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What are the limitations of Rostow model of development?

List the limitations of Rostow model of development.

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Maurice
(i) The approach favours a top down approach over a bottom up approach thus rendering indigenous means to development as irrelevant or users.

(ii) This approach implies that only international development institution can handle the problems of under development.

(iii) Rostow treated modernity as equivalent to the model western capitalistic society.

(iv) The approach treated modality as equivalent to the model of western capitalistic society.

(v) This approach has a unilateral interpretation of traditional society as non-modern because of their lower form of development factor of underdevelopment.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on April 23, 2019 at 10:50

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