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structural dependency  

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  • STRUCTURAL dependency, also known as dependency theory, is a method of analyzing and understanding the international economy that stresses the differences between the powerful central nations of the core and the largely powerless and impoverished nations of the periphery. The idea developed in the 1960s and drew upon Marxist thought. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Structural Dependency]

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