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Dependency Theory

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Dependency theory explains global inequality as a relationship rather than a stage, holding that wealthy nations became wealthy partly through extraction from poorer ones.

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Trade terms and resource ownership set during colonial rule persisted after formal independence.

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Per this course's neutrality convention, both theories are presented at their strongest and neither is adjudicated.