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  2. Periphery countries - Wikipedia

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    Once a periphery country can industrialize, and use its own resources to its own benefit, it will begin to enter semi-periphery status. In order for a periphery country to industrialize, it must first undergo proto-industrialization. [16] In this stage, a market-based economy begins to form, normally in rural areas, using agricultural products ...

  3. List of alternative country names - Wikipedia

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    Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. Some have special names particular to poetic diction or other contexts. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any ...

  4. World-systems theory - Wikipedia

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    In his terminology, the core is the developed, industrialized part of the world, and the periphery is the "underdeveloped", typically raw materials-exporting, poor part of the world; the market being the means by which the core exploits the periphery. Apart from them, Wallerstein defines four temporal features of the world system.

  5. List of alternative country musicians - Wikipedia

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    This is a listing of bands and musicians in the alternative country genre. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  6. Semi-periphery countries - Wikipedia

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    And this is the semi-periphery listing according to Babones (2005), who notes that this list is composed of countries that "have been consistently classified into a single one of the three zones [core, semi-periphery or periphery] of the world economy over the entire 28-year study period".

  7. List of painters by name beginning with "A" - Wikipedia

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    Please add names of notable painters with a Wikipedia page, in precise English alphabetical order, using U.S. spelling conventions. Country and regional names refer to where painters worked for long periods, not to nationalities or family background.

  8. Dependency theory - Wikipedia

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    This theory postulates a third category of countries, the semi-periphery, intermediate between the core and periphery. Wallerstein believed in a tri-modal rather than a bi-modal system because he viewed the world-systems as more complicated than a simplistic classification as either core or periphery nations.

  9. List of countries and territories by the United Nations ...

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    This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...