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Explain the concept of the North-South divide and suggest how structural inequalities between the high wage, high investment industrial North and low wage, low investment predominantly rural South can be reduced.

  • UPSC 2016
  • 15 marks
  • Evolution of the International Economic System

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The North-South divide is the economic and political cleavage between the industrialised, capital-rich states of the Global North and the developing, mostly post-colonial states of the Global South. The commission chaired by Willy Brandt fixed the image in North-South: A Programme for Survival (1980). The question's pairing of high and low wages and investment describes…

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