Economic Dependency And Third World Under Development. Nigerian Experience

ABSTRACT This  study examines the relationship between the  third world countries and the western capitalist countries.  It shows dependency as a phenomenon or problem of relationship that gave rise to the economic growth and development  of the western world in expense of the third world societies which are economically underdeveloped, and lack  the capacity and ability to control the economic system or productive processes of the societies. In our attempt to analyze and address this problem we used dependency theory for the analytical framework while documentary research method was employed …