The concept of development, first conceptualized in the 1940s as a means of addressing the problem of extreme poverty and social unrest, was used to describe disparities between countries with high incomes and growth rates and those whose populations were still suffering (Escobar, 1995; Snowdon, 2007). This gave rise to the notion that the “developed” countries of the “first world” whose populations have better living conditions, would have to find ways to manage third-world “developing” countries out of their misery. Free trade and technological advancements were seen to be essential in order to bring about economic growth on a global level. No metric was established at the time as to what this term actually denoted and when development could be achieved. The idea was that modernizing developing countries with technology, systems of government and “improvements in all areas of the economy” transported from developed countries would not only alleviate poverty but provide the developed countries with the necessary trading partners to ensure the continued growth of their own economies. The idea was that providing poor countries with technology and knowledge of modern techniques would leapfrog them out of their misery. This discourse according to Escobar (1995) was at the heart of the problematization of development which led the World Bank to declare twothirds of the world’s people to be poor in 1948, because they did not have sufficient income.