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“Some feel Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are a vital new road to economic growth, whereas others feel they perpetuate underdevelopment.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 15 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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A multinational corporation owns or controls value-adding activity in more than one country, usually from a home-country headquarters. Whether it develops its hosts divides liberal and modernisation theory from dependency theory; the evidence supports each in different cases, and the decisive variable is the host state.

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  • The case for a road to growth
  • The case for perpetuated underdevelopment
  • What explains the difference
  • Conclusion
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