The Politics of Economic Transformation: Is Third World Experience Relevant in Eastern Europe?

1993 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan M. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Third World ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Economic Management ◽  
Political Liberalization ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Executive Autonomy ◽  
Shed Light

Two sets of Third World nations can shed light on the politics of economic transformation in Eastern Europe. First, there are nations that pursued particularly vigorous reforms in the 1980s. They shared three key political features: popular consensus that basic reforms were imperative; antireform groups largely in disarray or suppressed; and substantial executive autonomy in economic management. The first of these features is clearly present in Eastern Europe; the second is questionable; and the third is present but precarious and probably temporary. Second and also relevant to Eastern Europe is the growing group of Third World nations seeking to consolidate political openings simultaneously with major economic reforms. Economic and political liberalization conflict with, yet are crucial for, each other. Proposals that they be sequenced are unrealistic. In Eastern Europe as in the Third World, a crucial dilemma is reconciling public demands for access to decision making with sufficient executive autonomy for coherent economic management.

Eastern Europe and the Third World: East vs. South

1981 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier ◽  
Michael Radu
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

scholarly journals (Re)thinking Postsocialism: Interview with Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Lesia Pagulich ◽  
Tatsiana Shchurko
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Third World ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
Colonial Form ◽  
The Third World ◽  
National Economies ◽  
The Impact

Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora: We realized that the socialist legacies of each region connected them, as well as to other global sites. Postcolonial studies offered tools for understanding Soviet imperialism, yet came from regions with very different racialized, gendered, and sexualized dynamics of power that accompanied the European colonial form of economic domination. At the same time, postsocialist studies was actively excavating and engaging the impact of socialism on cultural and political life in Eastern Europe in a way that did not seem to gain traction as a way to understand the socialist commitments of newly independent governments in the third world who were non-aligned but initiated social welfare and redistribution policies to protect newly launched national economies, policies that continue in some places until the present.

scholarly journals “AQUI ESTÁ A OPÇÃO DO TERCEIRO MUNDO: UM FUTURO ABERTO OU A MISÉRIA ETERNA”. REFLEXÕES SOBRE A OBRA TARDIA DE MÁRIO PEDROSA / “Here is the Third World option: an open future or eternal misery”: reflections on Mário Pedrosa's late work

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (41) ◽  
pp. 331-349
Author(s):  
Luiza Mader Paladino
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Third World ◽  
American Art ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Popular Art ◽  
The Third ◽  
Salvador Allende ◽  
Cultura Popular ◽  
The Third World

A filósofa Otília Arantes nomeou O ponto de vista latino-americano o corpus crítico de Mário Pedrosa produzido após o desterro chileno, durante o governo de Salvador Allende (1970-1973). Nesse conjunto de textos, observa-se a recuperação de tradições que não haviam sido capturadas pela historiografia oficial, como as práticas e os saberes oriundos da cultura popular e indígena. Essa interpretação pode ser identificada em obras como Discurso aos Tupiniquins ou Nambás e Teses para o Terceiro Mundo, nas quais o crítico se amparou em um repertório terceiro-mundista partilhado no exílio. O autor exaltou uma leitura ancorada na inversão geopolítica, a qual localizou nos países situados ao sul uma fagulha revolucionária capaz de deflagrar a almejada transformação social e econômica. Essas obras-manifesto sintetizaram praticamente todo o discurso crítico, político e museológico que Pedrosa sustentou ao voltar para o Brasil, em 1977.Palavras-chave: Exílio; Terceiro Mundo; Arte latino-americana; Mário Pedrosa; Arte popular. AbstractThe philosopher Otília Arantes named The critical corpus of Mário Pedrosa produced after the Chilean exile during the Salvador Allende government (1970-1973) from The Latin American Spot. In this set of texts, there is a recovery of traditions that had not been captured by official historiography, such as the practices and knowledge derived from popular and indigenous culture. This interpretation can be identified in works such as Speech to the Tupiniquins or Nambás and Theses for the Third World, in which the critic relied on a shared Third World repertoire in exile. The critic praised a reading anchored in the geopolitical inversion, which located in the countries located to the south a revolutionary spark capable of triggering the desired social and economic transformation. These manifesto works synthesized practically all the critical, political and museological discourse that the author sustained when he returned to Brazil in 1977.Keywords: Exile; Third world; Latin American art; Mário Pedrosa; Popular art.

scholarly journals La Femme et le Développement au Maghreb. Une Approche Socio-Culturelle

Afrika Focus ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-354
Author(s):  
Brahim Hachlouf
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Development Problem ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Shed Light

Woman and Development in the Maghreb. A Socio-Cultural Approach. The under-development problem of the Third World can not exclusively be attributed to economic backlogging, political crises or supernatural events. The perseverance of old ancestral values, cultural, social and psychological, still remain obstructions to any social evolution in a country. The woman’s role in society in these countries, is restricted to house-keeping and the bearing of children. A situation which weighs heavy on their economies. This article will shed light on the essential elements which hinder active woman participation in development of their economies, in particular in the Maghreb-countries. Discussed is their personal status, women's position in education and in the work-force.

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