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Dependency theory and condition of the poor in developing world

For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open your markets, liberalise ...
This analysis investigates the proposition that disarticulation explains the effects of dependency and techno-economic heritage on social development. The results show that disarticulation does not ...
The strongest empirical evidence of dependency has been the finding of an increasingly negative effect of extensive foreign capital penetration on the subsequent economic growth of the host. This long ...
Corruption in Malaysia is systemic, embedded in a political-business nexus that perpetuates dependency and undermines reform.