ABSTRACT
The analysis of Dependencia theorists has mainly stressed the contrast between highly developed and poor countries. The world as a whole is manifestly ungovernable. It is divided by large divergencies of interest between highly developed and developing countries, and it is further divided between the hitherto incompatible economic institutions of market-oriented private enterprise on the one hand, and Communist central state planning on the other. The aspects which listed as typical for the rise and function of the modern welfare state are absent in most of the developing countries. Industrialisation there is feeble. Tax-collecting systems are weak. Bureaucrats are recruited in considerable part through patronage and family connections, rather than by any criteria of performance and pure rationality. Modern welfare states have shown a high degree of social stability, except in times of economic depression.
