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Caribbean Journal of Education

The Politics of Development in the Caribbean and Africa - The Issue of Cultural Identity

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23-34
Publication Date: 
March 2001
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Let us start with a simple question: What is development? For our purposes, development equals modernization minus dependency. As the new century unfolds, globalization emerges as a stage in modernization. Modernization is the pursuit of efficiency, cost effectiveness, and wider participation. But if development equals mondernization minus dependency, how do we reduce dependency?

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