The categories that they are depicted as belonging to in this map are based on figures calculated by their own respective statistical agencies. Figures for Taiwan and Macau (marked with asterisks) were not calculated by the UN. An HDI below 0.5 is considered to represent low development and an HDI 0.8 or more is considered to represent high development. UN Human Development Index (HDI) for 2004, derived from 2006 UN HDI report. Neocolonialism charges against former colonial powers For some people of religious faith, the end goal of human history is the creation of a single nation under God in which all the cultures, faiths and races of the world are respected, honored and universal peace and justice is achieved. Only when humanity, it can be argued, tackles issues that confront all people globally will global solutions become possible. Neocolonialism critiques how some states treat other states but also raises questions about whether the nation state is, as many argue, the ultimate form of political organization. Loans by international banking institutions and even development, aid and relief efforts have been criticized as perpetuating dependency by failing to address the causes of poverty. However, the international system, beginning with the veto of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council can be understood as perpetuating the domination of powerful, rich nations over less powerful states. Neoimperialism might better describe what the term neocolonialism is intended to mean. In this sense, Neocolonialism implies a form of contemporary, economic Imperialism: That powerful nations behave like colonial powers, and that this behavior is likened to colonialism in a post-colonial world.
In broader usage, especially in Latin America, Neocolonialism may simply refer to involvement of powerful countries in the affairs of less powerful countries. Critics of neocolonialism contend that private, foreign business companies continue to exploit the resources of post-colonial peoples, and that this economic control inherent to neocolonialism is akin to the classical, European colonialism practiced from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
The term Neocolonialism can combine a critique of current actual colonialism (where some states continue administrating foreign territories and their populations in violation of United Nations resolutions ) and a critique of modern capitalist businesses involvement in nations which were former colonies. Critics of neocolonialism argue that existing or past international economics arrangements created by former colonial powers were, or are, used to maintain control of their former colonies and dependencies after the colonial independence movements of the post- World War II period. Neocolonialism is a term used by post-colonial critics of developed countries' involvement in the developing world. The colors represent the colonies of various nations in 1945, and the borders the colonial borders of that time.