Lewis and Rostow both focused on rising per capita income as the central measure of growth; they conceived of economic development as a modernisation
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Dependency Theory, Development Studies
Here are Some characteristics of developing countries that contribute to the low levels of labour productivity and poor economic performance
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Dependency Theory, Development Studies
One of the distinguish characteristics of developing countries is that their trade tends to be dominated by the export of primary commodities.
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Dependency Theory, Development Studies
Deprivation in developing countries is not simply a matter of low levels of per capita income. There are many other dimensions to the development gap between rich and poor countries. Developing countries generally experience much higher levels of unemployment, open and disguised than do developed countries. The levels of education, health and nutrition are often abysmally
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Dependency Theory, Dependency Theory, Development Studies
Neo-Marxism theories of underdevelopment and dependency appeared during the 1950s, partly as a reaction against the growth and modernisation theories,
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Introduction Andrea Gunder Frank, like Baran, was interested in identifying the causes of underdevelopment, but unlike his predecessor he did not lay great emphasis on the social classes and their control over the economic surplus. Rather, Frank argued that the crucial mechanism for extraction of the surplus was trade and other kinds of exchange of
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Dependency Theory, Development Studies
TFD is rooted in the theory of conscientization attributed to the Brazilian Adult Educator, Paulo Freire who worked with the poor people in North-Eastern Brazil in the province called Recife. Most of his thinking arose from that relationship with the poor. You will need to read Pedagogy of the Oppressed a small hut complex book that
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Dependency Theory, Development Studies
the capitalist World System of production has only permeated the centre economies and their international relations with the periphery.
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Dependency Theory, Development Studies