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Dependency theory is the idea that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and exploited states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. A central contention of dependency theory is that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system".
Neocolonial dependence, also known as the Neocolonial Dependance Model or Dependency Theory is an indirect outgrowth of Marxist thinking which is a subgroup of development economics. According to this doctrine, third world underdevelopment is viewed as the result of highly unequal international capitalist system or rich country-poor country ...
Immanuel Wallerstein's "world-systems theory" was the version of Dependency theory that most North American anthropologists engaged with. His theories are similar to Dependency theory, although he placed more emphasis on the system as system, and focused on the developments of the core rather than periphery.
Andre Gunder Frank (February 24, 1929 – April 25, 2005) was a German-American sociologist and economic historian who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984. He employed some Marxian concepts on political economy, but rejected Marx's stages of history, and economic history generally. [citation needed]
The theory reached its peak in the early 1970s when it propagated throughout Latin America, the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia. However, after the fall of the Chilean Allende Government in 1973, which was heavily based on the dependency theory, critics of this theory increased in number. The theory does not have many proponents today ...
See also the article Dependency theory. Pages in category "Dependency theorists" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Postdevelopment theory is a school of thought which questions the idea of national economic development altogether. According to postdevelopment scholars, the goal of improving living standards leans on arbitrary claims as to the desirability and possibility of that goal. Postdevelopment theory arose in the 1980s and 1990s.
Geography has produced influential scholarship on the idea of uneven development. Geography started to lean left politically before the 1970s [16] resulting in a particular interest in questions of inequality and uneven development (UD). UD has since become somewhat of a homegrown theory in Geography as geographers have worked to explain what ...