Developing Nations | Some Developing Nations Do Not Have Cultures That Support Democracy

About the author: Lawrence E. Harrison directed USAID missions in five Latin American countries between 1965 and 1981. He is a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Academy for International and Area Studies and co-editor of Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress.

The decades-old war on poverty and authoritarianism in the poor countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America has produced more disappointment and frustration than it has victories. The deprivation and despair that prevailed in the midtwentieth century persist in most of these countries, even a decade...

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