The Growth Pole Theory
Growth pole is the concentration of technically advanced industries that stimulate economic development in associated businesses and industries. These concentrations […]
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Dependency Theory
Modernisation and Stages of Growth
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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Unbalanced Growth and income Distribution
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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Elimination of Dependency. How does it Work?
In his Elimination of Dependency suggested process, Warren’s main point was; certainly imperialism has led to the creation of a system characterised by inequality and exploitation
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Causes of Underdevelopment according to Baran
Baran conceptualized the causes of underdevelopment in much the same way as his contemporary non-Marxist economists.
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Neo-Marxism Theories of Underdevelopment and Dependency
Neo-Marxism theories of underdevelopment and dependency appeared during the 1950s, partly as a reaction against the growth and modernization theories,
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Exports Dominated by Primary Commodities. Why ?
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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Weak institutional Structures in Developing Countries
Many economists have recently argued that it is weak institutional structures that are the fundamental causes of underdevelopment because the character of institutions is the determinant of all the proximate causes of progress such as investment, education, trade and so on.
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Structural features of developing countries
Here are Some characteristics of developing countries that contribute to the low levels of labour productivity and poor economic performance
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Metropoles and Satellites According to Baran
Introduction Andrea Gunder Frank, like Baran, was interested in identifying the causes of underdevelopment, but unlike his predecessor he did
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