Suchergebnisse

Aus sowjetischer Sicht + Aus Sicht lateinamerikanischer Länder

The proposed New International Economic Order (NIEO) supported by many nations has been defended not as charity, but rather, as repayment of the debts of prosperous nations to impoverished ones. Whether Western prosperity is based on exploitation of non-Western nations appears questionable, since those nations with closest trading relations with Western nations are also generally most prosperous. Explanations for low prosperity can be found partly in the lack of trade, partly in the lack of public willingness to take up or seek economic activities in some nations, & partly in the policies of Third World governments, including discrimination against successful minorities & forcible economic collectivization. The concept of `the Third World' as economically homogeneous is, in fact, misleading, especially since statistics from the countries it includes show great diversity & can be expected to have little relation to actualities in any case. Foreign aid represents a transfer of capital to peoples who cannot use it efficiently, & still worse, to governments which use it to gain greater control over their populations, through a variety of authoritarian measures. Many proposed measures, eg, commodity price supports, would, in fact, benefit fairly well-off nations at the expense of truly poor ones. The NIEO could only be maintained through worldwide authoritarian government for an indefinite period. W. H. Stoddard.