A confront between Modernisation and Postmodernism
an analysis of the Millennium Villages Project
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Millennium Village Project, Modernisation, PostmodernismAbstract
The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) was elaborated in order to help African poorest regions to reach the Millennium Development Goals through investments in health, education, agricultural productivity and infrastructure. MVP received positive critiques ”“ regarding to local infrastructural progress -, but also negative ones - related to its lack of sustainability and bad impacts in villagers lives. Depending on the perspective used to examine reality one can come to a certain conclusion, so the present paper aims to analyze MVP through different Development theories: Modernisation and Postmodernism. Through Modernisation it can be implied that MVP is a real whish of the Western countries to incentive development and provide aid through their know-how; on the other hand, Postmodernism would consider MVP a trial to spread the Western values that does not represent the real needs of the lcoals. Both theories present strong and weak points and the idea will be discussed deeper during the research.
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