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- Title: Social Policy in the Third World
- Author : Stewart MacPherson
- Release Date : January 01, 1983
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2015 KB
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For the generation of structural underdevelopment, more important still than the drain of economic surplus from the satellite after its incorporation as such into the world capitalist system, is the impregnation of the satellite’s domestic economy with the same capitalist structure and its fundamental contradictions. (Frank, 1967:10)
Debate on the nature of development, explanations of the failure of efforts to achieve it, and of the likelihood of alternative strategies succeeding has taken much energy and produced a mountain of books, reports, articles and conference papers. This may indicate many things, but one thing it most certainly demonstrates is the crucial importance, however hidden this may seem at times, of the major questions in the analysis of development. It is not possible here to examine these in detail, only the outlines of the debate will be sketched. Furthermore, it will become clear that later discussion of more specific social policy issues leans heavily on particular theoretical positions outlined here; although the term ‘underdevelopment theory’ suggests a unity of approach which denies real and important differences. For the purposes of the present study such a distinction is justifiable in so far as it allows a more or less consistent treatment of issues and the possibility of dealing with the problem of social policy as a dynamic in the contemporary of change in the countries of the Third World.
It is only relatively recently that the Third World has emerged as a real force. Until well into the twentieth century it was either literally subject to the capitalist system dominated by the Western industrial nations, or seen as irrelevant. In population terms, the Third World not only contains the majority of the world’s population, but is growing the fastest. In economic terms, it has the greatest share of labour power, and by far the largest future markets. Politically, and despite the empty nature of many victories gained at the United Nations and elsewhere, it is now a real force, particularly so when it can affect the balance between the First and Second Worlds.
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