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Indicate social determinants of economic development. Discuss any one sociological perspective analysing backwardness and poverty in the developing societies.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Works and Economic Life

Capital and technology produce growth only when values, institutions and social relations allow them to work. The first part indicates these determinants. The second takes up the dependency perspective, which reverses the usual question: it looks for the cause of backwardness in a society's place within world capitalism, not in its own culture.

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  • Social determinants of economic development
  • The dependency perspective
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