Promises Not Kept : Poverty and the Betrayal of Third World Development

by Isbister, John

• ISBN13: 9781565491731
• ISBN10: 1565491734
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-01
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

Updates introductory text with discussion of war on terror. Extensively revised facts and figures. This sixth edition brings discussion of the "new American hegemony" and the war on terror into Isbister's widely used introductory text on the dilemmas of international poverty. The forceful exposition of current concerns weighs the prospects for justice in a globalized world plagued by social inequity. Surveying the history and linakages of the developed and developing worlds, the bookchallenges us to examine our responsibilities for the condition of the Third World.

Author Biography

John Isbister is a professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(6)
A World of Poverty	7	(23)
Five Lives	7	(8)
The Third World	15	(1)
The Extent of World Poverty	16	(7)
The Successes	23	(1)
Different Areas of the Third World Diverge	24	(2)
The Betrayal of Responsibility	26	(4)
Explanations of Underdevelopment	30	(36)
Modernization Theory	32	(9)
Dependency Theory	41	(8)
Marxism	49	(8)
Limitations of These Approaches	57	(1)
Why Does Poverty Persist?	58	(3)
Assessment	61	(2)
The Theories as Worldviews	63	(3)
Imperialism	66	(36)
The Creation of the European Empires	67	(9)
The Causes of Imperialism	76	(5)
The Culture of Imperialism	81	(6)
The Foundations of Third-World Poverty	87	(9)
The Population Explosion	96	(2)
The Legacy of Imperialism	98	(4)
Nationalism and Independence	102	(46)
The Origins of Third-World Nationalism	103	(4)
The Indian Subcontinent	107	(3)
China	110	(4)
Vietnam	114	(5)
Algeria	119	(3)
Muslim and Jewish Nationalism	122	(4)
Islamic Fundamentalism	126	(2)
Sub-Saharan Africa	128	(4)
Latin America	132	(7)
The Nationalist Identity	139	(3)
The Legacy of Nationalism	142	(6)
Economic Development	148	(44)
What Is Economic Development?	149	(5)
Population Control	154	(5)
False Paths to Economic Development	159	(21)
Development in the 1980s: Waylaid by the Debt Crisis	180	(3)
Into a New Century: Rediscovering the Market and Exports	183	(9)
Foreign Policy	192	(37)
The End of the Cold War	193	(1)
Foreign Policy during the Cold War: Globalism	194	(2)
The New American Hegemony	196	(3)
The War on Terrorism	199	(2)
The Illusion of the North-South Dialogue	201	(2)
A Constructive Foreign Policy	203	(3)
Military Spending and Policy	206	(8)
Human Rights Policy	214	(6)
Foreign Economic Policy	220	(6)
Can the Rich Cooperate with the Poor?	226	(3)
The Future: Justice in an Age of Globalization	229	(13)
Globalization	230	(7)
A Hope for Partnership	237	(5)
Bibliography	242	(7)
Acknowledgments	249	(2)
Index	251	(22)
About the Author	273