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To what extent underdevelopment in Latin America is caused by neo-imperialism?

  • UPSC 2024
  • Imperialism and Colonialism

Latin America won political independence from Spain and Portugal by the 1820s, yet remained economically peripheral for two more centuries — a paradox that the concept of neo-imperialism attempts to explain.

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  • The Colonial Inheritance
  • Britain's Informal Empire in the Nineteenth Century
  • American Interventionism and the Twentieth Century
  • Dependency Theory and Debt Dependence
  • Internal Factors That Complicate the Thesis

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