartya Sen‚ development is the process of economic‚ technological
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existence of a chronic state of “underdevelopment” is not only a question of economics or the simple quantitative measures of income‚ employment and gini-coefficient.Underdevelopment is a real fact of life for two billion people of the world- a state of mind as far as a state of national poverty. Gaulet (1971) poignantly describes under development as a shocking; the squalor‚ disease‚ unnecessary deaths and hopelessness of it all. The condition of underdevelopment in its totality is thus a consciously
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Sociology of development P.T. Robbins SC3055‚ 2790055 2011 Undergraduate study in Economics‚ Management‚ Finance and the Social Sciences This is an extract from a subject guide for an undergraduate course offered as part of the University of London International Programmes in Economics‚ Management‚ Finance and the Social Sciences. Materials for these programmes are developed by academics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). For more information‚ see: www.londoninternational
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unit in the agricultural sector. 3. Rapid Population Growth Rate and High Dependency Ratio: High population growth rate is also an indicator of underdevelopment. India’s population growth rate was 1.93% per annum and 21.34 % per decade during 1991-2001‚ which is still very high as compared to developed economies. Dependency ratio refers to ratio of dependent population (non-working) to total population. In India dependency ratio is around 60% which is very high. This is because of high birth rate
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things they have reason to value.” According to Philani Hlophe Dhlamini‚ While the Modernization and Dependency theories identify conflicting causes for the under-development of the Third World‚ they equally suggest competing solutions for the development of the same. Identification of the causes of ‘underdevelopment’ in the Third World are found in both the Modernization Theory and the Dependency Theory. Both theories contrast
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its objectives because of mismanagement associated with the lack of proper planning‚ lack of understanding and acceptance of some policies of African socialism‚ bureaucracy created contradictions‚ problems and poverty‚ inequality‚ non democratic‚ dependency increased. African socialism is the ideology with the belief of sharing economic resources in African traditional way. African socialism can be considered as the response to the colonization. This means that African socialism was the condemnation
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territories - edited by Gopal K. Bhargava‚ Shankarlal C. Bhatt 3. http://infochangeindia.org/defining-development/theories-of-development-modernisation-vs-dependency.html‚ 4. http://www.meghalaya-info.in/history-of-meghalaya/ 5. Vincent Ferraro‚ "Dependency Theory: An Introduction‚" in The Development Economics Reader‚ ed. Giorgio Secondi (London: Routledge‚ 2008)‚ pp. 58-64
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