Kapitalisoituminen ja Afrikan valtioiden eriytyminen maailmantaloudessa

Författare

• Jyrki Käkönen

Abstract

The first part of the article discusses, on a theoretical level, the problem of capitalization and development in the developing world. The argument is that the expansion of the capitalist mode of production has generated a capitalist development in various parts of the so-called Third World. In a global context, capitalization means also the integration of the developing societies into the capitalist world economy. But the reproduction of the capitalist mode of production and capital on a global level differentiate developing countries into various categories. Consequently, the interests of the developing countries vis-a-vis the developed countries diverge. At the end of the first part, several categories of developing countries are presented. In the empirical part of the article, the aim of the work is to verify whether different ccategories of the African states can be found in the 1970s. Through factor analysis, it was possible to find five diverse types of dependence and three different types of economic growth in Africa during the 1970s. In the further analysis, different factors were used as indicators to characterize groups of African states. By using cluster analysis, it was possible to find seven distinct categories of African countries. Therefore, not only in the process of capitalization, but also in the process of attaining a system of self-reliance, the positions of African states has differentiated in the capitalist world economy.