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The Development of Underdevelopment
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We cannot hope to formulate adequate development theory and policy for the majority of the world's population who suffer from underdevelopment without first learning how their past economic and social history gave rise to their present underdevelopment. Yet most historians study only the developed metropolitan countries and pay scant attention to the colonial and underdeveloped lands. For this reason most of our theoretical categories and guides to development policy have been distilled exclusively from the historical experience of the European and North American advanced capitalist nations.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gunder Frank, A.
- Venue
- Monthly Review
- Publisher
- Monthly Review Foundation
- Published
- 1966-09-02
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 17
- ISSN
- 0027-0520 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2040057718
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- 1,781
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- FWCI
- 17.58
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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