Zehn Thesen über die Stärken und Schwächen des soziokulturellen Ansatzes in der Entwicklungspolitik

Kohnert, Dirk (1983): Zehn Thesen über die Stärken und Schwächen des soziokulturellen Ansatzes in der Entwicklungspolitik. Published in: Loccumer Protokolle , Vol. 27, No. 1983 : pp. 25-32.

Abstract

Giving priority to the socio-cultural approach in development planning would increase rather than alleviate poverty and exploitation in Third World countries. Poverty is mainly due to a lack of resources (class specific) and to unequal power relations, not to imposed western consumption patterns. Value systems can only be understood in terms of their historical development, i.e. they have grown in response to and in interaction with material processes of civilisation and social differentiation. It is only by analysing this process of socio-structural differentiation that the real needs of the poor in the Third World can be identified and taken into account.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Ten theses on the strengths and weaknesses of the socio-cultural approach in development policy
• Language: German
• Keywords: Development Planning; Development Aid; ODA; Third World; Sub-Sahahran Africa; socio-cultural development; poverty; civilization;socio-economic differentiation
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy > F53 - International Agreements and Observance ; International Organizations; F - International Economics > F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy > F54 - Colonialism ; Imperialism ; Postcolonialism; N - Economic History > N4 - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation > N47 - Africa ; Oceania; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O2 - Development Planning and Policy

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