Reshaping the World for the 21st Century
Subtitle: Society and Growth
Publisher: Black Rose Books
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781551641942
Subjects: Development economics; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Development - Economic Development; International Relations - General; History / United States / 20th Century; Sociology - General
First sentence: "What a revolting development this is!" railed my mother as she surveyed the walls of traffic hemming in our 1955 Ford on all sides.
Description: "Reshaping The World For The 21st Century evaluates post-World War II economic development efforts in the United States, in Canada, in Brazil, and in Mexico. It argues that the plan of the more fortunate countries to bring prosperity to the less developed ones failed: the development effort did not stop the growth of poverty, did not protect the environment sufficiently, and did not promote human rights energetically.".

"Based on personal accounts of daily life in the megacities Sao Paulo and Mexico City, and on a review of other development analysts' conclusions, Smith evaluates the failures in Brazil and Mexico - the transportation fiascos spawned, the housing situations - and wonders how it could be that the most advanced industrial powers just didn't see that the poverty suffered by most people in Latin American countries was worsening even during the 1960s and 1970s, an era of relative prosperity."--BOOK JACKET.