Promises Not Kept: Poverty and the Betrayal of Third World Development, 7th edition

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	2006/273 pages/LC: 2006011625 A Kumarian Press Book

• Introduction.
• A WORLD OF POVERTY.
• Five Lives.
• The Third World.
• The Extent of World Poverty.
• The Successes.
• Different Areas of the Third World Diverge.
• The Betrayal of Responsibility.
• EXPLANATIONS OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT.
• Modernization Theory.
• Dependency Theory.
• Marxism.
• Limitations of These Approaches.
• Why Does Poverty Persist?
• Assessment.
• The Theories as Worldviews.
• IMPERIALISM.
• The Creation of the European Empires.
• The Causes of Imperialism.
• The Culture of Imperialism.
• The Foundations of Third World Poverty.
• The Population Explosion.
• The Legacy of Imperialism.
• NATIONALISM AND INDEPENDENCE.
• The Origins of Third World Nationalism.
• The Indian Subcontinent.
• China.
• Vietnam.
• Algeria.
• Muslim and Jewish Nationalism.
• Islamic Fundamentalism.
• Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Latin America.
• The Nationalist Identity.
• The Legacy of Nationalism.
• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
• What Is Economic Development?
• Population Control.
• False Paths to Economic Development.
• Development in the 1980s: Waylaid by the Debt Crisis.
• Into a New Century: Rediscovering the Market and Exports.
• FOREIGN POLICY.
• The End of the Cold War.
• Foreign Policy During the Cold War: Globalism.
• The New American Hegemony.
• The War on Terrorism.
• The Illusion of the North-South Dialogue.
• A Constructive Foreign Policy.
• Military Spending and Policy.
• Human-Rights Policy.
• Foreign Economic Policy.
• Can the Rich Cooperate with the Poor?
• THE FUTURE: JUSTICE IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION.
• Globalization.
• A Hope for Partnership.