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Write a short essay on the Latin American perspective on ‘dependency’.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Dependencia is the first major body of social theory to travel from the global South to the North. Formulated in Latin America between the 1940s and the 1970s, it rejected the idea that poverty is a starting condition and argued instead that the region's subordination is an ongoing relationship with the industrial centre. Its importance…

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  • Structuralist origins: ECLA and the terms of trade
  • The radical turn
  • The historical-structural correction
  • The decolonial extension
  • Evaluation and contemporary relevance
  • Conclusion

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