One can build theory relevant to data by specifying competing three-variable models relating economic dependency to economic performance and development potential. An empirical evaluation can then be ...

The pre-colonial elite were predominantly a caste system of kings, chiefs and a few prominent traders of a given society. The pre-colonial elite are co-adjutors in the economic development of the ...

Human Ecology Review Vol. 6, No. 1, Summer 1999 Development, Dependence, Population Pressure, and Human Rights: The Cross-National Evidence This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section ...

My student argued that dependency theory overemphasized external factors and global structures, downplaying the internal factors of governance, policy, class structure, environment and culture that ...

Nevertheless, the dependency theory gradually turned out to be a tool that some western scholars employ to blackmail China with the goal of creating divisions among developing countries.