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What Leads to Modernisation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Rodolfo N. Salcedo
Affiliation:
College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana

Extract

More and more countries wish to become modernised. Some have less and want more; others have more and are willing to help. Under these conditions, putting ‘western’ aid to work for development should be easy. But, evidently, it has not been. A nation — like an individual — that both recognises the need for help and strives to maintain an identity, finds it difficult to accept foreign aid without reservation. The questions, ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Where am I going?’, concerning national identity and national goals, are still serious issues in development.

Type
Africana
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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