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Does the perspective of Dependency Theory offer a robust critique on the nature of mainstream development process taking place in Africa and Latin America?

  • UPSC 2012
  • 20 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Dependency theory arose in Latin America in the 1960s as a reply to modernisation theory, which saw poverty as an original condition cured by integration with the West. Its answer was the reverse: integration on unequal terms produces underdevelopment. The critique is robust as a diagnosis of structural constraint, and much weaker as a theory…

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