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dependency school  

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  • The Dependency School’s main contribution to the subject of poverty was its assertion that underdevelopment stemmed primarily from external rather than internal causes. Dependency, along with the Latin American brand of structuralism that preceded it, was an ideology articulated by Latin American intellectuals that had considerable impact in Latin America and abroad. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Dependency School]

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