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Who termed third world countries as soft states ?
Answer: C
The term 'soft state' was used by Gunnar Myrdal.
In Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations (1968), the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal described South Asian countries, including India, as 'soft states'. Governments passed laws and plans but lacked the will or capacity to enforce them, and social discipline was weak: corruption, evasion of obligations and collusion between officials and powerful interests undermined development.
U.L. Goswami is credited with first using the term 'development administration' (1955), Edward Weidner developed that concept, and Donald Stone wrote on administration for development; none of them introduced the idea of the soft state.
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