Problems associated with access to community services will likely worsen significantly, however, before beginning to improve.
Developmental Theory AffectingCommunity Development
Community development is heavily dependent on the availability of financial resources and on the economic development of a country (Korten and Alfonso, 1983, p. 23). Both access to necessary financial resources and economic development have posed major problems for Third World countries over the past five decades.
As the industrial countries began to grant political independence to former colonies subsequent to the end of the Second World War (whether through peaceful transfer or as a result of armed conflict), newly independent countries were often confronted with the daunting task of developing a means of economic survival within an often hostile environment of international trade and domestic poverty (Wolf and Hansen, 1972, p. 205). The desperate need for hard currency typically meant that the governments of the newly independent countries emphasized the internatio
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