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Question 1) How convincing do you find Escobar’s critique of development? Answer

Question 1) How convincing do you find Escobar’s critique of development? Answer with reference to Escobar’s Encountering Development (Chapter 1) and Pieterse’s article.  
1000 words
https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Z887lsgjLuwC&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Escobar%E2%80%99s+Encountering+Development+&ots=bpe8vcAT0p&sig=IoDsg_ZpcKAIWD-QBcGLHy3ZfjY&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Escobar%E2%80%99s%20Encountering%20Development&f=false
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3993415
Around 600 words to show that is is convincing
Around 400 to show why some may disagree
Question 2) With reference to at least two authors in the reading list, what are the limitations of modernisation theory and dependency theory. 1000 words
https://www.rochelleterman.com/ComparativeExam/sites/default/files/Bibliography%20and%20Summaries/Valenzuela%201976.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08039410.2012.688860?scroll=top&needAccess=true
500 words for the limitation of Modernisation Theory 
500 words for the limitation of Dependency Theory

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