What Was the Original Cause of Underdevelopment in the Low-Income

question 46

Multiple Choice

What was the original cause of underdevelopment in the low-income countries according to dependency theory?

• A) fatalism
• B) colonialism
• C) their peripheral geographical locations
• D) their lack of a Protestant ethic

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