Date of Award

1-1-2000

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Department

Department of Southeast Asian Studies

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

As the title suggests, this research study focuses on the application of one of the components of official development aid, development finance, towards the construction and development of roads in Malaysia and Uganda in the period 1960 - 1999. When development studies emerged in the 1950s and 1960s its main attachment was that development in the Third World (especially in the newly independent developing countries) should be sponsored as an industry based process of structural transformation aided by inflows of resources from developed countries (Corbridge, 1993 : 98). Until now, this belief has largely retrained unchanged although it has been attacked from both the right and left. The attack from the right has focused on modifying it, easing the conditionalities attached, solving the debt crisis, issues related to utility, efficacy and to be applied as a short-term measure for the Third World's development. Yet the attack from the left has been launched by those against the idea of utilizing external assistance to promote development. This group includes authors like Bauer (1993) and Cheru (1989) and the advocates of the dependency approach like Samir Amin, Raul Prebisch and Theotonio Dos Santos (Blomstrom and Hettne, 1984).

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Dissertation (M.A) -- Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, 2000.

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