Underdevelopment Is Best Defined As

question 17

Multiple Choice

Underdevelopment is best defined as:

• A) a term used to suggest that poor countries are poor as a result of their relationship to an unbalanced global economic system.
• B) a theory that predicts that former colonies would progress along the same lines as the industrialized nations.
• C) a strategy by which wealthy nations would spur global economic growth by alleviating poverty by investing in former colonies.
• D) a critique that argued that despite the end of colonialism, the underlying economic relations in the global economy had not changed.
• E) a continued pattern of unequal economic relations despite the formal end of colonial political and military control.

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Definitions:

Indirect Expense

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Building

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Income Statement

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Gross Margin

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