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Critically examine the contribution of dependency theories in understanding the present global scenario.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Dependency theories — from Raúl Prebisch and Andre Gunder Frank to Samir Amin, Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Immanuel Wallerstein — held that the poverty of the South and the wealth of the North are produced by a single relational process, not by separate national histories. The question today is whether that grammar still reads a…

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