Essay --

Theories of development have been motivated by the need to explain mass poverty. Interest in development issues is of earlier recent origin, dating back not much earlier than the cardinal fifties and early on sixties. As represented by their more authoritative proponents, the development teachs of thought reflect roughly the following chronological align of appearanModernisation Theory 1950s-1960sModernisation emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s it was constructed from a newly profound position that was taken by America in terms of its international hegemony based on the touch to eradicate social problems faced by poor countries. However in the late 1960s there was an involvement of the US in Vietnam receivable to modernisation programs that failed. This led to the emergence of a Marxist dependency school that aimed to challenge modernisation school. The battle between dependency and modernisation possibleness emerged and it later became subside. This left the developm ent of the third world to be less(prenominal) emotional and ideological. However the main focus of modernisation is attributed from the...