Understanding Third World Politics

The state, it was argued, had become subservient to the multinational com- panies that controlled the industrialization process. ...

and appropriates it for its own economic development. The satellite remains underdeveloped for lack of access to their own surpl ...

development, making it more difficult for industrialization and sustained development to take place. Industrialization did not p ...

peculiar to poor countries and weak economies. The UK economy is dependent on the American economy in terms of foreign investmen ...

production produces a very different kind of dependency to that which exists when advanced economies are dependent on one anothe ...

Changes in the relative power position of different élites and classes were expressed through the accumulation process, requirin ...

assimilation (Warren, 1973, 1980). Elsewhere development could be said to require more, not less, foreign capital (Emmanuel, 197 ...

the conclusion that independence had not improved the prospects for economic development, and especially industrialization, in t ...

The import of technology had also constituted a net gain to developing countries. Its assimilation via the industrialization pro ...

local shareholding and investment in manufacturing enterprises: ‘all have been strengthened and their advance accelerated by del ...

indicating that Third World economies still exhibited the neo-colonial distor- tion (Petras, 1981, pp. 118–24). In all regions o ...

The range of experiences of different class-based regimes was not assessed by Warren. Independence has not itself achieved devel ...

It has also been shown that an increasing share of manufacturing in total production merely reflects declining production in the ...

domestic economy. Third World states had shown themselves capable of taking controlling action against foreign firms located in ...

a public property-directing state apparatus, particularly the bureaucracy. Conditions increasingly existed for the formation of ...

emerging from a Latin American haciendafind their way into other parts of the international economy does not mean that they were ...

according to dependency theory, it could not. He argues against assuming a priorithat an independent local capitalist class cann ...

micro-level (Higgott, 1983; Leys, 1996, pp. 48–51). It is too static and unhistorical to explain successfully the distinctive el ...

Dependency theory’s argument is that in the core economies cultural, legal and political institutions are the product of indigen ...

wisdom that economic development in Latin America is inevitably consis- tent with US interests (Ray, 1973, p. 6). Its ‘militant ...