Dependency School in Latin America

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What perspective does the dependency school represent?

  • A Marxist perspective
  • A First World perspective
  • A Third World perspective (correct)
  • A modernization perspective

What led to the rise of the dependency school in Latin America in the 1960s?

  • The rise of populist regimes
  • The influence of American modernization theory
  • The failure of the ECLA program and economic stagnation (correct)
  • The success of the ECLA developmental strategy

What was the primary goal of the ECLA developmental strategy?

  • Industrialization through import substitution (correct)
  • Free trade and economic liberalization
  • State-led economic planning
  • Agricultural development

What was the outcome of the brief economic expansion in the 1950s in Latin America?

<p>Economic stagnation and crisis (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the reaction of many Latin American researchers to the ECLA program and American modernization school?

<p>Disillusionment and disappointment (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was another factor that contributed to the rise of the dependency school?

<p>The crisis of orthodox Marxism in Latin America (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the traditional orthodox communist viewpoint on Latin American countries?

<p>They had to go through a stage of bourgeois industrial revolution. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was a significant turning point in the dependency school of thought?

<p>The Chinese Revolution in 1949 and the Cuban Revolution in the late 1950s. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who was instrumental in disseminating the ideas of the dependency school to the English-speaking world?

<p>Andre Gunder Frank (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the reception of the dependency school in the United States in the late 1960s?

<p>It received a warm welcome. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main criticism of the international division of labor by Raúl Prebisch?

<p>It led to a deterioration of Latin America's terms of trade. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the initial response of Latin American governments to the ECLA strategy in the 1950s?

<p>They resisted it and refused to implement reforms. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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