Categorias: Todos - colonialism - land - strategy - labour

por Uxue Okina 12 anos atrás

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EXTERNAL CAUSES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT

The phenomenon of underdevelopment is significantly influenced by external factors such as colonialism and skewed economic strategies. Colonialism in the 19th and 20th centuries dismantled local economic structures and promoted single-crop economies, leading to dependency on raw material exports.

EXTERNAL CAUSES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT

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