Hirschman stressed his point by saying that if a country were ready to apply the doctrine of unbalanced growth, then it would not be underdeveloped.
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Dependency Theory, Development Studies
Many economists have recently argued that it is weak institutional structures that are the fundamental causes of underdevelopment
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Dependency Theory, Development Studies
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
food security is defined as a condition whereby all people have access to food of the right quantity and quality at all times to enable them live an active healthy life.
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Development Studies, Food Security
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
