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What is Dependency
Generally dependency is the reliance on a person, or something for support, survival or enhancement In development studies dependency speaks to a situation in which a particular country or region relies on another for support, survival and growth.
Features contd
The capitist system operates where peripheries/Satellites provide raw material for the Core/Metrpole countries who manufacture and sells it. Thus the basis of dependency and Underdevelopment
Immanuel Wallerstien
Ideas: The existence of a total system or network driven by the endless accumulation of profits the perpetual and widening inequity among states is explained by capitalism and the international division of labour and the production (Kegley 2006, 141) The International division of labour leads to the development of countries as core, periphery and semi-periphery
Assumption of Dependency
In general, the theory of dependency holds that both political and economic dependency are inversely and significantly related to economic prosperity, that is the more dependent countries are also less prosperous (Craig, 1996 thesis) In order for these backward countries to development they must disassociate themselves from all relations with the First World.
Criticism of Dependency
See economic growth as the main component of development Maintain the idea that Tradition is the main obstacle to development If Western colonialism and Imperialism is the main reason for underdevelopment in the Third World, What aboout China, Ethopia were colonies of western Europe and are developed. Impractical ideas: If Third World Countries totally dissociate themselves from First they will not gain development. The relationship between Third world and First World is not dependent but interdependent. Globalization Undermines the ability of the States to charter development: (Russia and Germany) Does not explain the relevance of the Situation of the New International Division of Labour.