Arturo Escobar Poverty

n Arturo Escobar's second chapter The Problematization of Poverty the Tale of Three Worlds and Development, he makes an argument on the western creation of third world poverty and the steps taken to apprehend the established ‘problems’. As well as the loss of autonomy for these nations, and the cultural loss.. To strengthen his argument, he begins his statement with the ideals of The United States that the only way to reestablish the world post WWII was to stimulate economic growth in the newly categorized ‘poor’ countries. Escobar then defines what the west considered the three worlds, and the competition between the first and second to create a democratic or communist hold onto the weak nations. He then goes on to explain the efforts of the