According to the Author, What Conditions Led to the Emergence

question 29

Multiple Choice

According to the author, what conditions led to the emergence of dependency theory?

• A) African scholars argued that industrialized countries were using the land and rain in East Africa to grow crops for export.
• B) Anthropologists observed that inadequate natural resources made former colonies across the globe dependent on help from industrialized nations.
• C) Latin American scholars observed that the global economy was structured to extract resources from less developed nations and transfer them to industrialized nations.
• D) European scholars argued that flows of migrants from the global North to the global South made Europe dependent on immigrants as a labor source.
• E) Former colonies became self-sufficient and did not experience underdevelopment.

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