The focus of Devi's form of literature brings to attention the complexities within the borders of a nation and lives of the subaltern. ... The tribal people that Mahasweta Devi wrote about in her protest fiction literature are victims of many centuries worth of oppression within a nation. ... This economic globalization spread its influence throughout developing countries throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia. ...

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This understanding of globalisation fits into the set of literature referred to as the ' first wave' and is associated with US truimphalists and business schools theorists. ... The yearly subsidy the US gives just to American cotton farmers is three times its total aid to Africa. From 2001 to 2002, the US granted its cotton farmers $3 billion in subsidies, more than the entire economic output of Burkina Faso, just one poor African nation. ...

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Various political, racial, and familial tensions in this small community are also revealed through the experience of an African American officer (Joe Morton), who has returned home to head a military base, and through the personal struggles of a Mexican-American teacher (Elizabeth Pena), who does battle with an angry school board upset over her multicultural approach to the history of the Alamo. ...

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The process of economic development has been usually seen as a transformation from the rural agricultural sector to the urban manufacturing sector in developing countries. This process in the dual sectors is driven by labor transfers (migration) and capital accumulation. W. Arthur Lewis in his work on 'Economic development with unlimited supplies of labor' (1954) analyzed the labor market dualism and the structural difference between the subsistence sector and capitalistic sector in developing economies. The two sectors in the Lewis model are referred to as the subsistence and capit...

• Word Count: 4558
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