The Contextual Effect of Dependency on Economic Growth and Sectoral Inequality: A Cross-National Study Toward an Integration of Internal and External Factors in Third World Development

Internal causes of national underdevelopment drawn from contending arguments are not necessarily contradictory of, but rather complementary to, the external causes of underdevelopment highlighted by the dependency/world-system theory. These internal causes could be integrated into quantitative studies as contextual effects to clarify the current confusion in cross-national findings. This study considers four internal causal factors argued by contending theories in addition to the external factor emphasized by dependency/world-system theory in an analysis of economic development. Interaction effects between internal and external factors are investigated. The four internal factors considered are the level of available human resources, the level of available natural resources, the level of domestic capital formation, and the strength of the state. The one external factor is the level of dependency. A longitudinal research design is adopted. The dependent variables of economic growth and sectoral inequality are observed at two time points, and the ratio and the difference of them are calculated to be examined separately. Analyses are based on cross-national data for the years of 1965 and 1975; they include a maximum of 155 nations.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Lew, Seok-Choon

• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8701548

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71015