Sanderson and Alderson Claim That the Economic Development Experienced by Taiwan

question 82

Multiple Choice

Sanderson and Alderson claim that the economic development experienced by Taiwan and South Korea in recent decades:

• A) suggests that there is a fundamental flaw in radical theories of underdevelopment
• B) can be explained in terms of soft dependency theory or world-system theory
• C) can be explained only by modernization theory

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