Exam 9: Economic Development and Underdevelopment

George Ayittey blames the current problems of sub-Saharan African societies primarily on their internal characteristics. Which of these does he emphasize most strongly?

According to Samir Amin:

Latin American countries had gained their political independence by:

Sanderson and Alderson argue that we still lack the unified theory of underdevelopment that we need.

According to the modernization theorists, underdevelopment results from:

Andre Gunder Frank's classic concept of the "development of underdevelopment" suggests that:

Africa is currently in a state of , and its future looks :

Modernization theorists frequently identify which of the following as causes of underdevelopment?

World-system and dependency theorists blame Africa's low level of economic development on:

The relatively low levels of democratization in most Third World societies can be explained in terms of the in many of these societies:

Underdeveloped countries have considerably higher rates of population growth than those of the developed countries.

According to Sanderson and Alderson, modernization theory's concept of "traditional society" is:

Discuss the world-system theory of underdevelopment and how it is both similar to and different from dependency theory. What does world-system theory say about the prospects for development of underdeveloped nations?

Samir Amin argues that foreign economic domination creates and perpetuates underdevelopment because it:

Sanderson and Alderson discuss three historic forms of dependency since the beginnings of capitalism. These are:

According to Sanderson and Alderson, dependency and world-system theories do a fairly good job of explaining global patterns of unequal economic development over the past few centuries, but they are less effective in accounting for the development prospects of less-developed countries since the 1960s.

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

Compared to the developed nations, the underdeveloped countries have:

Since 1978, China has not been very successful in privatizating its state-owned firms.

Latin American countries have been characterized by the type of state that Guillermo O'Donnell has called: