EXTERNAL CAUSES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT

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EXTERNAL CAUSES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT

COLONIALISM

Causes

Destroyed local economic structures

Favoured single-crop economies to produce raw materials

When

Nineteenth and twentieth century colonialism

UNBALANCED DEVELOPMENT

Land

Badly distributed

Underdeveloped countries posses very little industry

Most of the plantations owned by rich local families or multinationals

Land is cultivated using imported technollogy

Production for importation

Strategy

Buy raw materials cheaply and sell their manufactures at a high price

Resulted in

International division of labour

Cause

Poor countries grow progresively poorer