China's annual two sessions have begun this week. This critical series of meetings in spring is vital to defining China's approach to economic, political and foreign policy issues for the whole year.

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Theories of development and modernization have played a crucial role in the formation of U.S. policy since George Washington's administration promoted the "civilization" of the eastern Native American ...

Teka Entehabu (left), former Ethiopian minister of trade and industry, interacts with other participants during the fourth Think Tank Forum on National Governance in Developing Countries in Beijing on ...

Ideas about what it means to be modern are soon dated. Not so long ago theories were in vogue claiming that a “scientific-technical revolution” was under way that would lead to a single type of ...

Inglehart is one of the last great postwar exponents of modernization theory, which sees economic development as leading to shifts in society toward liberal democracy. Modernization theory has gone in ...

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The Chinese path to modernization, which is different from that of the West, has set an example for developing countries, according to experts at a forum on Tuesday. They made the remarks in Beijing ...