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| | Neo-Marxist Dependency Theories |
 | | However, scholars from countries targeted by this Modernization School of development started to develop their own theories, partly as a result of 'sub-optimal' results of policies based on the modernization theories, as well as concluding that imperialism in general "has actively underdeveloped the peripheral societies" (Martinussen, 1997:86) they are living in. |
 | | In contrast with Baran, Frank's main thesis in identifying the causes of underdevelopment, or: the development of underdevelopment, is the notion of metropoles and satellites, where metropoles are the target of merchant capital and the satellites' existence purely for 'feeding' the requirements of the metropoles. |
 | | The reason why I decided to use Cuba as a case study in relation to aforementioned dependency theories is that Cuba managed to defy most, of not all, conventional ideas around development and dependency during the last 10 years. |
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