Communication and Ward Development Committees in Chipata: a Zambian Case-Study of Administrative Inertia

A consultant is not expected to report that he cannot explain why things are the way they are. Such a conclusion tends to undermine belief in the expert as well as on the part of the client. It can, however, be the true state of affairs. In our opinion there is ample reason to admit to ignorance as regards the causes of widespread administrative inertia in the Third World, where bureaucracies often just do not function: letters are not replied to, appointments are kept haphazardly, and rules are either absent or referred to in the extreme. Bureaucratic behaviour is, as a result, often highly unpredictable for citizens. This is especially painful when it concerns necessities. In Zambia, for example, it is virtually impossible to travel or look for work without identification documents, but in the rural areas, people may have cycled for 20 or 30 kilometres to the headquarters of the District in order to get a National Registration Card only to find that the civil servant responsible is away for an undetermined period.

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The Third World Christian Immigrant And The American Protestant Churches: A Case Study Of Their Interaction And Responses

10.2986/tren.100-0069 ◽

1986 ◽

Author(s):

Kofi ASIMPI

Keyword(s):

Third World ◽

The Third ◽

Protestant Churches ◽

The Third World

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Warfare, oracles and iron: a case study of production among the pre-colonial Klowe, in the light of some recent Marxist analyses

Africa ◽

10.2307/1159909 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 29-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

David Brown

Keyword(s):

Third World ◽

Theoretical Work ◽

Central Place ◽

Marxist Theory ◽

The Third ◽

Definition Of ◽

Opening Paragraph ◽

The Third World

Opening ParagraphIt is perhaps surprising that the recent resurgence of interest in the application of Marxist theory to the study of the historically non-capitalist societies of the Third World should have focused, at least in part, upon the stateless societies of Africa. To some extent, this interest in some of the least differentiated and least class-stratified of societies can be related to the fundamental problematic of Marxist sociology: the characterization of the stage of advanced communism, which remains so obscure in Marx's own theoretical work. An understanding of the dynamics of ‘primitive’ communism might be seen, therefore, as an essential precursor to this underlying concern. Certainly, the often highly tendentious views of Marxist writers on such issues as the definition of the state and the extent of exploitation in the primitive communist mode can be related to this need. However, the rise of Marxist anthropology has not only been presented as a problem of general evolutionary theory. Other influences have been offered to account for the new concern, the most widely cited being the supposed crisis of functionalism, and the resulting necessity for a complete reorientation of the whole discipline of anthropology. Stateless societies, having long occupied a central place in the field of anthropological enquiry, and yet outwardly presenting such simplicity of form, offer a particular challenge to the radical, and in several recent works have been interpreted in what is claimed to be a novel and distinctive way.

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UNE ETUDE DES DETERMINISMES A LA BASE DE L’ECHEC SCOLAIRE LE CAS DES PAYS DU TIERS MONDE(1)

Chemchemi International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences ◽

10.33886/cijhs.v10i2.11 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

Author(s):

M. P. K. Nzunga

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Third World ◽

Efficient Solution ◽

Language Of Instruction ◽

Financial Status ◽

The Third ◽

The Family ◽

The Third World ◽

Culture Of Origin

Fare has been established as a major issue, in primary and secondary schools within the Third World countries. This work sets out to reveal the possible determinants of this phenomenon. A comparison between performance in the rural areas and the urban areas has produced a lot of data on the determinants of school failure and repetition. The researcher seeks to establish the link between failure and the level of intelligence of the learners, the language of instruction, the financial status of the family and the culture of origin. The researcher hopes that by so doing, it would be easier to find a practical and efficient solution, to this problem, which is a great stambling block in the Third World countries.

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The Production and Consumption of Cultural Villages in South Africa: A Decolonial Epistemic Perspective

Africanus Journal of Development Studies ◽

10.25159/0304-615x/2301 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 43 (2) ◽

pp. 51-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Morgan Ndlovu

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Third World ◽

The Third ◽

The People ◽

Production And Consumption ◽

Tourism Studies ◽

Spatio Temporal ◽

The Third World ◽

Epistemic Perspective

While many of the peoples who exist in the ‘spatio-temporal’ construct known as the postcolonial world today are convinced that they have succeeded – through anticolonial and anti-imperial struggles – to defeat colonial domination, the majority of the people of the same part of the world have not yet reaped the freedoms which they aimed to achieve. The question that emerges out of the failure to realise the objectives of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles by the people of the Third World after a number of years of absence of juridical-administrative colonial and apartheid systems is to what extent did the people who sought to dethrone colonial domination understand the complexity of the colonial system? And to what end did the ability and/or inability to master the complexity of the colonial system affect the process of decolonization? Through the case study of the production and consumption of cultural villages in South Africa, this article deploys a de-colonial epistemic perspective to reveal, within the context of tourism studies, the complexity of the colonial system and why a truly decolonized postcolonial world has so far eluded the people of the developing world.

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Soviet Perspectives and Policies toward Reactionary Regimes in the Developing World

Canadian-American Slavic Studies ◽

10.1163/22102396-05002008 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 244-263

Author(s):

Jeffrey Surovell

Keyword(s):

Third World ◽

Focal Point ◽

The State ◽

State Sector ◽

Progressive Development ◽

The Third ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S ◽

State Of Affairs ◽

The Third World

In their assessments during the 1960s and 1970s of the state of affairs of Third World “revolutionary democracies” and nations that had taken the “non-capitalist road to development,” the Soviets employed a mode of analysis based on the “correlation of forces.” Given the seeming successes of these “revolutionary democracies” and the appearance of new ones, Moscow was clearly heartened by the apparent tilt in favor of the Soviets and of “progressive” humanity more generally. These apparently positive trends were reflected in Soviet perspectives and policies on the Third World, which focused confidently on such “progressive” regimes. Nonetheless, so-called “reactionary” regimes continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet policy makers. This study offers a fresh examination of the Soviet analyses of, and policies towards three “reactionary” Third-World regimes: the military dictatorship in Brazil, the Pinochet dictatorship of Chile, and Iran during the reign of the Shah. The article reveals that Soviet decision makers and analysts identified the state sector as the central factor in the “progressive” development of the Third World. Hence the state sector became the focal point for their analyses and the touchstone for Soviet policies; the promotion of the state sector was regarded as a key to the Soviet objective of promoting the “genuine independence” of Third World countries from imperialist domination.

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