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Development: Problems and Constraints

In: Comparative Political Economy of East and South Asia

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  • R. C. Mascarenhas

    (Victoria University of Wellington)

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The emergence from colonialism to independence after World War II of several Asian, African and Latin American countries drew the attention of academics and policy-makers to significant gaps in the knowledge and understanding of these countries and led to a concerted effort to study them, their economy, polity, society and culture. Such studies revealed the chasm between them and other countries that, over a period of time, had exploited opportunities and resources and moved ahead in the economic and political spheres, achieving a developed status. The measures adopted for comparison were economic indicators like gross national product or equivalent levels of growth, level of political development, technology and modernization of society. Assuming a desire on the part of the newly independent countries to aspire to that ‘developed’ status, such studies focused on possible paths to guide these countries towards that goal.

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  • R. C. Mascarenhas, 1999. "Development: Problems and Constraints," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Comparative Political Economy of East and South Asia, chapter 2, pages 13-25, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-98353-9_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333983539_2
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