Dependency Theory,Development Studies

The Growth Pole Theory

Growth pole is the concentration of technically advanced industries that stimulate economic development in associated businesses and industries. These concentrations…

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Modernisation and Stages of Growth

Lewis and Rostow both focused on rising per capita income as the central measure of growth; they conceived of economic…

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Unbalanced Growth and income Distribution

Hirschman stressed his point by saying that if a country were ready to apply the doctrine of unbalanced growth, then…

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Elimination of Dependency. How does it Work?

In his Elimination of Dependency suggested process, Warren's main point was; certainly imperialism has led to the creation of a…

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Causes of Underdevelopment according to Baran

Baran conceptualized the causes of underdevelopment in much the same way as his contemporary non-Marxist economists.

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Neo-Marxism Theories of Underdevelopment and Dependency

Neo-Marxism theories of underdevelopment and dependency appeared during the 1950s, partly as a reaction against the growth and modernization theories,…

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Metropoles and Satellites According to Baran

Introduction Andrea Gunder Frank, like Baran, was interested in identifying the causes of underdevelopment, but unlike his predecessor he did…

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The Capitalist World System by Wallerstein

the capitalist mode of production has only permeated the centre economies and their international relations with the periphery.

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Dependency Development

Dependency development is an area of dependency theory which is  mainly concerned with the efforts made to export primary resources from countries which are…

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Theories of Unequal Exchange

Arghiri Emmanuel's theory of unequal exchange, dating from the late 1960s, was in certain respects in extension of Prebisch's and…

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