Thus far, we have been discussing what true economic development means. In doing so, one approach we have been using is to sociologically analyse economic development as advanced by the West and pursued by the rest of the world....

"Religion is the opium of the people"—Karl Marx In the first part in this series, I discussed the political institution of society, and briefly examined democracy as promoted by the West to see whether this institution has lived up to...

Economic development—this is the quest of almost every progressive individual, group of people, nation, and continent and for that matter the world at large. This quest for development has brought about joy and sorrow, hope and despair, progress and...