- See economic growth as the main component of development
- Maintain the idea that Tradition is the main obstacle to development
- If Western colonialism and Imperialism is the main reason for underdevelopment in the Third World, What about China, Ethopia were colonies of western Europe and are developed.
- Impractical ideas: If Third World Countries totally dissociate themselves from First they will not gain development. The relationship between Third world and First World is not dependent but interdependent. Globalization
- Undermines the ability of the States to charter development: (Russia and Germany)
- Does not explain the relevance of the Situation of the New International Division of Labor.