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Critically examine the World-Systems theory of Immanuel Wallerstein in terms of development and dependency of various nations.

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  • Social Change in Modern Society

Immanuel Wallerstein, in The Modern World-System (1974), moved the unit of analysis from the nation-state to a single capitalist world-economy in existence since the "long sixteenth century". Development and dependency are therefore not two rungs of one ladder, as W. W. Rostow assumed, but two positions in one structure that produces both together.

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  • The world-economy and its axial division of labour
  • How some nations develop and others stay dependent
  • India read through the model
  • Critical evaluation
  • Conclusion

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