What is The false paradigm model?

Answer 1

A second and a less radical international-dependence approach to development, which we might call the false-paradigm model, attributes underdevelopment to faulty and inappropriate advice provided by well-meaning but often uninformed, biased, and ethnocentric international "expert" advisers from developed-country assistance agencies and multinational donor organizations. These experts offer sophisticated concepts, elegant theoretical structures, and complex econometric models of development that often lead to inappropriate or incorrect policies. Because of institutional factors such as the central and remarkably resilient role of

traditional social structures (tribe, caste, class, etc.), the highly unequal ownership

of land and other property rights, the disproportionate control by local elites over

domestic and international financial assets, and the very unequal access to credit,

these policies, based as they often are on mainstream, Lewis-type surplus labor or

Chenery-type structural-change models, in many cases merely serve the vested interests

of existing power groups, both domestic and international.

In addition, according to this argument, leading university intellectuals, trade

unionists, high-level government economists, and other civil servants all get their

training in developed-country institutions where they are unwittingly served an

unhealthy dose of alien concepts and elegant but inapplicable theoretical models.

Having little or no really useful knowledge to enable them to come to grips in an effective

way with real development problems, they often tend to become unknowing

or reluctant apologists for the existing system of elitist policies and institutional

structures. In university economics courses, for example, this typically entails the

perpetuation of the teaching of many irrelevant Western concepts and models,

while in government policy discussions too much emphasis is placed on attempts

to measure capital-output ratios, to increase savings and investment ratios, or tomaximize GNP growth rates. As a result, proponents argue that desirable institutional

and structural reforms, many of which we have discussed, are neglected or

given only cursory attention.

Answer 2

The false paradigm occurs when a person used stereotypical patterns of standards which were developed through experiences during the events of his/her lifespan. A paradigm is commonly created during the early childhood.