Dependency and Underdevelopment in Black Africa: an Empirical Test
- 1 June 1977
- journal article
- africana
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Modern African Studies
- Vol. 15 (4) , 613-630
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00002251
Abstract
In the literature of both comparative politics and international relations there exist two broad theoretical orientations towards the concept of development: capitalist and Marxist or neo-Marxist. The first emphasises the nation as the basic unit of analysis, and assumes that development is a matter of accepting and implementing western forms of political and economic organisation, and of the masses internalising ‘modern’ attitudes and values.1 The second identifies world capitalism as the key unit of analysis, and is convinced that underdevelopment is both created and maintained by this international economic system.2Keywords
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