Rostow believes that poorer places are in an initial or beginning stage of development, while countries with higher levels of GNP are in a later stage of higher development. Rostow's principal argument is that some places have progressed further than others in terms of economic development (as represented by the map of GNP). Rostow's model illustrates a desire not only to assist lower income countries in the development process but also to assert the United States' influence over that of communist Russia. Kennedy's administration, Rostow promoted his development model as part of U.S. Rostow was fiercely anti-communist and right-wing he modeled his theory after western capitalist countries, which had industrialized and urbanized. Stages of Economic Growth was published in 1960, at the height of the Cold War, and with the subtitle "A Non-Communist Manifesto," it was overtly political.
It was, however, also grounded in the historical and political context in which he wrote. Rostow's Stages of Growth model is one of the most influential development theories of the twentieth century. Here, a country's economy flourishes in a capitalist system, characterized by mass production and consumerism. Age of High Mass Consumption: At the time of writing, Rostow believed that Western countries, most notably the United States, occupied this last "developed" stage.Drive to Maturity: This stage takes place over a long period of time, as standards of living rise, use of technology increases, and the national economy grows and diversifies.Take-off: Rostow describes this stage as a short period of intensive growth, in which industrialization begins to occur, and workers and institutions become concentrated around a new industry.
Preconditions to Take-off: Here, a society begins to develop manufacturing, and a more national/international, as opposed to regional, outlook. Traditional Society: This stage is characterized by a subsistent, agricultural based economy, with intensive labor and low levels of trading, and a population that does not have a scientific perspective on the world and technology. The model asserted that all countries exist somewhere on this linear spectrum, and climb upward through each stage in the development process: Using these ideas, Rostow penned his classic Stages of Economic Growth in 1960, which presented five steps through which all countries must pass to become developed: 1) traditional society, 2) preconditions to take-off, 3) take-off, 4) drive to maturity and 5) age of high mass consumption. Accordingly, other countries should model themselves after the West, aspiring to a "modern" state of capitalism and a liberal democracy. Prior to Rostow, approaches to development had been based on the assumption that "modernization" was characterized by the Western world (wealthier, more powerful countries at the time), which were able to advance from the initial stages of underdevelopment. Rostow, an American economist, and government official. One of the key thinkers in twentieth-century Development Studies was W.W. Geographers often seek to categorize places using a scale of development, frequently dividing nations into the "developed" and "developing," "first world" and "third world," or "core" and "periphery." All of these labels are based on judging a country's development, but this raises the question: what exactly does it mean to be "developed," and why have some countries developed while others have not? Since the beginning of the twentieth century, geographers and those involved with the vast field of Development Studies have sought to answer this question, and in the process, have come up with many different models to explain this phenomenon. Rostow's Five Stages of Economic Growth and Development are Widely Criticized Rostow's Five Stages of Economic Growth and Development are Widely Criticized. The following information is quoted from Jacobs, J.
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