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| Issues in Development and Underdevelopment: A Theoretical Discourse and Paradigm |
Cinjel Nandes Dickson (PhD), Abubakar Lawan, Orluchukwu Godwin
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Abstract:
This study attempted to asses various issues and challenges in conceptualizing development and underdevelopment. The two concepts for long were subjected to a lot of profound emotionalism and accumulated bias. Our attempt is to fill the gap by presenting and providing an explicit and dialectic clarification between the concepts. To be able to provide holistic clarification between the concepts, we define and describe development and underdevelopment within the socio-economic context of the society. A conclusion was drawn that development and underdevelopment are probably not the concepts to be defined and measured using only the indices of western countries. They are not binary phenomenon but a fusion of variables that need deep epistemological explication .It was recommended that, there is the need for further research on the concepts in line with the dynamic of socio-cultural complexities of an evolving society
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