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Social development: a dubious proposition?


 Contrary to Western economic ideas, which are accepted virtually everywhere in the world, western ideas of social development have not been accepted by many developing countries who perceive those ideas as too alien, too befitting of rich countries, to be adopted. There is a general apprehension that Western interest will amount to interference in the internal affairs of newly independent countries. One barrier may results from the difference between rich and developing countries seen not as a matter of technology, material wealth, and power, but rather as a matter of socio-cultural asymmetry. Concern with social development is an exclusively Western complex: a product of historical growth complete with an underpinning philosophie vecue or life style. Third World governments are often aware that socio-cultural matters are fully specific to their own situation and beyond the relevancy of allegedly general Western models. There is an expedient effect in a Third World country adopting Western style social models or policies, but those policies fail to address questions of poverty, disease, and ignorance. Development relates to society as a whole. One implication is that revolutionaries want the monopoly of remaking society, or want to foster and steer its urge to remake itself. All policy-makers are frightened by the prospect of a revolution, but their real challenge is here. Revolution is in store for them if they fail to meet it.
