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Since 1945, views concerning the problems of development and underdevelopment have undergone numerous and sometimes drastic changes. Such changes occurred both in developed and underdeveloped countries. The primary purposes of this chapter is to describe and explain these changes, especially those that have taken place in the economically advanced societies. The problem is that at particular points in time views on development and underdevelopment have not always been the same in all industrialized countries. Europeans are more aware of the great disparities in today’s troubled world and appear better informed about the causes of underdevelopment. The period 1945-1985 is divided into four ten-year periods. This periodization is an arbitrary one and that there are no well-defined “boundaries” separating one period from another. I.        1945-1955: Period of Western Disconcern In this period, developed countries were not interested yet with the prob...