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Write short note: Theory of underdevelopment.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Social Change in Modern Society

Theories of underdevelopment form a family of explanations holding that the poverty of the global South is structurally produced by its relationship with the industrial centre, not inherited from a traditional past. They arose in the 1950s and 1960s as a direct rebuttal of W. W. Rostow's stages of growth, which located the obstacles inside…

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